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Intense climate-related disasters - floods, storms, droughts, and heat waves - have been on the rise worldwide. At the … side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … population exposure, greater population vulnerability, and increasing climate-related hazards - behind the increased frequency of …
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This paper is about excessive overuse of resources and about serious environmental impacts, and the need for a global ecological turnaround. Ideas about a social contract for sustainability are being discussed, and examples given of resource decoupling and impact decoupling. Global environmental...
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The Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research (EDGAR) provides technology based global anthropogenic emissions data of greenhouse gases and air pollutants by country and sector on a 0.1° x 0.1° spatial grid, on a timeline that ranges from 1970 to present days. As part of the...
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