Climate change adaptation presents a challenge to current top-down governance structures, including the tension between provision of public goods and actions required by diverse stakeholders, including private actors. Alternative governance approaches that facilitate participation and learning across scales are gaining attention for their ability to bring together diverse actors across sectors ...

11 Large biases associated with climate projections are problematic when it comes to 12 their regional application in the assessment of water resources and ecosystems. Here, we 13 demonstrate a method that can reduce systematic biases in regional climate projections. 14 The global and regional climate models employed to demonstrate this technique are the 15 Community Climate System Model (CCSM)...

The purpose of this report is to explore useful metrics needed for estimating the short-term (20-30 years) and long-term (80-100 years) impacts of climate change on agriculture, both in monetary and non-monetary terms, helping decision–makers evaluate, at regional to national levels, which adaptation strategies and policy options potentially minimize risk and maximize benefits under changed cli...

Climate change affects agriculture differently due to the heterogeneity in bio-physical and economic conditions in Austria. Therefore, stakeholder and expert knowledge is required in regional vulnerability assessments to address region specific challenges and develop compatible adaptation strategies. In a transdisciplinary research project, a working group consisting of regional stakeholders an...

Climate and tourism are strong correlated. Urban areas have a relevance concerning not only to cultural tourism but also for recreation. The high discussed topic of global change is focused in the tourism climatology as well. We analyzed exemplarily the climate potential and its variation of Freiburg. The analysis is based on the simulations of the regional climate models REMO and CLM for the A...

The grapevine (Vitis vinifera) is widely cultivated for the production of wine and other commodities. Wine globally traded, with an annual market value approximately USD 4 billion in Portugal alone. However, climate change expected to profoundly alter regional temperature precipitation regimes across Iberian Peninsula and, thus, continental Portugal, potentially threatening impact viticulture. ...

The effects of climate change on biodiversity should depend in part on climate displacement rate (climate-change velocity) and its interaction with species' capacity to migrate. We estimated Late Quaternary glacial-interglacial climate-change velocity by integrating macroclimatic shifts since the Last Glacial Maximum with topoclimatic gradients. Globally, areas with high velocities were associa...

The impact that changes in future climate, anthropogenic U.S. emissions, background tropospheric composition, and land-use have on regional U.S. ozone and PM2.5 concentrations is examined through a matrix of downscaled regional air quality simulations using the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model. Projected regional scale changes in meteorology due to climate change under the Intergo...