scholarly journals Hydropower Future: Between Climate Change, Renewable Deployment, Carbon and Fuel Prices

Water ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 1197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alessandro Ranzani ◽  
Mattia Bonato ◽  
Epari Patro ◽  
Ludovic Gaudard ◽  
Carlo De Michele
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Smooth Transition ◽  
Hydropower Plant ◽  
Distributed Hydrological Model ◽  
Fuel Prices ◽  
New Energy ◽  
The Right

Hydropower represents an interesting technology: affordable, renewable, and flexible. However, it must cope with climate changes and new energy policies that jeopardize its future. A smooth transition to sustainability requires decision makers to assess the future perspectives of hydropower: about its future revenue and related uncertainty. This investigation requires a multidisciplinary approach as both streamflow and energy mix will evolve. We simulated future streamflow based on eight climate scenarios using a semi-distributed hydrological model for our case study, the Tremorgio hydropower plant located in southern Switzerland. Next, using a hydropower management model we generated income according to these streamflows and twenty-eight electricity price scenarios. Our results indicate that climate change will modify the seasonality of inflows and volumes exploitable for hydropower generation. However, adaptive strategies in the management of reservoirs could minimize revenue losses/maximize revenue gains. In addition, most market scenarios project an increase in revenues, except in the case of high wind and solar energy penetration. Markets do not provide the right incentive, since the deployment of intermittent energy would benefit from more flexible hydropower.

Would Rainfed Agriculture Be the Right Option Under Climate Change Scenarios? A Case Study from Centro Region of Portugal

2018 ◽  
pp. 391-418
Author(s):  
Albano Figueiredo ◽  
Carolina Alves ◽  
Joaquim Patriarca ◽  
Andreia Saavedra Cardoso ◽  
Paula Castro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Rainfed Agriculture ◽  
The Right

19. Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Havemann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
State Sovereignty ◽  
Group Rights ◽  
Indigenous Group ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines issues surrounding the human rights of Indigenous peoples. The conceptual framework for this chapter is informed by three broad, interrelated, and interdependent types of human rights: the right to existence, the right to self-determination, and individual human rights. After describing who Indigenous peoples are according to international law, the chapter considers the centuries of ambivalence about the recognition of Indigenous peoples. It then discusses the United Nations's establishment of a regime for Indigenous group rights and presents a case study of the impact of climate change on Indigenous peoples. It concludes with a reflection on the possibility of accommodating Indigenous peoples' self-determination with state sovereignty.

scholarly journals Indoor Multi-Risk Scenarios of Climate Change Effects on Building Materials in Scandinavian Countries

Geosciences ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 347 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arian Loli ◽  
Chiara Bertolin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Change Impact ◽  
The Right ◽  
Time Of Intervention ◽  
Far Future

Within the built environment, historic buildings are among the most vulnerable structures to the climate change impact. In the Scandinavian countries, the risk from climatic changes is more pronounced and the right adaptation interventions should be chosen properly. This article, through a multidisciplinary approach, links the majority of climate-induced decay variables for different building materials with the buildings’ capacity to change due to their protection status. The method tends to be general as it assesses the decay level for different building materials, sizes, and locations. The application of the method in 38 locations in the Scandinavian countries shows that the risk from climatic changes is imminent. In the far future (2071–2100), chemical and biological decays will slightly increase, especially in the southern part of the peninsula, while the mechanical decay of the building materials kept indoors will generally decrease. Furthermore, the merge of the decay results with the protection level of the building will serve as a good indicator to plan the right level and time of intervention for adapting to the future climatic changes.

scholarly journals A NEW CONTEXT AND AESTHETICS OF SERBIAN TRADITIONAL CUISINE IN THE AGE OF PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Stojanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Food Science ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Right

The new millennium brings new twists, as we are witnessing old becoming new again and cultures and cuisines repeating themselves. Culture has always followed or imposed contemporary challenges. Consequently, food culture also participates in global occurrences, such as the recurrence of economic collapses, health cataclysms, natural disasters, the consequences of climate change, etc. The 2020 global pandemic has indicated that the planet is not going in the right direction. The aim is to observe deeper meanings and paradoxes, predict the consequences and describe the role of new approaches and technologies in the traditional gastronomy of the region on the basis of empirical evidence and a case study for the location of Serbia. The dynamics of experience, authenticity, re-representations in the form of new aesthetics are being examined. New culinologies, as a combination of culinary art and food science, will define the future of food in the age of pandemic and as well as new challenges in general, in order to neutralize them or use their power for the sake of humanity.

scholarly journals GEOSPATIAL TOOLS FOR PREVENTION OF URBAN FLOODS CASE STUDY: RIVER OF EL MALEH (CITY OF MOHAMMEDIA – MOROCCO)

2017 ◽  
Vol IV-4/W4 ◽  
pp. 295-301
Author(s):  
M. S. Chaabane ◽  
N. Abouali ◽  
T. Boumeaza ◽  
M. Zahouily
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Return Periods ◽  
Urban Floods ◽  
Geospatial Tools ◽  
Risk Areas ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Today, the prevention and the risk management occupy an important part of public policy activities and are considered as major components in the process of sustainable development of territories. Due to the expansion of IT processes, in particular the geomatics sciences, decision-makers are increasingly requesting for digital tools before, during and after the risks of natural disasters. Both, the geographic information system (GIS) and the remote sensing are considered as geospatial and fundamental tools which help to understand the evolution of risks, to analyze their temporality and to make the right decisions. <br><br> The historic events (on 1996, 2002 and 2010) which struck the city of Mohammedia and having caused the consequent damage to vital infrastructure and private property, require a thorough and rational analyze to benefit from it and well manage the floods phenomena. This article present i) the contribution of the geospatial tools for the floods simulation of Oued of el Maleh city at various return periods. These tools allow the demarcation of flood-risk areas and so to make floods simulations in several scenarios (decadal flood, 20-year flood, 50-year flood, 100-year flood, 500-year flood &amp; also millennial flood) and besides (ii) present a synthesis map combining the territorial stakes superposed on the flood scenarios at different periods of return.

scholarly journals Data Warehouse Design with Kimball Method: Case Study of Fahrenheit Manufacturing Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 604
Author(s):  
Widianty Widianty
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Systems ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Senior Managers ◽  
Core System ◽  
Business World ◽  
The Right

Competition in the business world that increasingly stringent requires management to make decisions accurately and quickly. It is also felt by Farhenheit as entrepreneurs. To achieve thier forte in competing in theglobal competition, he needs systems like strategic decision makers which is up-to-date reliable and fast. Then the solution of area manufatur datawarehouse design is necessary to support the above objectives,i.e. : the right and fast decisions. However, Fahrenheit only has ERP as their core system currently and they do not have management support system. They have some difficulty to understand some problems and do better analysis. There are some datawarehouse development methodologies. Methods that will be used for the development of datawarehouse design is Kimball Method. Kimball method was chosen because of its development process that follows the business process is very suitable for the development of datawarehouse gradually to a company.Kimball's method gives a mart for the related business processes.This study is conducted by interview and survey from several senior managers and directors in Fahrenheit to know about their requirement and how they do analysis currently.

scholarly journals Investigation of climate change impacts on hydropower generation: the case of a run-of-river small hydropower plant in North Western Greece

2021 ◽  
Vol 899 (1) ◽  
pp. 012026
Author(s):  
C Skoulikaris ◽  
K Kasimis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Regional Climate Models ◽  
Hydropower Plant ◽  
Small Hydropower ◽  
Hydropower Plants ◽  
Run Of River

Abstract Services and uses arising from surface water‘s availability, such as hydropower production, are bound to be affected by climate change. The object of the research is to evaluate climate change impacts on energy generation produced by run-of-river small hydropower plants with the use of future river discharges derived from two up-to-date Regional Climate Models. For doing so, the hydropower simulation model HEC-ResSim, calibrated and validated over real power data, was used to simulate the generated energy in the two future periods of 2031-2060 and 2071-2100. The future river discharges in the case study area are derived from the hydrological model E-HYPE that uses as forcing the climatic variables of the CSC-REMO2009-MPI-ESM-LR and KNMI-RACMO22E-EC-EARTH climate models under two Representative Concentration Pathways, namely RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The research outputs demonstrate a decrease of the generated energy varying from 2.86% to 25.79% in comparison to the reference period of 1971-2000. However, in most of the simulated scenarios the decrease is less than 10.0%, while increased energy production is projected for one of the scenarios. Overall, it can be concluded that the case study run-of-river small hydropower plant will be marginally affected by climate change when the decrease of the relevant river discharges is up to 10-15%.

scholarly journals How Technology Intelligence is Applied In Different Contexts?

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-118
Author(s):  
Leandro Rodrigues Gonçalves ◽  
Fernando Carvalho De Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Petrochemical Industry ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Competitive Intelligence ◽  
Know How ◽  
Technology Intelligence ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Right

Technology Intelligence is one of the many ways of applying Competitive Intelligence. As CI, TI intends to detect and process weak signals in order to identify opportunities and threats and provide actionable information. There is still a gap in reported cases of companies actually applying Technology Intelligence. This article intends to answer the research question: How companies build an actionable technology intelligence project? Case Study and Action-research approaches were applied for this research. The article describes two application cases: a research institute with a petrochemical industry as a client; and a private petrochemical industry. Companies seem to not know how to deal with Technology Intelligence. When outsourcing, they are more willing to pay for an extremely comprehensive project that not necessarily needs to be so deep and complex. When doing it internally, decision makers are not willing to wait and give the TI analysts resources to conduct a project in the right deepness and complexity. It seems like a “goldilocks problem” applied to Technology Intelligence.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document