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

Public Engagements

Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
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

Research

Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy
Change of direction - the resilience plan: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, 29 July, 2024

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“Change of direction – the resilience plan”: the Israeli Climate Forum Conference, University of Haifa, July 29, 2024
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Muddy Waters: Design Thinking for Understanding the Multi-Organizational Problem Space of the Water Sector
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Conceptualizing Age-Friendliness in Workplaces: Proposing a New Multidimensional Model

By: Eppler-Hattab R., Meshoulam I., Doron I.
Published in: Gerontologist
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Creating age-friendly workplace environments is considered a central organizational approach for addressing the challeng (more…)

Seasonal niche tracking of climate emerges at the population level in a migratory bird: Multiscale seasonal niche tracking

By: Fandos G., Rotics S., Sapir N., Fiedler W., Kaatz M., Wikelski M., Nathan R., Zurell D.
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Seasonal animal migration is a widespread phenomenon. At the species level, it has been shown that many migratory animal (more…)

Genomic analysis of european drosophila melanogaster populations reveals longitudinal structure, continent-wide selection, and previously unknown DNA viruses

By: Kapun M., Barron M.G., Staubach F., Obbard D.J., Axel W. Wiberg R., Vieira J., Goubert C., Rota-Stabelli O., Kankare M., Bogaerts-Marquez M., Haudry A., Waidele L., Kozeretska I., Pasyukova E.G., Loeschcke V., Pascual M., Vieira C.P., Serga S., Montchamp-Moreau C., Abbott J., Gibert P., Porcelli D., Posnien N., Sanchez-Gracia A., Grath S., Sucena E., Bergland A.O., Guerreiro M.P.G., Onder B.S., Argyridou E., Guio L., Schou M.F., Deplancke B., Vieira C., Ritchie M.G., Zwaan B.J., Tauber E., Orengo D.J., Puerma E., Aguade M., Schmidt P., Parsch J., Betancourt A.J., Flatt T., Gonzalez J.
Published in: Molecular Biology and Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Genetic variation is the fuel of evolution, with standing genetic variation especially important for short-term evolutio (more…)

Long-term heightened larval production in nursery-bred coral transplants

By: Horoszowski-Fridman Y.B., Izhaki I., Rinkevich B.
Published in: Basic and Applied Ecology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The ‘gardening coral reefs’ method is part of the approaches proposed for counteracting the substantial impacts of globa (more…)

Magnetostratigraphy and Paleoenvironments of the Kuntila Lake Sediments, Southern Israel: Implications for Late Cenozoic Climate Variability at the Northern Fringe of the Saharo-Arabian Desert Belt

By: Larrasoaña J.C., Waldmann N., Mischke S., Avni Y., Ginat H.
Published in: Frontiers in Earth Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The Negev Desert in southern Israel hosts a number of late Cenozoic lacustrine and palustrine sedimentary sequences that (more…)

The rise and fall of viticulture in the Late Antique Negev Highlands reconstructed from archaeobotanical and ceramic data

By: Fuks D., Bar-Oz G., Tepper Y., Erickson-Gini T., Langgut D., Weissbrod L., Weiss E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: The international scope of the Mediterranean wine trade in Late Antiquity raises important questions concerning sustaina (more…)

Interaction of climate change with effects of conspecific and heterospecific density on reproduction

By: Møller A.P., Balbontín J., Dhondt A.A., Adriaensen F., Artemyev A., Bańbura J., Barba E., Biard C., Blondel J., Bouvier J.-C., Camprodon J., Cecere F., Charter M., Cichoń M., Cusimano C., Dubiec A., Doligez B., Eens M., Eeva T., Ferns P.N., Forsman J.T., Goldshtein A., Goodenough A.E., Gosler A.G., Gustafsson L., Harnist I., Hartley I.R., Heeb P., Hinsley S.A., Jacob S., Järvinen A., Juškaitis R., Korpimäki E., Krams I., Laaksonen T., Leclercq B., Lehikoinen E., Loukola O., Mainwaring M.C., Mänd R., Massa B., Matthysen E., Mazgajski T.D., Merino S., Mitrus C., Mönkkönen M., Nager R.G., Nilsson J.-Å., Nilsson S.G., Norte A.C., von Numers M., Orell M., Pimentel C.S., Pinxten R., Priedniece I., Remeš V., Richner H., Robles H., Rytkönen S., Senar J.C., Seppänen J.T., da Silva L.P., Slagsvold T., Solonen T., Sorace A., Stenning M.J., Török J., Tryjanowski P., van Noordwijk A.J., Walankiewicz W., Lambrechts M.M.
Published in: Oikos
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: We studied the relationship between temperature and the coexistence of great tit Parus major and blue tit Cyanistes caer (more…)

Source shifts to periplatform deposits during the early to middle Miocene in response to climatic and oceanographic forcing, Maldives, western Indian Ocean

By: Bialik O.M., Reolid J., Betzler C., Eberli G.P., Waldmann N.D.
Published in: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Periplatform carbonate ooze records a composite signal reflecting both the regional oceanographic state and the developm (more…)

Survival in the field of Pseudoperonospora cubensis and Plasmopara viticola after extreme hot and dry weather conditions in Israel

By: Cohen Y., Reuveni M., Gur L., Ovadia S.
Published in: Phytoparasitica
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Unprecedented hot and dry spells occurred all over Israel for six days, from May 16 to May 21, 2020. Maximal air tempera (more…)

Hydrology and water management in Israel and the southern Levant [Hydrologie und Wasserwirtschaft in Israel und der südlichen Levante]

By: Greenbaum N.
Published in: Geographische Rundschau
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Israel, located in a semi-arid Mediterranean to arid climate region, similar to other countries in the southern Levant, (more…)

Genome evolution of blind subterranean mole rats: Adaptive peripatric versus sympatric speciation

By: Li K., Zhang S., Song X., Weyrich A., Wang Y., Liu X., Wan N., Liu J., Lovy M., Cui H., Frenkel V., Titievsky A., Panov J., Brodsky L., Nevo E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Speciation mechanisms remain controversial. Two speciation models occur in Israeli subterranean mole rats, genus Spalax: (more…)

Salt pans as a new archaeological sea-level proxy: A test case from Dalmatia, Croatia

By: Bechor B., Sivan D., Miko S., Hasan O., Grisonic M., Rossi I.R., Lorentzen B., Artioli G., Ricci G., Ivelja T., Spada G., Brook A.
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2020 |  Link
Description: Reconstruction of paleo relative sea level (RSL) is based on multi-proxy disciplines including archaeology. Saltpans, li (more…)

Negotiating a dual deficit: the work of student support between conservative audacity and tempered radicalism

By: Sapir A.
Published in: Studies in Higher Education
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Student support practitioners, who provide students with academic, emotional and social support, are integral to higher (more…)

Cave paleozoology in the Judean Desert: assembling records of Holocene wild mammal communities

By: Lazagabaster I.A., Égüez N., Ullman M., Porat R., Wachtel I., Davidovich U., Marom N.
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Long temporal records of Holocene wild mammal communities are essential to examine the role of human impacts and climati (more…)

The Importance of Security is in the Eye of the Beholder: Cultural, Organizational, and Personal Factors Affecting the Implementation of Security by Design

By: Arizon-Peretz R., Hadar I., Luria G.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Welfare & Health Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: AbstractSecurity by design is a recommended approach, addressing end-to-end security and privacy in the design of softwa (more…)

Mismatches of scale in the application of paleoclimatic research to Chinese archaeology

By: Jaffe Y.Y., Castellano L., Shelach-Lavi G., Campbell R.B.
Published in: Quaternary Research (United States)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Humanities  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Issues surrounding the difficult task of correlating archaeological and climatic trajectories are directly impacting the (more…)

Redox evolution and the development of oxygen minimum zones in the Eastern Mediterranean Levantine basin during the early Holocene

By: Zirks E., Krom M., Schmiedl G., Katz T., Xiong Y., Alcott L.J., Poulton S.W., Goodman-Tchernov B.
Published in: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: Oxygen Minimum Zones (OMZs) are expanding in modern oceans due to anthropogenically-driven climate and environmental cha (more…)

Climate change impacts on vector-borne diseases in Europe: Risks, predictions and actions

By: Paz S.
Published in: The Lancet Regional Health – Europe
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2021 |  Link
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Diatom algae-indicators of water quality in the lower Zarafshan river, Uzbekistan

By: Barinova S., Mamanazarova K.
Published in: Water (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: This work is the first, the purpose of which was a comprehensive assessment of the ecological state of the lower reaches (more…)

Cooling degree models and future energy demand in the residential sector. A seven-country case study

By: Castaño-Rosa R., Barrella R., Sánchez-Guevara C., Barbosa R., Kyprianou I., Paschalidou E., Thomaidis N.S., Dokupilova D., Gouveia J.P., Kádár J., Hamed T.A., Palma P.
Published in: Sustainability (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2021 |  Link
Description: The intensity and duration of hot weather and the number of extreme weather events, such as heatwaves, are increasing, l (more…)