Many aspects of human societies, such as food production, water availability and management, health, energy production and consumption etc., depend critically on climate variability and change. While some countries have the resources and infrastructure necessary to respond to the variability of climate, others are more vulnerable, to the point that large climate anomalies and extremes can cause...

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to provide an authoritative international statement of scientific understanding of climate change. The IPCC’s periodic assessments of the causes, impacts and possible response strategies to climate change are the most comprehensive and up-...

Fresh waters are particularly vulnerable to climate change because (i) many species within these fragmented habitats have limited abilities to disperse as the environment changes; (ii) water temperature and availability are climate-dependent; and (iii) many systems are already exposed to numerous anthropogenic stressors. Most climate change studies to date have focused on individuals or species...

In the absence of clearly established procedures in the workplace, employees will experience a negative affective state. This situation influences their well-being and their intention to behave in ways that benefit the organization beyond their job demands. This impact is more relevant on teamwork where members share the perception of ambiguity through emotional contagion (role ambiguity climat...

Several studies have demonstrated the effect of an organization's culture and climate on the delivery of services to clients and the success of clinical outcomes. Workers' perceptions are integral components of organizational social context, and in order to create a positive organizational culture and climate, managers and frontline staff need to have a shared understanding of the social contex...

The potential impacts of climate change are of great practical concern to those interested in coastal wetland resources. Among the areas of greatest risk in the United States are low-lying coastal habitats with easily eroded substrates which occur along the northern Gulf of Mexico and southeast Atlantic coasts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the World Meteorological Or...

1Program For Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA USA 2Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Australia 3Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis, Victoria, Canada 4Center for Climate System Research, Tokyo, Japan 5Centre Européen de Recherche et de Formation Avancée en Calcul Scientifique, Toulouse, France 6Comm...

In 2007, Val Rachlis, then President of the Ontario College of Family Physicians, challenged organization members in his biweekly communication to consider climate change as a health issue that deserved the attention of Canadian family physicians.1 Responses to his essay included a report on the health effects of climate change2 and a brochure on green solutions in the doctor’s office.3 In this...