Facing the concern of the population to its environment and to climatic change, city planners are now considering the urban climate in their choices of planning. The use of climatic maps, such Urban Climate Zone‑UCZ, is adapted for this kind of application. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the UCZ classification, integrated in the World Meteorological Organization guidelines, ...

What mechanism links climate change and social change? Palaeoanthropological analysis of human remains suggests that abrupt climate change is linked to societal restructuring, but it has been challenging to reliably identify the exact mechanisms underlying this relationship. Here we identify one potential mechanism that can link climate to behavior change, and underpins many of the reported fin...

Economic evidence is a key component of public policy responses to complex societal and health problems, including climate change. Activities to protect human health from climate change should routinely be evaluated not only in terms of their effectiveness or unintended consequences, but also in terms of the health damage cost of inaction, the cost of health adaptation, and the monetized benefi...

Information systems design’s traditional concentration on short-term, readily quantifiable functional factors has resulted in the development of systems that are usually quite capable of manipulating data in the desired manner to produce the required output, but often fail to promote the general behavioral climate objectives of the organization. Failure to consider such behavioral objectives in...

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Climate services involve the generation, provision, and contextualization of information and knowledge derived from climate research for decision making at all levels of society. These services are mainly targeted at informing adaptation to climate variability and change, widely recognized as an important challenge for sustainable development. This paper reviews the development of climate servi...

Editorials 546 As discussed elsewhere in this issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization , human health and climate change are inextricably linked. This month, the World Health Organization (WHO) will, for the first time, bring together high-level government representatives , development partners and technical experts in a global conference on climate and health. What does the confe...

the behaviors of employees in organizations must be in product direct. but sometimes this behaviors not only isn`t in product way, but also disrupt product process. in spite, some factors like suitable organizational climate and existence of organizational justice can buffer these disruptive behaviors. the aim of current study was to investigate the effect of organizational climate and organiza...