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Threats From Climate Change Are Increasing For Natural World Heritage Sites, Martin Falk, Eva Hagsten
Threats From Climate Change Are Increasing For Natural World Heritage Sites, Martin Falk, Eva Hagsten
GSTC Academic Symposium - In conjunction with the GSTC Global Conference Sweden April 23, 2024
The aim of the paper is to analyse the occurrence and intensity of threats to Natural World Heritage Sites from climate change as assessed by IUCN experts. The data comes from the Conservation Outlook Assessment database, which covers 250 sites for three time periods (2014, 2017 and 2020). The threat of climate change is broadly defined and includes temperature extremes, rapidly disappearing glaciers, coral bleaching, droughts, desertification, rising temperatures and rising sea levels. Simultaneous probit and ordered models with individual site effects are used to analyse the occurrence and intensity of both a perceived actual and a potential threat.
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