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The Role of Electric Vehicles in Reducing Climate Impact: Swedish Public Debate 2010–2018 电动汽车在减少气候影响中的作用:瑞典公众辩论2010-2018

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/cgp/v11i03/1-13

L. Olsson

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引用次数: 2

Climate Change and Farmers’ Coping Strategies in the Upper East Region of Ghana 加纳上东部地区气候变化与农民应对策略

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/cgp/v11i04/1-13

Mohammed Gali Nuhu, K. Matsui

引用次数: 3

Coverage of Climate Change: Graduate Students’ Climate Change Policy Awareness and Assessment of Ghanaian Media 气候变化报道:加纳媒体研究生气候变化政策意识与评估

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/cgp/v11i03/35-52

T. D. Adjin-Tettey

引用次数: 1

The Climate Change Mitigation Potential of Electric Vehicles as a Function of Renewable Energy 基于可再生能源的电动汽车减缓气候变化的潜力

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/V11I01/15-24

Ryan Cornell

引用次数: 4

Indo-Pacific Grand Strategy: Power Politics and Sustainable Development 印太大战略:强权政治与可持续发展

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/V11I02/1-20

B. DeDominicis

引用次数: 0

Participatory Agroecological Assessment of Farmers’ Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change in Malawi 马拉维农民适应气候变化能力的参与式农业生态评估

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/V11I03/15-33

D. Bardati

引用次数: 4

Associations between changing climate and body condition over decades in two southern hemisphere passerine birds 几十年来南半球两种雀形目鸟类的气候变化与身体状况之间的关系

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2018-12-01 DOI: 10.1186/s40665-018-0038-y

J. Gardner, E. Rowley, Perry de Rebeira, Alma de Rebeira, L. Brouwer

引用次数: 22

Vulnerability Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Critical Oil/Gas Infrastructure: A Decision-Maker’s Perception in the Niger Delta 气候变化对关键油气基础设施影响的脆弱性评估:尼日尔三角洲决策者的看法

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2018-11-14 DOI: 10.18848/1835-7156/CGP/V10I04/25-39

J. Udie, S. Bhattacharyya, L. Ozawa-Meida

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引用次数: 2

Sensitivity analysis of a climate vulnerability index - a case study from Indian watershed development programmes 气候脆弱性指数的敏感性分析——一个来自印度流域发展项目的案例研究

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2018-01-26 DOI: 10.1186/s40665-018-0037-z

Archana Raghavan Sathyan, C. Funk, T. Aenis, P. Winker, L. Breuer

引用次数: 18

Impacts of a millennium drought on butterfly faunal dynamics 千年干旱对蝴蝶区系动态的影响

International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses Pub Date : 2018-01-04 DOI: 10.1186/s40665-018-0039-x

M. Forister, J. Fordyce, C. Nice, J. Thorne, D. Waetjen, A. Shapiro

引用次数: 27