Editorial: Nature-based solutions for natural hazards and climate change

Guest Editorial: Climate Change: Healthy Solutions

Houghton et al. 2001) concluded that climate is changing, humans are contributing, weather has become more extreme, and biological systems on all continents and in the oceans are responding to the warming. From the fourth IPCC assessment (Alley et al. 2007) and the Arctic Climate Impact Assessment (ACIA 2004), we now know that the deep oceans have accumulated 22 times more heat than has the atm...

Natural solutions to climate change

Fifty years ago, humans harboured the hubristic idea that they could alter the weather and climate to their advantage, perhaps to prevent future ice ages or to induce rainfall in drought-stricken regions. these high-flying hopes were eventually doused by reality; today, we have the more humble objective of merely keeping the climate stable—in particular, mitigating the impact of greenhouse gase...

Mining Extreme Values: Climate and Natural Hazards

The analysis and modeling of extreme values have traditionally relied on extreme value theory (EVT), which in turn has tended to focus on limiting or asymptotic cases and assumptions of independence. However, disciplines from climate science and digital mapping to infrastructure security and transportation, have been generating massive volumes of data with multidimensional and multivariable dep...

Nature-based solutions to climate change mitigation and adaptation in urban areas

Editorial: Climate Change and Marine Top Predators

Climate is one of the main structuring forces in natural ecosystems (Richardson and Schoeman, 2004), and anthropogenic climate change is regarded as an important driver of changes in the range and abundance of species as well as community composition, not least in marine ecosystems (Poloczanska et al., 2013). There are two overall mechanisms by which climate change can affect range and abundanc...