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... The International Seminar on "Climate change and its social and environmental repercussions" (“Alterações Climáticas e suas repercussões ... See full document

... is its second most populous. Its vegetation is conditioned by its dry climate, which predominates during the winter and is renewed with summer ...rains. Its vegetation composes ... See full document

... – Climate change – between costs and benefits. At global and regional levels the effects of climate change start to show ...effects and to find solutions, others are ... See full document

... predictable and concrete risks of climate changes, given that, although everyone is subject to the risks, they end up charging a higher price from certain classes of the population than others because of ... See full document

... immorality, and as a result social institutions are set up to work within the ...conservative and inefficient as was clearly observed in Rio+20. Environmental governance deficit is a ... See full document

... is its second most populous. Its vegetation is conditioned by its dry climate, which predominates during the winter and is renewed with summer ...rains. Its vegetation composes ... See full document

... parks) and blue infrastructures ...functions and offer multiple benefits if its ecosystems are in a healthy state (EC, ...be environmental (such as conserving biodiversity or adapting to ... See full document

... The high degree of uncertainty of the anoma- lies among the models of some climate variables is an- other important aspect. For example, precipitation pre- dictions of the GCMs are generally more uncertain than ... See full document

... -122ºF) of difference between summer and winter. This fluctuation causes the cracking of the stone that falls down by gravity. Nevertheless these are not the only elements involved in this process, but they come ... See full document

... producer, and the crop is cultivated throughout the ...1970's, and the crop was limited to southern ...breeding and management ...major change in the climate experienced by the plants, ... See full document

... knowledge and behavioral change to address climate change, and there is indication that behavioral engagement can occur in the absence of a complete understanding of the problem, ... See full document

... activist and private sphere behaviours (Stern, 2000) – in terms of competence and warmth (see Bertoldo, ...radical social change behind activist behaviours makes them regarded as less ... See full document

... on Climate Change (UNFCCC) takes place in Paris (30/11 to ...binding and universally accepted post-Kyoto emissions reduction framework beyond 2020 in the hope of keeping global temperature increase ... See full document

... to climate impacts on ecosystems, the degree of severity of the early-mid Holocene dry phase in western Amazonia is an important ...temperature and rainfall changes during the Holocene 3 . The temperature ... See full document

... dance and structure of the populations, as well as on habitat and water quality characterization (Geist, ...scarcer and that studies projecting future sce- narios are even ...global climate ... See full document

... Numa abordagem transformativa, preconiza-se que se caminhe para além da compreensão da arte em contextos interculturais, implicando-se no estudo e na criação artística como forma de intervenção e acção social. ... See full document

... A fotocatálise heterogênea apresenta grande potencial de aplicação como método de descontaminação tanto em fase aquosa como gasosa considerando vários fatores que vão desde sua eficiênci[r] ... See full document

... regarding environmental patents, in general, the variables re- lated to sustainable technology transfer have a positive effect on eco- nomic ...that climate change in recent decades is evidence of the ... See full document

... terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and are strongly dependent on the water ...of climate change. Mangroves and floodplain ecosystems are some of the most important environments for the ... See full document

... management, and also considering, where applicable, the appropriate Kc for the prevailing crop ...coefficients and ground cover reduction coefficients used by ISAREG to estimate the annual irrigation ... See full document