Impacts of climate change on health and wellbeing in South Africa

MF Chersich, CY Wright, F Venter, H Rees… - International journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Given its associated burden of disease, climate change in South Africa could be reframed as
predominately a health issue, one necessitating an urgent health-sector response. The …

Weather and climate extreme events in a changing climate

SI Seneviratne, X Zhang, M Adnan, W Badi… - 2021 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Caption: Table A. 11. 2. Synthesis table summarising assessments presented in Tables 11.4-
11.21 for hot extremes (HOT EXT.), heavy precipitation (HEAVY PRECIP.), agriculture and …

[PDF][PDF] Cities, settlements and key infrastructure

D Dodman, B Hayward, M Pelling, V Castán Broto… - 2023 - escholarship.org
In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

Climate change vulnerability, water resources and social implications in North Africa

J Schilling, E Hertig, Y Tramblay, J Scheffran - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
North Africa is considered a climate change hot spot. Existing studies either focus on the
physical aspects of climate change or discuss the social ones. The present article aims to …

[HTML][HTML] Cities and climate change

JR Short, A Farmer - Earth, 2021 - mdpi.com
This review paper considers the disjuncture between the rapid pace of climate change and
the more sluggish ability of cities to fully implement effective strategies of climate change …

Impact assessment of climate change and urbanization on the nonstationarity of extreme precipitation: A case study in an urban agglomeration in the middle reaches …

H Liu, L Zou, J **a, T Chen, F Wang - Sustainable Cities and Society, 2022 - Elsevier
Extreme precipitation events exert increasingly profound effects on public health and
ecosystems under climate change and urbanization. In this study, the nonstationarity and …

What can we know about future precipitation in Africa? Robustness, significance and added value of projections from a large ensemble of regional climate models

A Dosio, RG Jones, C Jack, C Lennard, G Nikulin… - Climate Dynamics, 2019 - Springer
We employ a large ensemble of Regional Climate Models (RCMs) from the COordinated
Regional-climate Downscaling EXperiment to explore two questions:(1) what can we know …

Analyzing regional climate change in Africa in a 1.5, 2, and 3 C global warming world

T Weber, A Haensler, D Rechid, S Pfeifer… - Earth's …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
At the 21st session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris, an agreement to strengthen the effort to limit the …

[HTML][HTML] Limited access and use of climate information by small-scale sugarcane farmers in South Africa: A case study

Z Ncoyini, MJ Savage, S Strydom - Climate Services, 2022 - Elsevier
South Africa is continuously experiencing significant irregular climate attributable to both
climate change and the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO). Air temperature increases …

[HTML][HTML] Ranking European capitals by exposure to heat waves and cold waves

M Smid, S Russo, AC Costa, C Granell, E Pebesma - Urban Climate, 2019 - Elsevier
In warming Europe, we are witnessing a growth in urban population with aging trend, which
will make the society more exposed and vulnerable to extreme weather events. In the period …