In the Mediterranean region, the widely predicted rise in temperature, change in the precipitation pattern, and increase in the frequency of extreme climatic events are expected to alter the shape of ecological communities and to affect plant physiological processes that regulate ecosystem functioning. Although change in the mean values are important, there is increasing evidence that plant dis...

Purpose This paper aims to address a gap in investigating specific impacts of climate change on mental health the Pacific region, region prone extreme events. reports study connections between change, public health, weather and events (EWEs), livelihoods focusing Islands countries. Design/methodology/approach deploys two main methods. The first is bibliometric analysis understand state literatu...

Long-standing meteorological research has established that anthropogenic climate change increases the risk and intensity of extreme weather events, such as tropical cyclones, floods, forest fires. However, comparatively little is known about impact events on policy ambition. Studies topic emerged only recently tend to focus individual country cases. A comprehensive cross-country perspective sti...

Australian water systems face a host of threats under climatic change derived from the predicted increase in extreme events. This has been exemplified in the South-East Queensland region, where drought and high volume precipitation events have led to negative social and economic impacts over the last decade. These events, and how they were initially responded to, can provide information and enh...

Epidemiological investigation of the impact of climate change on human health, particularly chronic diseases, is hindered by the lack of exposure metrics that can be used as a marker of climate change that are compatible with health data. Here, we present a surrogate exposure metric created using a 30-year baseline (1960-1989) that allows users to quantify long-term changes in exposure to frequ...

T he ultimate objective of the climate convention and of related instruments like the Kyoto protocol is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to a level that avoids dangerous climate change. In order to considerably reduce risks of climate change, the European Union already decided a climate protection target: to prevent global surface temperature to increase more than 2°C (Celsius) compared to pr...

Extreme weather events are likely to occur more often under climate change and the resulting effects on ecosystems could lead to a further acceleration of climate change. But not all extreme weather events lead to extreme ecosystem response. Here, we focus on hazardous ecosystem behaviour and identify coinciding weather conditions. We use a simple probabilistic risk assessment based on time ser...