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Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research
This paper discusses the role and relevance of the shared socioeconomic pathways (SSPs) and the new scenarios that combine SSPs with representative concentration pathways (RCPs) for climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability (IAV) research. It first provides an overview of uses of social–environmental scenarios in IAV studies and identifies the main shortcomings of earlier such scenarios. Second, the paper elaborates on two aspects of the SSPs and new scenarios that would improve their usefulness for IAV studies compared to earlier scenario sets: (i) enhancing their applicability while retaining coherence across spatial scales, and (ii) adding indicators of importance for projecting vulnerability. The paper therefore presents an agenda for future research, recommending that SSPs incorporate not only the standard variables of population and gross domestic product, but also indicators such as income distribution, spatial population, human health and governance
Enhancing the relevance of Shared Socioeconomic Pathways for climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability research
In my fathers study
Orlove B. Ben Orlove: Die Erfindung meines Vaters. Bibliothek der Erinnerung. Vol 11 Aus dem Amerikan. u. mit einem Nachwort versehen. Körte M, tran. Berlin: Metropol; 2003
Tomar la bandera : punch et politique au Sud du Pérou
Au Pérou, dans la ville de Sicuani, département de Cuzco, se déroule un événement culturel inhabituel dans la société contemporaine latino-américaine. Tomar la bandera, qui signifie « boire le drapeau » sont les termes par lesquels les habitants de l’endroit désignent ce phénomène. Il consiste à boire successivement trois verres de punch, sirop parfumé dilué dans de l’eau chaude à laquelle on a ajouté une tombée d’alcool de canne. Le premier et le dernier verres sont de couleur rouge, le deux..
Lines in the water: nature and culture at Lake Titicaca
This beautifully written book weaves reflections on anthropological fieldwork together with evocative meditations on a spectacular landscape as it takes us to the remote indigenous villages on the shore of Lake Titicaca, high in the Peruvian Andes. Ben Orlove brings alive the fishermen, reed cutters, boat builders, and families of this isolated region, and describes the role that Lake Titicaca has played in their culture. He describes the landscapes and rhythms of life in the Andean highlands as he considers the intrusions of modern technology and economic demands in the region. Lines in the Water tells a local version of events that are taking place around the world, but with an unusual outcome: people here have found ways to maintain their cultural autonomy and to protect their fragile mountain environment. The Peruvian highlanders have confronted the pressures of modern culture with remarkable vitality. They use improved boats and gear and sell fish to new markets but have fiercely opposed efforts to strip them of their indigenous traditions. They have retained their customary practice of limiting the amount of fishing and have continued to pass cultural knowledge from one generation to the next--practices that have prevented the ecological crises that have followed commercialization of small-scale fisheries around the world. This book--at once a memoir and an ethnography--is a personal and compelling account of a research experience as well as an elegantly written treatise on themes of global importance. Above all, Orlove reminds us that human relations with the environment, though constantly changing, can be sustainable
Poverty and Peasantry in Peru's Southern Andes, 1963–90. By R. F. Walters. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1994. Pp. xviii, 366. $75.00.
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The Application of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts Based on El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events: Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe
In this paper we present case studies of the efforts of five nations, Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe, to use climate forecasts based on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system to plan in advance of anticipated anomalous climatic states. We treat the variable use of climate forecasts among these nations as a problem of “fit” between the nature of ENSO, a persistent variability in the ocean–atmosphere system of the tropical Pacific which produces climate variability at local and regional scales around the world, and the human institutions and actors that make and use the forecasts. Our examination of patterns of use of forecasts indicates constraints and suggests opportunities for the useful application of climate forecasts in the future
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The Application of Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts Based on El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events: Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe
In this paper we present case studies of the efforts of five nations, Australia, Brazil, Ethiopia, Peru, and Zimbabwe, to use climate forecasts based on the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) system to plan in advance of anticipated anomalous climatic states. We treat the variable use of climate forecasts among these nations as a problem of “fit” between the nature of ENSO, a persistent variability in the ocean–atmosphere system of the tropical Pacific which produces climate variability at local and regional scales around the world, and the human institutions and actors that make and use the forecasts. Our examination of patterns of use of forecasts indicates constraints and suggests opportunities for the useful application of climate forecasts in the future
CapĂtulo 2. Sistemas de barbecho sectorial
INTRODUCCIĂ“N La chaquitaclla, como vimos en el capĂtulo precedente, es una herramienta concebida para roturar el pastizal luego de varios años de descanso pastoreado, en el barbecho sectorial de altura. La pregunta de “¿por quĂ© los campesinos se sirven todavĂa de esta herramienta?” remite, lĂłgicamente, a estas otras: ÂżPorquĂ© el barbecho sectorial? ÂżPara quĂ© sirve el largo descanso pastoreado? ÂżPor quĂ© no separar en el espacio los terrenos que se cultivan todos los años, donde la labranza sea ..
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