Search Results - "Swart, Rob J."

Europe adapts to climate change: Comparing National Adaptation Strategies by Biesbroek, G. Robbert, Swart, Rob J., Carter, Timothy R., Cowan, Caroline, Henrichs, Thomas, Mela, Hanna, Morecroft, Michael D., Rey, Daniela

“…For the last two decades, European climate policy has focused almost exclusively on mitigation of climate change. It was only well after the turn of the…”
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Quantifying the effectiveness of climate change mitigation through forest plantations and carbon sequestration with an integrated land-use model by Minnen, J.G. van, Strengers, B.J, Eickhout, B, Swart, R.J, Leemans, R

“…Background Carbon plantations are introduced in climate change policy as an option to slow the build-up of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations…”
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Thresholds, tipping and turning points for sustainability under climate change by Werners, Saskia E, Pfenninger, Stefan, van Slobbe, Erik, Haasnoot, Marjolijn, Kwakkel, Jan H, Swart, Rob J

“…•Climate change shifts the sustainability challenge from conservation to adaptation.•The moment that policy becomes untenable is a critical social–political…”
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The mitigation–adaptation dichotomy and the role of spatial planning by Biesbroek, G. Robbert, Swart, Rob J., van der Knaap, Wim G.M.

“…There is a growing awareness that both adaptation and mitigation measures are needed to reduce the impacts of climate change. Historically, due to a wide…”
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Climate Change Risk Management in Transnational River Basins: The Rhine by van Pelt, Saskia C., Swart, Rob J.

“…Climate change is likely to have an impact on the discharge of the European river Rhine. To base adaptation strategies, to deal with these changing river…”
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Inventory of greenhouse gas emissions in The Netherlands by Swart, R.J, Bouwman, L, Olivier, J, Born, G.J. van den (National Inst. of Public Health and Environmental Protection, Bilthoven (Netherlands))

“…To support a Dutch national integrated policy with respect to climate change an inventory was made of the emissions around 1990 of all the trace gases that…”
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