Due to anthropological climate change, climate scientists project a significant change in
climate in the coming years. Despite the advances in climate modeling, future climate is still …

Chapter 3 assesses the emissions pathways literature in order to identify their key
characteristics (both in commonalities and differences) and to understand how societal …

Our current 1.1 C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

Mountain glaciers are known to be strongly affected by global climate change. Here we
compute temporally consistent changes in glacier area, surface elevation and ice mass over …

The energy crisis is affecting a number of countries, but particularly those that are heavily
dependent on the traditional energy generation formula (eg, Poland), as well as those …

In Alpine regions, future changes in glacier and snow cover are expected to change runoff
regimes towards higher winter but lower summer discharge. The low summer discharge will …

Despite being one of the proven clean-energy technologies, hydroelectricity is losing
attention in global research. Hydroelectricity is extremely important for countries possessing …

Land use and climate change are expected to significantly alter hydrology and consequently
electricity production in countries extremely dependent on their water resources, such as …

The criteria for zoning the surface fault rupture hazard (SFRH) along thrust faults are defined
by analysing the characteristics of the areas of coseismic surface faulting in thrust …

Hydropower plays a significant role in the transition towards a low-carbon power system,
being a renewable energy source that can complement solar and wind power, which are …