Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Climatic changes – Political aspects – China'
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Li, Qinglan, and 李晴岚. "Statistical and numerical studies of urbanization influence and climate change in South China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45791041.
Full textFisher, Susannah Emily. "Networks for climate change : non-state and subnational actors in Indian climate politics and governance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.610233.
Full textLee, Fung, and 李峰. "Climatic change and Chinese population growth dynamics over the last millennium." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B39558599.
Full textVladimirova, Ekaterina. "Values for sustainable future: transforming values in the context of climate change and global environmental degradation." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/241295.
Full textTsang, Heung-chun, and 曾向俊. "The impact of the global-warming-led climate change on agricultural production of major grain producing regions in China." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2011. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B46733048.
Full textApostolis, Juanita Joleen. "A critical analysis of Global Warning coverage in the National Geographic (2000-2010)." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1607.
Full textParker, Joseph Lynn. "Beyond Sustainable Bounds: Changing Weather, Emigration, and Irrigation in a Farming Village of Sichuan, China, 1945-2012." PDXScholar, 2013. http://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/1514.
Full textDenis, Benjamin. "La politique internationale du climat: analyse du processus de construction du cadre international de lutte contre le réchauffement global." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210881.
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Azarch, Anna. "Climate change negotiations and the North-South relationship : an exploration of continuity and change." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/5202.
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The politics of climate change has thus far been marked by controversy and a lack of consensus in regards to the best manner in which to comprehend and mitigate this problem. This is further aggravated by the characterisation of climate change as a global problem requiring a global solution which has served to only further complicate inter-state relations. While a number of analysts have remarked that the North-South relationship is no longer a meaningful analytical tool in international relations, it will be the purpose of this study to explore this contention within the field of climate change negotiations and to identify both the transformation and continuity within the relationship between the North and South. The unsuccessful nature of climate negotiations are largely held to be the result of the rift between the North and South, where the issues relating to the global political economy are largely responsible for the lack of consensus being reached between developing and developed countries. All climate negotiations since the 1972 UN Conference on the Environment and Development have showcased the tension between the two regions in regards to climate change mitigation and their inability to overcome this fissure. More importantly, the ensuing Copenhagen Summit of 2009 further highlighted a rift amongst the developing countries of the South, and between the developed and developing countries. As a consequence, the main aim of the research will be to understand the character of the global interactions between the North and South in terms of the context of global environmental politics. It is also the purpose of this research to gain a more comprehensive account of the sequence of causation within this relationship which stalled the negotiating process and lastly, to understand the conceptual demarcations of the two terms in the post-Cold War era so as to better understand the nature of the relationship between the two regions. What may be surmised by the study is that there is still a continuity to be found in the international arena pertaining to the North-South relationship. However, the Copenhagen Summit has been instrumental in showcasing the growing stratification that is found within the South and as a result has highlighted the cross-alliances that have formed between the North and South in order to maintain economic growth. Overall, while the North-South relationship does impact the nature of climate mitigation negotiations, the stratification of states based upon economic and developmental divergences will result in states forming alliances based upon economic self-interest.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die politiek van klimaatsverandering is tot dusver gekenmerk aan kontroversie en ‟n gebrek aan konsensus met betrekking tot die mees effektiewe wyse waarop hierdie probleem verstaan en gemitigeer kan word. Die probleem word verder vererger deur die kenmerk van klimaatsverandering as ‟n globale probleem wat ‟n globale oplossing verg, wat tot die verdere komplikasie van interstaat-verhoudings gelei het. Verskeie analiste het opgemerk dat die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide nie meer dien as betekenisvolle analitiese gereedskap op die gebied van internasionale verhoudings nie. Die doel van hierdie ondersoek is gevolglik om hierdie aanname in oënskou te neem, en om beide transformasie en kontinuïteit binne die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide te identifiseer. Die onsuksesvolle aard van klimaatsonderhandelinge word grootliks toegeskryf aan die onenigheid tussen die Noorde en Suide, met kwessies rondom die globale politieke ekonomie grootliks verantwoordelik vir die gebrek aan konsensus tussen die streke. Sedert die 1972 VN Konferensie oor die Omgewing en Ontwikkeling het alle klimaatsonderhandelinge die spanning tussen die twee streke met betrekking to klimaatveranderingsversagtings en hul onvermoë om hierdie skeur te oorbrug, ten toon gestel. Die 2009 Kopenhagen-beraad het ‟n onenigheid ontbloot tussen die ontwikkelende lande in die Suide en tussen ontwikkelende en ontwikkelde lande. Gevolglik is die hoofdoelstelling van hierdie studie om die aard van globale interaksies tussen die Noorde en Suide te verstaan met betrekking tot die konteks van globale omgewingspolitiek. Die doel van die navorsing is ook om ‟n meer omvattende verklaring te verkry oor die volgorde van oorsaaklike verbande binne hierdie verhouding wat die onderhandelingsproses tot stilstand gebring het en laastens, om die konseptuele afbakening van hierdie twee terme in die post-Koue Oorlog era en die aard van die verhouding tussen die twee streke beter te verstaan. Hierdie studie wys dat daar steeds kontinuïteit in die internasionale arena is met betrekking tot die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide. Die 2009 Kopenhagen-beraad was egter instrumenteel om die groeiende stratifikasie wat binne die Suide gevind word uit te lig, en die kruisalliansies wat tussen die Noorde en Suide gevorm is om ekonomiese groei in stand te hou, te beklemtoon. Alhoewel die verhouding tussen die Noorde en Suide tog ‟n impak op die aard van klimaatsversagtingsonderhandelings uitoefen, sal die stratifikasie van state wat op ekonomiese- en ontwikkelingsafwykings gebaseer is tot gevolg hê dat state alliansies vorm op grond van ekonomiese selfbelange.
Freeland, Ballantyne Erin. "Sustainability's paradox : community health, climate change and petrocapitalism." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.711671.
Full textWeikmans, Romain. "Le financement international de l'adaptation au changement climatique: quelle vision de l'aide ?" Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209004.
Full textLes contestations normatives relatives à la nature des transferts financiers Nord-Sud visant l’adaptation au changement climatique et à ses relations avec l’aide publique au développement (APD) se sont considérablement accentuées depuis 2009 lorsque les pays développés se sont conjointement engagés à fournir des ressources «nouvelles et supplémentaires » à hauteur de 30 milliards de dollars pour la période 2010-2012 et à mobiliser collectivement 100 milliards de dollars par an d’ici à 2020, en les répartissant de manière « équilibrée » entre l’atténuation et l’adaptation dans les pays en développement. Mouvements de solidarité internationale, organisations non gouvernementales de protection de l’environnement, représentants des pays en développement, et parfois institutions multilatérales de développement :nombreux sont les acteurs qui appellent à la mise en place d’un financement international de l’adaptation qui existerait séparément de l’aide, en représentant une forme de « compensation » liée à la responsabilité disproportionnée des pays développés dans l’occurrence du changement climatique.
Notre thèse se construit à partir d’un constat :celui de la déconnexion entre une hypothèse largement répandue dans la littérature académique (i.e. l’existence d’un financement international de l’adaptation qui serait distinct de l’APD – et original sous divers aspects) et la réalité observable (i.e. l’existence d’un tel financement ne se vérifie pas dans les faits). Comment expliquer cette déconnexion ?Telle est précisément la question que nous tentons d’élucider dans le présent document. Nous formulons l’hypothèse selon laquelle les discours opposant le financement international de l’adaptation et l’aide au développement sont le produit d’une vision particulière de ce que devrait être l’APD. L’ambition de notre recherche est dès lors de caractériser cette vision normative de l’aide et d’examiner ses manifestations dans une série de débats récurrents qui traversent la question du financement international de l’adaptation. Nous mettons en évidence le fait que ces discours renouvellent une vision de l’aide entre États souverains destinée à répondre aux injustices internationales et à alimenter un transfert de ressources régulier entre pays riches et pays pauvres.
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Tirivarombo, Sithabile. "Climate variability and climate change in water resources management of the Zambezi River basin." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002955.
Full text"Projecting future air temperature of Hong Kong for the 21st century and its implications on urban planning and design." 2013. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6116181.
Full text本研究採用線性迴歸技術,以預測未來香港市區和郊區的氣溫。本研究利用氣象站和統計延伸得出之基線氣溫數據來建立統計降尺度模型,以預測未來香港市區和郊區之平均氣溫、最高氣溫和最低氣溫。
根據結果顯示,統計降尺度模型能夠有效建立大氣氣象參數和本港氣溫兩者之間的關係,尤其春季、秋季和冬季之氣溫預測表現理想。另外,冬季氣溫的上升趨勢則出現較大的升幅。研究結果亦顯示夜間氣溫的上升趨勢一般比日間為高。在未來的日子,郊區的溫度上升亦將會比市區為高。隨著城市化的影響納入預測溫度因素之中,預計郊區的氣溫將超過城市核心(天文台總部之氣象站),而郊區暖化的速度亦比市區和近郊為高。
本研究發現統計降尺度方法能有助利用全球氣候模型(GCM)提供之數據,以預測未來氣候之變化。城市規劃與設計過程是需要大量的數據進行評估氣候變化對城市環境的影響之研究,儘管統計降尺度方法有一定程度的局限性,它仍然是一個低成本而有效的方法。根據未來預測之氣溫,本研究具體指出未來之氣候變化對於城市規劃和設計過程的影響,亦提出了一系列於不同規劃層面適用之適應和減緩措施的建議。
The effects of global climate change on urban environment have been widely discussed in recent decades. In particular, changes in urban climate have received much attention as they affect the living quality of urban dwellers. However, the coarse spatial scales employed in recent climate change studies were found to be insufficient in the context of urban planning and design. It leads to the lack of information on the changing urban climate and insufficient consideration of climate change in urban planning and design processes. In high-density cities like Hong Kong, the complex urban environment requires climatic data at very fine temporal resolution in order to formulate effective adaptation and mitigation strategies for future climate change.
The present study employed regression techniques to establish empirical relationship between large-scale predictor variables and local predictands in order to obtain future air temperature of urban and rural areas of Hong Kong. 40-year baseline conditions of local air temperature were obtained from both the observational and statistically extended temperature record. Monthly means of daily mean, maximum, and minimum air temperatures for both daytime and night-time were calculated for establishing statistical downscaling (SD) models to project future air temperature of urban and rural areas of Hong Kong.
The results suggest that regression-based downscaling techniques are able to capture the relationship between large-scale atmospheric conditions and station-scale meteorological parameters. The SD models performed particularly well in winter and considerably satisfactory results were obtained in spring and autumn. Night-time temperature trends generally exhibited greater increases than daytime trends. Seasonal variations were present with greatest increases observed in winter. Rural areas would likely experience greater warming than the urban areas in the future. With urbanization effect incorporated into the projected temperature series, it was found that air temperature projected for suburban stations would exceed that for the urban core. Rural warming also exhibited a higher rate than those observed in suburban and urban stations.
The present study shows that statistical downscaling approach provides a method to obtain information about future climatic conditions at local scale by using GCM outputs which are widely accepted to be useful tools to assist climate change studies. Despite of the limitations that historical climate would persist in projected climatic series, it allows a low-cost but effective measure for climate impact assessments, particularly in the context of urban planning and design, which requires extensive data for a wide range of studies. Based on the projected air temperature, implications of future climate change on urban planning and design of potential development were discussed and recommendations on potential adaptation and mitigation measures at different planning levels were also presented.
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Lau, Ka Lun.
Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 159-173).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Lu, Yingying. "Three essays on fiscal and environmental policy interactions : theories and applications." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/156326.
Full textVaughn, Sarah E. "Between a Promise and a Trench: Citizenship, Vulnerability, and Climate Change in Guyana." Thesis, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8154GDR.
Full text"Monthly water balance modeling for hydrological impact assessment of climate change in the Dongjiang (East River) Basin, South China." Thesis, 2005. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6074055.
Full textThe developed model was applied to evaluate the changes in water availability in the Dongjiang basin under hypothetical climate change scenarios and those derived from projections of three General Circulation Models (GCM), i.e., CGCM1, CSIRO and ECHAM4. Sensitivity analyses based on hypothetical scenarios suggest that climatic change has greater effects on runoff than on soil moisture and greater effects on water availability in dry months than in wet months. The effects of precipitation changes on the amount of runoff and soil moisture can be characterized by a magnification factor whereas temperature increases alone produce negligible effects. Hydrological simulation with inputs of three GCM-generated scenarios indicates that annual and rain-season runoff will increase by 0.3°io to 13.9% and 7.6% to 12.0%, respectively, by the 2050s. Dry-season runoff will change between -23.2% and +26.4%. Average annual and dry-season soil moisture will decrease by 1.3% to 6.9% and 1.0% to 8.1%, respectively. Soil moisture will demonstrate little change in rain-season. Increase in annual runoff and reduction in annual soil moisture will be apparent over the whole basin, but there is relatively little consistency among the three GCM-generated scenarios as to the magnitudes of spatial change in runoff and soil moisture. Although these results are not definitive statements as to what will happen to runoff and soil moisture in the Dongjiang basin, they rather have significant implications for the study of response strategies of water supply and flood control to climate change.
Jiang Tao.
"July 2005."
Advisers: Chen Yongqin; Lam Kin-che.
Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: B, page: 0149.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 174-190).
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Scolnick, Timothy Julian. "Understanding China's strategic engagement on climate change: an economic nationalist perspective." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/2668.
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