Browsing by Subject "climate change"

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Clean and climate neutral planet and mineral resources in the EU
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2020) Karaś, Henryk
The directions of EU activities in the field of mineral resources and their extraction, which are important for the development of the economy, are presented herein. The breakthrough in the EU came in 2008 with the announcement of the new Raw Materials Policy (RMP) and its presentation in Brussels in 2007. The long-term negligence of the EU authorities in terms of the lack of investment in research and development in the extractive industry in successive innovation programs implemented by the EU has been noticed. Changes in the global market at the end of the 20th century made the EU economy highly dependent from the import of many raw materials [1, 2]. The RMP plan adopted for implementation included 10 activities covering the EU bodies, member states and the mining industry. In the following years (2011-2012), a program aimed at strengthening the raw materials policy, called EIP on RM - innovative partnership on raw materials, appeared. It also resulted in an increase in expenditure on activities in the area of circular economy. The new innovation program Horizon Europe planned for 2021-2027 also provided for the important role of raw materials in the field of clean energy development and the implementation of the principles of the «green deal» , which is expected to reduce climate change plan in the EU by 2050 [3]. It is assumed that the principles of the EU's «green deal» are to be a model for other countries / continents of the world to follow.
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Climate Change Viewer: User-Friendly Web Tool for Climate Change Tracking in Ukraine
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2025) Osypov, Valeriy; Filippov, Nazar; Mossur, Herman; Ahafonov, Yurii; Skrynyk, Oleg; Osadcha, Nataliia; Osadchyi, Volodymyr
An effective climate-change-adaptation strategy should be based on user-friendly and reliable climate services. Due to the lack of such services in Ukraine, this study aimed to develop a web tool called “Climate Change Viewer” (https://climate.uhmi.org.ua/) to visualize climate change in Ukraine and support the development of adaptation measures on a regional scale. The tool’s temperature and precipitation data sets include gridded observation-based time series (1946–2020), climate ERA5-Land reanalysis (1981–2020), and high-resolution regional climate projections of the EURO-Cordex initiative (1981–2100). Regular grids of historical data sets and climate projections have been aggregated within the administrative units and main river basins of Ukraine. Climate Change Viewer shows that the observed warming trend across Ukraine remains within the projected range but exceeds the mean of the climate models’ ensemble. The projected precipitation tends to increase in the northwestern and decrease in the southeastern parts of Ukraine through the end of the 21st century. The tool’s user-friendly interface and regional binding can help increase the awareness of national and local authorities, businesses, and the public sector about future risks of warming and water availability. The further development of Climate Change Viewer also considers other environmental and sector-specific parameters.
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Climate protection as an opportunity for banks to increase earnings and consumer trust
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Kiszka, Sabrina; Hastenteufel, Jessica
Banks are currently facing numerous challenges. In addition to the ongoing cheap money policy of the European Central Bank, a regulated market environment and a rapidly progressive digitization, financial institutions are increasingly confronted with topics such as sustainability and climate protection. From the latter derive not only risks but also chances for banks. Sustainability risks can impact different risk categories such as market risks, credit risks, operational risks, and liquidity risks. Moreover, reputational risks can occur in this context. This is especially important as bank customers constantly develop a greater awareness of ecological issues, and thus, develop increasing expectations on how companies - like banks - deal with issues like climate protection and sustainability. For this reason, we will start with a theoretical explanation of the key words and then present the results of our customer survey to highlight the current expectations of bank customers in the context of climate protection. Based on this, we formulate recommendations for banks on how to generate a competitive advantage by engaging in climate protection and by taking sustainable actions.
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Drivers and Impacts of Climate Change: Comprehensive Review of Natural and Anthropogenic Forcing with GCM-Based Projections
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2025) Çelik, Mehmet Özgür; Orhan, Osman; Kurt, Mehmet Ali
Climate change constitutes an escalating global crisis that features significant implications for ecosystems, water resources, agriculture, and industry. Understanding its causes and potential impacts is crucial for formulating effective mitigation and adaptation strategies. This study systematically reviews recent scientific findings and scenario-based climate models to assess both the natural and anthropogenic (human-induced) factors that are driving climate change. It highlights the rising levels of atmospheric carbon, the increasing global temperatures, and the resulting environmental challenges (including extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and biodiversity losses). By drawing on more than 40 regional and global studies, this paper synthesizes results from various GCMs – particularly those that are applied in arid and semi-arid regions (where climate vulnerabilities are most pronounced). The findings revealed disparities in regional vulnerability and highlighted the necessity of selecting accurate GCMs for effective adaptation planning. By synthesizing the existing literature and climate models, this paper aims to establish a comprehensive reference for researchers and policymakers, thus facilitating informed decision-making that is geared toward a sustainable future.
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Extracting land surface albedo from Landsat 9 data in GEE platform to support climate change analysis
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Barletta, Carlo; Capolupo, Alessandra; Tarantino, Eufemia
Land surface albedo is a relevant variable in many climatic, environmental, and hydrological studies, its monitoring allows researchers to identify changes on the Earth’s surface. The open satellite data that is provided by the USGS/NASA Landsat mission is quite suitable for estimating this parameter through the remote sensing technique. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the potentialities of the new Landsat 9 data for retrieving Earth’s albedo by applying da Silva et al.’s algorithm (developed in 2016 for the Landsat 8 data) using the Google Earth Engine cloud platform and R software. Two urban areas in Southern Italy with similar geomorphologic and climatic characteristics were chosen as study sites. After obtaining thematic maps of the albedos here, a statistical analysis and comparison among the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 results was performed considering the entire study areas and each land use/land cover class that is provided by the Copernicus Urban Atlas 2018. This approach was also applied to the data after being filtered through Tukey’s test (used to detect and remove outliers). The analysis showed a very good correlation between the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 estimations (ρ > 0.94 for both sites), with some exceptions that were related to some mis-corresponding values. Furthermore, the Landsat 8 and Landsat 9 outliers were generally overlapping. In conclusion, da Silva et al.’s approach appears to also be reasonably applicable to the Landsat 9 data despite some radiometric differences.
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Geospatial analysis of the impact of flood and drought hazards on crop land and its relationship with human migration at the district level in Uttar Pradesh, India
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2021) Islam, Zubairul; Singh, Sudhir Kumar
The main objective was to explore the connection between flood and drought hazards and their impact on crop land and human migration. The Flood and Drought effect on Cropland Index (FDCI), hot spot analysis and the Global Regression Analysis method was applied for the identification of the relationship between human migration and flood and drought hazards. The spatial pattern and hot and cold spots of FDCI, spatial autocorrelation and Getis-OrdGi* statistic techniques were used respectively. The FDCI was taken as an explanatory variable and human migration was taken as a dependent variable in the environment of the geographically weighted regression (GWR) model which was applied to measure the impact of flood and drought hazards on human migration. FDCI suggests a z-score of 4.9, which shows that the impact of flood and drought frequency on crop land is highly clustered. In the case of the hot spots analysis, out of seventy districts in Uttar Pradesh twenty-one were classified as hot spot and eight were classified as cold spots with a confidence level of 90 to 99%. Hot spot indicate maximum and cold spots show minimum impact of flood and drought hazards on crop land. The impact of flood and drought hazards on human migration show that there are fourteen districts where migration out is far more than predicted while there are ten districts where migration out is far lower.
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Interaction of silty loam soil on the change of soil retention capacity and soil compaction following subsoiling
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2025) Borek, Łukasz
The subsoiling of arable soils as part of a strategy against excessive compaction and the resulting plow pan can be successfully used as a pro-retention treatment. The study of changes in the physical and water properties of soil as a result of subsoiling was carried out on three sites: Wojnowice, Strzybnik, and Owsiszcze, located in the Racibórz district, Śląskie Voivodeship (Poland), in a silty-loam soil. A total of five soil profiles (0–150 cm) were analyzed before and after subsoiling. The experiment used a seven-tine Maschio subsoiler at a depth of 50–60 cm between 2012–2014. The physical (e.g., soil bulk density, soil organic matter) and water (e.g., maximum water capacity, field water capacity, permanent wilting point, total plant available water) properties of the soil were determined before and after subsoiling, taking into account the division into layers: 0–25 cm, 25–50 cm, and 50–150 cm. Statistical analyses were used to check changes in soil physical and water parameters. The results show that the subsoiling treatment caused a statistically significant decrease in soil compaction (bulk density) at all three layers and increased moisture in the range of total plant available water in the subsoil layer (25–50 cm). Subsoiling in silty-loam soil will enable the soil’s retention potential to be used, especially in dry years.
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Ocena poglądów i działań w zakresie globalnego ocieplenia
(Data obrony: 2012-09-28) Lebiest, Monika
Wydział Geodezji Górniczej i Inżynierii Środowiska
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Ocena poglądów na temat globalnego ocieplenia
(Data obrony: 2015-10-20) Biel, Paweł
Wydział Geodezji Górniczej i Inżynierii Środowiska
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The influence of religion on public awareness of environmental issues in Europe and the Pacific: a comparative study of the Catholic Christian churches in Poland and Fiji
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2019) Young, William
Many argue that climate change and environmental issues of this present day has been the direct or indirect result of man's greed and unsustainable use of natural resources. These extremities were made more intense after the industrial revolution and the introduction of a more mechanised developing economy. In all these changes happening today, getting the right stakeholders on board is crucial. The study honed in on Catholic parishioners' perceptions and aspirations on their church's stance towards environmental issues in the developing and developed countries, with interest of the Catholic churches in Poland and Fiji. Results show that various disparities occur in both countries mainly due to historical events, economical might, tradition, leadership and political affiliations. What is important for such studies in both situations is identifying the opportunities which can be can be learned from these complexities.