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Defra, UK - Environmental Protection - Consultations
CO 2 equivalence. Similar methods forming composite indicators waste water found DETR guidelines impacts. Proxy indicators There areas impact agreed composite methods measurement exist. In cases, necessary choose proxy indicator, felt give good 'rule thumb' measurement ...
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Technical Notes on the Reefs at Risk Caribbean Threat Analysis
Model rules were developed to build proxy indicators of threat level for these stressors. This process involved the development of distance-based ... not evaluated, as these are rare in the Caribbean region. -Local overfishing pressure captured in proxy indicator (based on human population per unit of coastal shelf area), due to lack of ...
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Global Climate Change Student Guide
Climate Climate Modelling Palaeoclimatic Change Contemporary Climate Change Epilogue Appendix References 6.1. Introduction The last chapter examined episodes of past (palaeo) climate change reconstructed from proxy indicators. Since the late seventeenth century, and more commonly since the nineteenth century, instrumental records (section 3.2) have been kept that document more recent climate ...
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Publications list for Briffa, K.R
Climate Impacts: The Last 1000 Years. Kluwer/Plenum, 295pp (keywords: climate change impacts historical proxy datasets reconstruction) Jones, P.D., Ogilvie, A.E.J., Davies, T.D. and Briffa, K ... rings methodology) Jones, P.D. and Briffa, K.R., 2000 Temperature trends from instrumental and proxy indicators for the last millennium. In: Proc. 1st Solar & Space Weather Euroconference, 'The Solar Cycle ...
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(Mann et al., 2003b). A review of six independent reconstructions of northern ... 15), 1820-1823. McIntyre, S. and McKitrick, R. (2003). Corrections to the Mann et al (1998) proxy database and northern hemisphere average temperature series. Energy and Environment, 14(6), 751-771. NOAA ( ...
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UN Millennium Project | Indicators
Indicators 6. Net enrolment ratio in primary education (UNESCO) 7. Proportion of pupils starting grade 1 ... calculate the indicator as defined above, UNICEF, in collaboration with UNAIDS and WHO, produced two proxy indicators that represent two components of the actual indicator. They are the following: (a) percentage ...
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Pollution Management: Indicators of Pollution Management
This may lead to trade-offs between the information content of various indicators and the cost of collecting them. These trade-offs will obviously vary across technologies and ... production and consumption can be used as a proxy. Table 1 provides several examples of pressure indicators for global environmental problems; no state indicators are provided, since it is unrealistic to ...
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CRU Information Sheet no. 4: Indicators of climate change in the UK
This indicators chief interest is as a cultural symbol of a crop that is believed to have flourished in the warmer climate of Roman Britain and which represents a proxy indicator for ... to reproduce the data on robin egg-laying dates. Related sites British Trust for Ornithology Indicators of Sustainable Development for the United Kingdom, maintained by the Department of the Environment, Transport ...
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News Clippings of the Environmental Sciences Dept, UVA
Nio Climate experts led by Brad Adams of the University of Virginia looked at so-called geological indicators dust preserved in polar ice cores as well as tree rings and coral growth that reflect ... co-authors was Michael Mann of the University of Virginia, whose landmark compilation of thousands of "proxy" indicators led to the conclusion that the last two decades have been unusually warm and to ...
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FAO:AG21:Magazine:Spotlight:Food security in Ethiopia
HIV/AIDS and nutrition Although no reliable information existed on the extent of HIV/AIDS in the project area, proxy-indicators - such as incidence of tuberculosis - suggest prevalence rates of 6 to 7 percent. The project found little awareness among rural people of the linkages between nutrition, diet and HIV/AIDS mitigation. In southern Tigray, where ...
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