Climate change is likely to influence the water cycle by changing the precipitation patterns, in some cases leading to increased occurrences of precipitation extremes. Urban landscapes are vulnerable to such changes due to the concentrated population and socio-economic values in cities. Feasible adaptation requires better flood risk quantification and assessment of appropriate adaptation action...

Climate change will likely have significant effects on forest ecosystems worldwide. In Mediterranean regions, such as that in southwestern Oregon, USA, changes will likely be driven mainly by wildfire and drought. To minimize the negative effects of climate change, resource managers require tools and information to assess climate change vulnerabilities and to develop and implement adaptation ac...

This paper explores design options and evaluates implementations of in-network, RTP/RTSP based adaptation MANEs (Media Aware Network Elements) for H.264/SVC content streaming. The obvious technique to be employed by such an adaptation MANE is to perform SVC specific bitstream extraction or truncation. Another mechanism that can be used is description (metadata) driven, coding format independent...

Increased amount of green house gases (GHG) in the atmosphere will cause climate change that adversely impact crop production especially arid and semi-arid regions developing countries. Development implementation field level adaptations measures to cope up with are necessary farmers whose livelihood depends on crop-based income. Crop simulation models incorporate soil-crop-climate processes pla...

The production of major field crops, namely, rice, wheat, and maize, is highly vulnerable to climatic factors abiotic stresses. In the present era climate change, emerged as limiting concerns for flourishing growth yield. Among factors, temperature, soil moisture, salinity, elevated carbon dioxide levels solar radiation are prime affecting productivity cereals. To combat with situation, it nece...