SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

University Impact Ranking for SDG 13
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SDG13 Highlights

COP Conference of Parties, 29th session, UN Climate Change, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2024, Flags

Public Engagements

University of Haifa is Observer at the 29th annual Conference of the Parties (COP) for Climate Change, November 2024
Change of direction - the resilience plan: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, 29 July, 2024

Public Engagements

“Change of direction – the resilience plan”: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, July 29, 2024

Research

Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy
Muddy Water Design Thinking Multi Organizational solution

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Muddy Waters: Design Thinking for Understanding the Multi-Organizational Problem Space of the Water Sector

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Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
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Increased sedimentation following the Neolithic Revolution in the Southern Levant

By: Lu Y., Waldmann N., Nadel D., Marco S.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The Dead Sea drainage basin offers a rare combination of well-documented substantial climate change, intense tectonics a (more…)

Recent changes and relations among drought, vegetation and wildfires in the Eastern Mediterranean: The case of Israel

By: Turco M., Levin N., Tessler N., Saaroni H.
Published in: Global and Planetary Change
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: On-going changes in drought, vegetation and wildfires in Israel provide a key example of possible future evolution in tr (more…)

Sedum-dominated green-roofs in a semi-arid region increase CO2 concentrations during the dry season

By: Agra H., Klein T., Vasl A., Shalom H., Kadas G., Blaustein L.
Published in: Science of the Total Environment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Green roofs are expected to absorb and store carbon in plants and soils and thereby reduce the high CO2 concentration le (more…)

The earliest evidence for Upper Paleolithic occupation in the Armenian Highlands at Aghitu-3 Cave

By: Kandel A.W., Gasparyan B., Allué E., Bigga G., Bruch A.A., Cullen V.L., Frahm E., Ghukasyan R., Gruwier B., Jabbour F., Miller C.E., Taller A., Vardazaryan V., Vasilyan D., Weissbrod L.
Published in: Journal of Human Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: With its well-preserved archaeological and environmental records, Aghitu-3 Cave permits us to examine the settlement pat (more…)

Will leading by example help in mitigating climate change? A comment on ‘the economics of leadership in climate change mitigation’ by Gregor Schwerhoff

By: Reingewertz Y.
Published in: Climate Policy
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: A recent article suggests that ‘the leader (in climate change mitigation) sets an example with the intention of motivati (more…)

Spatial and temporal variability of dryness characteristics in Turkey

By: Kutiel H., Türkeş M.
Published in: International Journal of Climatology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Drought may occur in almost every climatic region on Earth at any time. Understanding the nature and magnitude of the dr (more…)

Fire induced rock spalls as long-term traps for ash

By: Shtober-Zisu N., Brook A., Kopel D., Roberts D., Ichoku C., Wittenberg L.
Published in: Catena
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Severe fires accelerate rock weathering by spalling and exfoliation, creating abundant peels, flakes or spalls. In the f (more…)

Why Do Partisan Audiences Participate? Perceived Public Opinion as the Mediating Mechanism

By: Dvir-Gvirsman S., Garrett R.K., Tsfati Y.
Published in: Communication Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The bulk of current literature on partisan media explores its various detrimental influences on the democratic sphere. T (more…)

A glimpse of an ancient agricultural ecosystem based on remains of micromammals in the Byzantine Negev Desert

By: Fried T., Weissbrod L., Tepper Y., Bar-Oz G.
Published in: Royal Society Open Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: It is widely believed that Byzantine agriculture in the Negev Desert (fourth to seventh century Common Era; CE), with wi (more…)

Middle to Late Epipaleolithic hunter-gatherer encampments at the Ashalim site, on a linear dune-like morphology, along dunefield margin water bodies

By: Vardi J., Marder O., Bookman R., Friesem D.E., Groman-Yeroslavski I., Edeltin L., Porat N., Boaretto E., Roskin J.
Published in: Quaternary International
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This study presents distinct and small task-specific sites associated with the Middle to Late Epipalaeolithic period exp (more…)

Adaptive evolution of coagulation and blood properties in hypoxia tolerant Spalax in Israel

By: Danial-Farran N., Nasser N.J., Beiles A., Brenner B., Sarig G., Nevo E.
Published in: Journal of Zoology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: The subterranean blind mole rat (Spalax) is adapted to underground life stresses genomically, proteomically, and phenomi (more…)

Adaptive genetic differentiation and solar radiation in wild emmer wheat, triticum dicoccoides

By: Ren J., Chen L., Jin X., Yin X., Fu C., Nevo E., Peng J.
Published in: Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2017 |  Link
Description: Background: Microgeographic studies of molecular markers could reveal the nature and dynamics of genetic diversity and t (more…)

Comparison of various stochastic approaches for irrigation scheduling using seasonal climate forecasts

By: Jamal A., Linker R., Housh M.
Published in: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: This paper presents a modeling framework for real-time decision support for irrigation scheduling using probabilistic se (more…)

Leveraging organizational climate theory for understanding industry-academia collaboration

By: Sherman S., Hadar I., Luria G.
Published in: Information and Software Technology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Context: Industry-academia collaboration (IAC) in the field of software engineering is widely discussed in the literatur (more…)

Conservation planning under uncertainty in urban development and vegetation dynamics

By: Troupin D., Carmel Y.
Published in: PLoS ONE
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Systematic conservation planning is a framework for optimally locating and prioritizing areas for conservation. An often (more…)

Elevation patterns of plant diversity and recent altitudinal range shifts in Sinai’s high-mountain flora

By: Coals P., Shmida A., Vasl A., Duguny N.M., Gilbert F.
Published in: Journal of Vegetation Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Questions: Is there evidence of recent altitudinal range shifts in a hyper-arid Middle Eastern desert mountain flora? Ho (more…)

Seasonal aggregations of sharks near coastal power plants in Israel: An emerging phenomenon

By: Barash A., Pickholtz R., Pickholtz E., Blaustein L., Rilov G.
Published in: Marine Ecology Progress Series
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea are at extremely high risk, and their populations are rapidly declining. In the Eastern (more…)

Scientific Advice and Administrative Traditions: The Role of Chief Scientists in Climate Change Adaptation

By: Schmidt N.M., Teschner N., Negev M.
Published in: Review of Policy Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The role of the chief scientist (CS), a key administrative position in various Israeli ministries, is to fund policy-ori (more…)

Green roof and photovoltaic panel integration: Effects on plant and arthropod diversity and electricity production

By: Schindler B.Y., Blaustein L., Lotan R., Shalom H., Kadas G.J., Seifan M.
Published in: Journal of Environmental Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The combination of green roofs with photovoltaic (PV) panels has been proposed to provide synergistic benefits as the pa (more…)

Transcriptional response of the heat shock gene hsp70 aligns with differences in stress susceptibility of shallow-water corals from the Mediterranean Sea

By: Franzellitti S., Airi V., Calbucci D., Caroselli E., Prada F., Voolstra C.R., Mass T., Falini G., Fabbri E., Goffredo S.
Published in: Marine Environmental Research
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: Shallow-water corals of the Mediterranean Sea are facing a dramatic increase in water temperature due to climate change, (more…)