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We investigate projected 2000–2050 changes in concentrations of aerosols in China and the associated transboundary aerosol transport by using the chemical transport model GEOS-Chem driven by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) general circulation model (GCM) 3 at 4× 5 resolution. Future changes in climate and emissions projected by the IPCC A1B scenario are imposed separately and tog...

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Joel Cohen was asked by the conference organizers to focus a critical eye on demographic projections and to give special attention to the outlook for the elderly and for total dependency ratios. He was very faithful to his assignment. I have only a few points to raise about his paper before going on to discuss one issue that he did not cover (and was not asked to cover) but that I think should ...

نخستین گام در راستای تحلیل و ارزیابی ریسک‌های زنجیره تأمین شناسایی این ریسک‌ها است. روش‌های مرسوم بر اساس فیلترهای دستی یا خودکار داده‌­محور ارائه شده فیلتر به‌­دلیل محدودیت‌های نمونه‌گیری دارای مشکلات اعتبارسنجی هستند از طرف دیگر مبتنی داده، داده‌های ریسک که پیچیده مبهم هستند، عملکرد ضعیفی دارند. برای پرکرده خلل پژوهشی، پژوهش، چارچوبی تعاملی بین تحلیل‌­گر ماشین حجم وسیعی حوزه مواد غذایی با است...

[1] This paper presents estimates for global N and P emissions from sewage for the period 1970–2050 for the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment scenarios. Using country-specific projections for population and economic growth, urbanization, development of sewage systems, and wastewater treatment installations, a rapid increase in global sewage emissions is predicted, from 6.4 Tg of N and 1.3 Tg...

Biodiversity is of crucial importance for ecosystem functioning and human well-being. Using quantitative projections of changes in land use and climate from the four Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) scenarios, we project that reduction of habitat by year 2050 will result in a loss of global vascular plant diversity ranging from 7–24% relative to 1995, after populations have reached equilibr...

According to the latest forecasts of the INSEE - Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques (National Statistics and Economic Studies Institute), ageing of the French population will increase between 2005 and 2050: whereas 20.8% of the population living in continental France reached the age of 60 years or more in 2005, this proportion would be of 30.6% in 2035 and 31.9% in 20...