New Methodologies and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Global Change Research

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Conference Opening
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The Start and the End of Our Interglacial
The previous interglacial (Marine isotope stage 5e, peaking at 125 kyr BP) is usually assumed to be a good analogue for our present-day climate. Moreover, as our present interglacial, the Holocene, is
Global Climate Change: Past and Future
My presentation will begin with a review of the now-solid evidence for a human influence on the climate of recent decades. Such evidence includes instrumental measurements available for the past two
Long Term Climate Variability: from Past to Future and from Data to Models
Data show that climate has always changed in the past, sometimes with a larger amplitude than what we experimented for two decades. But the main signatures of the anthopogenic forcing are the speed of
Comparison of Simulated Tree-Ring Cellulose d180 at the European Scale
In order to investigate factors involved in the inter-annual variability of d180 in tree ring cellulose (d18OTRC), we simulated the d18OTRC from 1960 to 2001 over Europe. We used 1) simulated climate
Holocene Climatic Changes and Their Effect on Morphodynamics and Sedimentation in Campania
High-resolution paleoclimatic studies (e.g. 18O, 13C, CH4, MS, ect) provide 38 detailed reconstructions of the Holocene climatic variability, but they don’t are unable to provide direct informations
Debate
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Climate Models: learning from the Past Long-Term Climate Variability
Projections of future climate change rely on global climate models. Such models simulate the dynamics and physics of the coupled atmosphere-ocean system and move towards models of the full Earth
From Climate Models to Earth System Models
Complex climate models that describe the evolution of the coupled ocean atmosphere cryosphere system are gradually extended to “non physical” components of the earth system, and account for land
Cross-Disciplinary International Research on Land-Atmosphere Interactions
The presentation will focus on scientific issues of importance to global change and climate change research: interactions of reactive trace and greenhouse gases between the biosphere and atmosphere in
Modelling Forced and Internal Climate Variability During the Last Millennium
At hemispheric scale, the surface temperature is strongly influenced by the 28 variations of the natural (solar and volcanic) and anthropogenic (land-use, sulphate aerosols, greenhouse gas
Detection and Attribution of Climate Change to Different Causes
According to the last IPCC report, the most part of the observed increase in globally averaged temperatures since the mid-20th century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic
Borehole Climatology and Model Simulations: Steps to Integrated Assessment
Progress in understanding climate variability through the last millennium leans on simulation and reconstruction efforts. Exercises blending both approaches present a great potential for answering
Debate
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The State of UK Climate Modelling
The UK recently invested £23 million (~US$40 million) in a program in Quantifying and Understanding the Earth SysTem (QUEST). The final product of this investment is the state-of-the-art QUEST Earth
Data-Model Fusion Approach in Global Change Research: Recent Development and Future Challenges
It is increasingly recognized that global change research requires methods and strategies for combing process models and data in systematic ways. This is leading to research towards the application of
Are European Ecosystems Vulnerable to Climate Change
The relatively simple question posed by this title turns out to be complicated in its implementation, for a number of reasons: First, ecosystems have changed in response to changing climate throughout
Regional Climate Change and Extremes
Global coupled ocean-atmosphere models, driven by greenhouse gas concentrations according to several hypotheses for the next century, have been used in the last IPCC-AR4 report to depict possible
A Roadmap to Assess the Economic Cost of Climate Change with an Application to Hurricanes in the Un…
This talk presents a methodological roadmap to assess macro-economic damages from climate change. To do so, it explores a single manifestation of climate change in a single location: an increase in
Setting Cumulative Emissions Targets to Reduce the Risk of "Dangerous" Climate Change
The ultimate objective of climate change mitigation is to reduce the amount of anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in order to achieve “stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the
Food demand, Productivity Growth and the Spatial Distribution of Land and Water use: A Global Model…
Nowadays, human society appropriates about one quarter of total net primary production of the terrestrial biosphere. Production of food, energy and materials, and the related use of land and water
Linking Adaptation and Mitigation for Climate Risk Reduction
How people privately and collectively adapt to climate risk can affect the costs and benefits of public mitigation policy (e.g., Kyoto); an obvious point often neglected in actual policy making.
Climate, Geography and Macroeconomics: Revised Data, Refined Analysis and New Findings
Assessments of social and economic impacts of climate change are primarily based on the results of biophysical climate impact models, which are aggregated, extrapolated and/or valued in monetary terms
The Largest Lakes and reservoirs of Russia as a Priority Water Ressource for Society
Global change for the last 25 years drives to important changes in hydrometeorological regime in different regions, reflecting water resources change of the larges reservoirs and lakes of Russia and
The Impacts of Climate Change on Continental Ecosystems
Climate change will deeply modify the ecophysiological functioningof plants, by creating a set of conditions which could be more favourable (in the sense of biomass production) or not. Among the first
Recent Trends and Vulnerabilities in the Carbon Cycle
We shall address the coupling between atmospheric circulation and the modelling of ecosystems, to have a better understanding of the carbon cycle, perturbed both by land use and Climate Change. The
Industrial and Environmental Policies: Reciprocal Impacts
Total as a key player of the Oil and Gas industry is providing answers to 25 environmental challenges. In that respect, it has already developed environmental objectives and policies. Its
Debate
The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the French Foundation of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) (within the Entre-Sciences programme) have agreed to jointly develop a new conference
Turning Hazards into Ressources? Climate Change, Floods and Coastal Wetlands in the Costa Brava (No…
According to the IPCC Fourth Assessment, one of the most vulnerable areas in Europe are coastal zones. This is due to sea level rise combined with increased risks from storms. Coastal wetlands, in
Social Impact of global Environmental Change on Farming Communities on the Ogoli River Bank in Otuk…
One of the manifestations of the global change in this study area is a marked reduction in the duration and amount of rainfall. This adversely affects the volume of the head waters that ultimately
The Effect of Thermal Pollution on Benthic Foraminiferal Assemblages, in the Mediterranean Shore Fa…
Over the past several decades public and scientific awareness to global warming has increased significantly. As a result, many studies have examined the affects of global warming. However, the
Present-Day Geomorphological Changes in Polar Regions
The landscape uniqueness of polar zone manifests itself in morphological traces of older glaciations and marine transgressions, areas of present-day glaciations, multi-year permafrost, multi-year snow
The Economics of the Climate/Development of the Gordian Knot; Beyond a Sound Pessimism
We will first suggest that costs of meeting ambitious climate targets capable to stabilize global warming below 2°C or 3°C temperature increase have been underestimated so far. The first reason is the
Interlocking Natural and Social Systems - Resilience, Governance and Research Policy Considerations
In this presentation the start is made from the 2007 IPCC statement that it now seems consolidated that there is a clear sign of the importance of the anthropogenic factors in the climate change
Post-2012 options to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The presentation will focus on post-2012 options to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, putting special emphasis on the need to abate world emissions. The presentation will focus on post-2012
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Challenges of Climate policy, Equity and Ethi…
The 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report provides clear guidance for the greenhouse gas emissions reductions needed to limit global warming to specific targets such as 2 °C
Debate
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How to Foster the Economic and Societal Technical Solutions?
The presentation will focus on the interplay between economic scenarios (based on energy demand and CO2 emission reduction) with long run-public policies. The French case will be discussed in more
International Negociations on Climate Change: How to Take Advantage of Risk Aversion to Improve the…
Climate change is one of the best examples of global environmental problems. Countries are conscious that they have to find a solution to this global problem at the international level. Negotiations
The Sustainability of Kyoto's Architecture: Where Did the Victims of Climate Change Go?
cept of “expropriation” in the case of territories exposed to a rise in sea levels. The premise of my project is that although future generations in all countries will be affected by climate change,
Debate
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Carbon Offsetting: An Ethical and Psychological Approach
The carbon offset market is becoming more and more popular. However, 57 until now few studies have attempted to approach the phenomenon from a social sciences’ perspective. By distinguishing three
The Intergenerational Equity: A Concept to Build for Sustainability, the Case of Global Warning
Defined as “the relation that each generation has with the last or future generations in the use... of the natural or cultural resources of planet”, Intergeneration equity (here I.E) imposes rules of
The Costs of Strategic Adaptation in a Simple Conceptual of Climate Change
A simple theoretical model of the process of strategic adaptation to climate change is proposed. Climate change is represented by a non-stationary Markov process on the space of climate states, and
Climatic Hazard Mitigation Through Risk and Resilience Committees in Nepal
Nepal lies in an ecologically fragile and seismic region with a history of devastating Glacier Lake Outburst Flood (GLOF), landslides and earthquakes. Increases in temperature could increase the
Debate
The European Science Foundation (ESF) and the French Foundation of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) (within the Entre-Sciences programme) have agreed to jointly develop a new conference
IPCC Working Group I
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IPCC Working Group II
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IPCC Working Group I and III
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The Post-Kyoto
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Round Table
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Intervenants et intervenantes
En poste à l'Università del Molise (en 2022)
Professeur au département d'agriculture de l'Université fédérale d'agriculture, Makurdi (UAM) (2008)
Chercheuse au département de géologie et de sciences environnementales de l'université Ben Gurion (2008)
Botaniste, directeur du département de botanique du Muséum de Stuttgart (depuis1923)
Météorologue et climatologue qui exerce au National Center for Atmospheric research à Boulder, Colorado (2008)
Économiste à l'ADEME depuis 2006 (2008)
Directeur de recherche, Environnement Méditerranéen et Modélisation des Agro-Hydrosystèmes INRA, Avignon (2015)
Conseiller développement durable chez Total (2008)
Climatologue. Directeur de recherche, Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l'environnement (LSCE, UMR 8212), Université Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Gif-sur-Yvette, Essonne (en 2018)
Thèse de doctorat en Physique-météorologie-océanologie soutenue en 1991 à l'Université de Paris 6
Directeur de thèse à l'Université de Paris 6 en 2006 et 2008
En poste : Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Allemagne. Directeur de Recherche (CNRS) et Professeur d’Ecologie Globale, Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d’Ecologie Marine et Continentale (IMBE), Aix-en-Provence (en 2012)
Chercheur à l'Institut des Hautes Etudes en Administration Publique (IDHEAP) et enseignant à la Faculté des géosciences et de l'environnement de l'Université de Lausanne.
En poste au département d'économie de l'OCDE - Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques (2008)
Chercheur à Météo France, (2005)
Docteur en sciences environnementales. Chercheur à l'université d'Oxford (en 2008)
Enseignant-chercheur à l'institut des politiques territoriales et de l'environnement humain de l'université de Lausanne (en 2009). Titulaire d'un doctorat de philosophie de l'environnement à Paris 1 en 2014
Chef de projet sur les impacts du changement climatique à l'Agence européenne pour l'environnement (2008)
Spécialiste du climat. Chercheur à l'Universidad Complutense de Madrid (en 2008)
Membre de l'Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître à l'université catholique de Louvain (en 2009)
Directeur de recherche au Centre Européen de Recherche et d'Enseignement des Géosciences de l'Environnement, CNRS, Université Aix-Marseille III (en 2015)
École nationale de météorologie, CIRED. Économiste à la Banque mondiale (2016).
Chercheur au Centre international de recherche sur l'environnement et le développement (en 1986). - Directeur d'études à l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (en 2000). - Membre du GIEC (en 2007). - Économiste, directeur de recherche au CNRS, directeur d'études à l'EHESS et ancien directeur du Centre international de recherches sur l'environnement et le développement (en 2015)
Politologue. Professeur,Universität Salzburg, Autriche (en 1996) Ecrit aussi en anglais
Chercheuse au State Hydrological Institute de Russie (2008)
Membre de la Pennsylvania State University. Directeur du Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC). Ph. D. en géologie et géophysique à l'université de Yale.
Enseigne au département d'économie de l'University of California, Santa Barbara. Travaille sur les interaction entre économie et environnement.
Doctorant en économie au Magdalen College Oxford (2008)
Professeur au Département des sciences biologiques à l'Université du Québec à Montréal (2008)
Responsable du Groupe de recherche climatique du Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM) de Météo-France (en 2009). - Climatologue et membre de l'association Météo et Climat (en 2023)
Professeur en ingénierie civile, University of the Bundeswehr Munich, Allemagne (en 2024)
Membre de jury d'une thèse en Mécanique à Paris Sciences et Lettres en 2019
Experte en gestion de risque et de crise. Enseignante invitée à la Northumbria University (2008)
En poste à l'INRA - UE Agroclim (Avignon) en 2004
Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, U. S. A (2008)
Professeur. En poste, Swedish Council for planning and coordination of reseach, S-11385 Stockholm (en 1993) Ecrit aussi en anglais
Université de Toulon
Professeur, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (en 2014)
Physicienne du climat, membre du Groupe d'experts intergouvernemental sur l'évolution du climat des Nations Unies et l'un des auteurs du rapport du GIEC (2008)
Professeur associé de Géomorphologie à l'Université de Poznan (Pologne) en 2012.