Will Climate Change Alter the NPT Political Balance? New Challenges for the Non-proliferation Regime

Why climate change will invariably alter selection pressures on phenology.

The seasonal timing of lifecycle events is closely linked to individual fitness and hence, maladaptation in phenological traits may impact population dynamics. However, few studies have analysed whether and why climate change will alter selection pressures and hence possibly induce maladaptation in phenology. To fill this gap, we here use a theoretical modelling approach. In our models, the phe...

The Regime Complex for Climate Change

There is no integrated, comprehensive regime governing efforts to limit the extent of climate change. Instead, there is a regime complex: a loosely coupled set of specific regimes. We describe the regime complex for climate change and seek to explain it, using functional, strategic, and organizational arguments. It is likely that such a regime complex will persist: efforts to build an effective...

Climate change: the political situation.

The uncertainties of climate predictions are estimated to be ϳ50%, excluding instabilities of the climate system that could yield substantially larger changes, for example, through the collapse of the Gulf Stream and deep ocean circulation system, a break-off of the West Antarctic ice sheet, or the release of methane presently frozen in permafrost regions. 23. Examples are tradable renewable en...

Challenges to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Can the Regime Survive? An Australian Perspective

Although the nuclear non-proliferation regime has enjoyed considerable success, today it is facing serious threats. Recent and continuing violations of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), particularly by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and Iran, as well as the lack of substantive outcome from the 2005 NPT Review Conference, have led some critics to question whether the ...

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