Agenda
*All presentations will be in the Forgardur (forecourt) underground basement room of the IMO
building at Bustadavegur 7, unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, 13 November
Time Agenda Item
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome and Introductions
- T Jónsson and E Hanna
09:15 – 09:30 Meeting Structure and Overview
- J Overland and E Hanna
09:30 – 10:40
09:30 – 09:45
09:45 – 10:05
10:05 – 10:25
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REFERENCE
Jóhannesson, T., H. Björnsson, F. Pálsson, O. Sigurðsson and Þ. Þorsteinsson. 2011. Lidar
mapping of the Snæfellsjökull ice cap, western Iceland, Jökull, 61,19–32.
Lidar measurements of the cryosphere
Reykholt, Iceland, June 20–21, 2013
12 Csatho and others
The ICESat-2 mission: design
/media/vatnafar/joklar/Reykholt-abstracts.pdf
/ design,
availability, materials, ICT,
modal split)
26.8.2011Adriaan Perrels/IL 5
Categorising stages of adaptation
Passive Adaptation
- automatic in nature
and economy
- only ex post measures
(no anticipation)
Active Adaptation
- automatic in nature
and economy
- ex ante and ex post
policies
Emission scenario dependent
baseline (A1-T, B1, A2, etc.)
Reference costs and benefits
/media/loftslag/Perrels-CBA.pdf
scale:
The Hierarchy Theory
• Emerged as part of a movement toward a general science of
complexity
• Rooted in various other disciplines but operationalised by
ecologists in the 1970s and 1980s
• Key references:
Allen, T. F. H. and T. B. Starr. 1982. Hierarchy: perspectives for ecological
complexity. University Chicago Press.
Allen T. F. H. and T. Hoekstra. 1992. Toward a unified ecology
/media/loftslag/Kok_1-scenarios-lecture-1.pdf
Cooperation and
Development, Paris, 2006).
2. R. H. Webb, J. L. Betancourt, U.S. Geol. Surv. Water-
Supply Paper 2379, 1 (1992).
3. C. A. Woodhouse, S. T. Gray, D. M. Meko, Water Resour.
Res. 42, W05415 (2006).
4. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis,
Contribution of Working Group (WG) 1 to the Fourth
Assessment Report of the IPCC (AR4
/media/loftslag/Milly_etal-2008-Stationarity-dead-Science.pdf