Browsing by Subject "Climate Change"
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(The Journal of Creative Library Practice, 2019-12-15)In 2016, the Bryan + College Station Public Library System received a $1,000 grant to conduct informal STEM programs for adults. The library’s stated goals were to encourage lifelong learning and civic engagement through ...
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(2021-05-06)Global climate change poses an imminent risk for humanity in the form of greater food insecurity, higher incidence of extreme weather events, and a severe loss of biodiversity. The increase in global mean temperature is ...
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(2022-04-19)It is estimated that the Arctic contains half of the global soil carbon pool, and climate warming will lead to considerable degradation of permafrost. This degradation may lead to the expansion or drainage of Arctic ...
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(2020-07-31)Land use and climate change are major anthropogenic threats to biodiversity. In the tropics, over 70% of land is in some form of agricultural matrix. Amphibians are the most threatened vertebrate class. Colombia, a megadiverse ...
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(2014-07-25)This dissertation investigates the agricultural impacts of climate change in three ways addressing water implications of mitigation strategies, feedlot livestock productivity vulnerability induced by climate change and ...
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(2011-08-08)In the past two decades, scientific evidence has predicted a significant change in the earth’s climatic atmosphere. Although there are many studies that demonstrate changes in the atmospheric temperatures, there are few ...
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(2011-10-21)In 2003, the U.S. Department of Energy created regional joint governmentindustry partnerships as part of a larger incentive to develop carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) technologies to address the issue of climate ...
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(2020-04-23)Infrastructure interdependencies have significant impacts on the recovery of community sectors in the post-disaster period. The focus of this research is to identify critical community sectors and to understand how the ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)This dissertation analyzes the basis for and magnitudes of discount factors based on the characteristics of greenhouse gas emission (GHGE) offsets that are applied to the GHGE reduction projects, concentrating on agricultural ...
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(2010-01-14)The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) changes on tropical coupled ocean-atmosphere system via oceanic and atmospheric processes. A suite of numerical ...
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(2016-08-24)Because extreme precipitation poses a potential threat to local water resource systems, this study predicts and analyzes future precipitation in the Houston area. The Modified Bartlett-Lewis Rectangular Pulse (MBLRP) model ...
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(2016-11-30)Agricultural technological progress is a key factor in our ability to meet future demand growth for consumers and biofuel usage. This study investigates the consequences of agricultural technological progress, biofuel ...
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(2012-02-14)The variation of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twenty-first century is explored using an ocean reanalysis. Decadal variability and trends in the ...
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(2020-04-23)South Korea plans to expand imports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) to mitigate air pollution and climate change. This study assesses the environmental and economic implications of importing U.S. LNG for electricity ...
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(2013-05-20)This dissertation consists of three essays wherein tools of financial econometrics are used to study the three aspects of farmland valuation puzzle: short-term boom-bust cycles, overpricing of farmland, and inconclusive ...
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(2012-12-05)Climate factors like precipitation and temperature, being closely intertwined with agriculture, make a changing climate a big concern for the entire human race and its basic survival. Adaptation to climate is a long-running ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation investigates: (1) the climate change effects on the mean and higher order moments of crop yield distributions; (2) the effects of irrigation with and without its interactive terms with climate variables; ...
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(2010-07-14)In this dissertation, I study the effects of climate change on agricultural total factor productivity and crop yields and their variability. In addition, an examination was conducted on the value of select climate change ...
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This project covers the impacts of climate change on the West African Monsoon system using observations and simulations from a set of climate models. We focus on three variables that characterize the wet season: date of ...
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(2013-07-02)The interplay between convective processes and the stabilizing effects of largescale systems remains debated, especially for warmer climates. We study sets of simulations of past and present climates in which carbon dioxide ...