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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Facility•Potsdam, Germany•
About: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research is a facility organization based out in Potsdam, Germany. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Climate change & Global warming. The organization has 1519 authors who have published 5098 publications receiving 367023 citations.
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University of Copenhagen1, Humboldt University of Berlin2, Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology3, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt4, VU University Amsterdam5, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts6, Ghent University7, Norwegian University of Science and Technology8, University of Eastern Finland9, Aix-Marseille University10, University of Edinburgh11, University of Luxembourg12, University of Malta13, Charles University in Prague14, Technical University of Madrid15, Slovak Academy of Sciences16, Stockholm University17, Jagiellonian University18, University of West Hungary19, University of Tartu20, University of Latvia21, Wageningen University and Research Centre22, Spanish National Research Council23, University of the Aegean24, University of Bucharest25, University of Potsdam26, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research27, University of Tirana28
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the evolution of European land management over the past 200 years with the aim of identifying key episodes of changes in land management, and their underlying technological, institutional and economic drivers.
233 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that health care on average accounts for 5% of the national CO2 footprint making the sector comparable in importance to the food sector, and that the carbon intensity of the domestic energy system, the energy intensity of domestic economy and health care expenditure together explain half of the variance in per capita health carbon footprints.
Abstract: Climate change confronts the health care sector with a dual challenge. Accumulating climate impacts are putting an increased burden on the service provision of already stressed health care systems in many regions of the world. At the same time, the Paris agreement requires rapid emission reductions in all sectors of the global economy to stay well below the 2 °C target. This study shows that in OECD countries, China, and India, health care on average accounts for 5% of the national CO2 footprint making the sector comparable in importance to the food sector. Some countries have seen reduced CO2 emissions related to health care despite growing expenditures since 2000, mirroring their economy wide emission trends. The average per capita health carbon footprint across the country sample in 2014 was 0.6 tCO2, varying between 1.51 tCO2/cap in the US and 0.06 tCO2/cap in India. A statistical analysis shows that the carbon intensity of the domestic energy system, the energy intensity of the domestic economy, and health care expenditure together explain half of the variance in per capita health carbon footprints. Our results indicate that important leverage points exist inside and outside the health sector. We discuss our findings in the context of the existing literature on the potentials and challenges of reducing GHG emissions in the health and energy sector.
232 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a bottom-up quantification of local water availabilities taking account of environmental flow requirements is proposed, based on the conceptual and quantitative foundation of the recently suggested planetary boundary for freshwater (PB-Water).
231 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the hypothesis that the abrupt drainage of Laurentide lakes and associated rapid switch of the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation 8200 yr ago had a catastrophic influence on Neolithic civilisation in large parts of southeastern Europe, Anatolia, Cyprus, and the Near East.
231 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is introduced to estimate the proximity of climate sub-systems to non-linear thresholds by measuring the smallest decay rate of the system under investigation and to consider its trend.
Abstract: [1] A method is introduced to estimate the proximity of climate sub-systems to non-linear thresholds. We suggest to measure the smallest decay rate of the system under investigation and to consider its trend. We argue that this is the diagnostic variable most directly linked to the distance from a bifurcation threshold. With the climate model of intermediate complexity CLIMBER2 we demonstrate our method for the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. It is shown that proper analysis of paleo information could significantly reduce the uncertainty which plagues current estimates of the distance from the shutdown of the thermohaline circulation.
230 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carl Folke | 133 | 360 | 125990 |
| Adam Drewnowski | 106 | 486 | 41107 |
| Jürgen Kurths | 105 | 1038 | 62179 |
| Markus Reichstein | 103 | 386 | 53385 |
| Stephen Polasky | 99 | 354 | 59148 |
| Sandy P. Harrison | 96 | 329 | 34004 |
| Owen B. Toon | 94 | 424 | 32237 |
| Stephen Sitch | 94 | 262 | 52236 |
| Yong Xu | 88 | 1391 | 39268 |
| Dieter Neher | 85 | 424 | 26225 |
| Johan Rockström | 85 | 236 | 57842 |
| Jonathan A. Foley | 85 | 144 | 70710 |
| Robert J. Scholes | 84 | 253 | 37019 |
| Christoph Müller | 82 | 457 | 27274 |
| Robert J. Nicholls | 79 | 515 | 35729 |