SDG 13:
CLIMATE ACTION

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts*

University Impact Ranking for SDG 13
U of Haifa 0/100 

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92.8

SDG13 Highlights

Research

Middle-Out Perspective (MOP) to Drive Renewable Energy

Public Engagements

Prof. Shlomit Paz to Interdisciplinary Experts Committee for Examining the Climate in Israel

Public Engagements

Combating the Urban Heat Island, protecting vulnerable populations in Haifa
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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…)

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…)

Temporal-Scale Analysis of Environmental Controls on Sea Spray Aerosol Production Over the South Pacific Gyre

By: Dror T., Lehahn Y., Altaratz O., Koren I.
Published in: Geophysical Research Letters
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: An understanding of sea spray aerosol (SSA) production is needed to better assess its influence on climate. Using satell (more…)

Refinement of Miocene sea level and monsoon events from the sedimentary archive of the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

By: Betzler C., Eberli G.P., Lüdmann T., Reolid J., Kroon D., Reijmer J.J.G., Swart P.K., Wright J., Young J.R., Alvarez-Zarikian C., Alonso-García M., Bialik O.M., Blättler C.L., Guo J.A., Haffen S., Horozal S., Inoue M., Jovane L., Lanci L., Laya J.C., Hui Mee A.L., Nakakuni M., Nath B.N., Niino K., Petruny L.M., Pratiwi S.D., Slagle A.L., Sloss C.R., Su X., Yao Z.
Published in: Progress in Earth and Planetary Science
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: International Ocean Discovery Program (IODP) Expedition 359 cored sediments from eight borehole locations in the carbona (more…)

Climatic uncertainty in the Mediterranean Basin and its possible relevance to important economic sectors

By: Kutiel H.
Published in: Atmosphere
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The Mediterranean Basin is among the densest populated regions of the world with forecasts for a further population incr (more…)

Interactions in soil-microbe-plant system: Adaptation to stressed agriculture

By: Shilev S., Azaizeh H., Vassilev N., Georgiev D., Babrikova I.
Published in: Microbial Interventions in Agriculture and Environment: Volume 1 : Research Trends, Priorities and Prospects
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The intensive use of agrochemicals, increasing population, and imprudent anthropogenic activities impose a great concern (more…)

Methane hydrate stability and potential resource in the levant basin, southeastern mediterranean sea

By: Tayber Z., Meilijson A., Ben-Avraham Z., Makovsky Y.
Published in: Geosciences (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: To estimate the potential inventory of natural gas hydrates (NGH) in the Levant Basin, southeastern Mediterranean Sea, w (more…)

Climate change vulnerability in a tropical region based on environmental and socio-economic factors

By: Sarun S., Ghermandi A., Sheela A.M., Justus J., Vineetha P.
Published in: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2018 |  Link
Description: The understanding of the regional and local dimensions of vulnerability due to climate change is essential to develop ap (more…)

Optimal Irrigation with Perfect Weekly Forecasts versus Imperfect Seasonal Forecasts

By: Jamal A., Linker R., Housh M.
Published in: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This study examines the impact of weekly and seasonal weather forecasts on the optimal irrigation scheduling problem. We (more…)

Can we detect centennial sea-level variations over the last three thousand years in Israeli archaeological records?

By: Dean S., Horton B.P., Evelpidou N., Cahill N., Spada G., Sivan D.
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Archaeological remains are valuable relative sea-level (RSL) indicators in Israel, a tectonically stable coast with mino (more…)

Character, rates, and environmental significance of holocene dust accumulation in archaeological hilltop ruins in the southern levant

By: Lucke B., Roskin J., Vanselow K.A., Bruins H.J., Abu-Jaber N., Deckers K., Lindauer S., Porat N., Reimer P.J., Bäumler R., Erickson-Gini T., Kouki P.
Published in: Geosciences (Switzerland)
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Loess accumulated in the Negev desert during the Pleistocene and primary and secondary loess remains cover large parts o (more…)

The effects of long-distance migration on the evolution of moult strategies in Western-Palearctic passerines

By: Kiat Y., Izhaki I., Sapir N.
Published in: Biological Reviews
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Natural Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Although feathers are the unifying characteristic of all birds, our understanding of the causes, mechanisms, patterns an (more…)

Do treaties matter? Climate change, water variability, and cooperation along transboundary river basins

By: Dinar S., Katz D., De Stefano L., Blankespoor B.
Published in: Political Geography
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Annual and seasonal water variability is predicted to intensify due to climate change. River basins lacking institutiona (more…)

Wet and dry tropical forests show opposite successional pathways in wood density but converge over time

By: Poorter L., Rozendaal D.M.A., Bongers F., de Almeida-Cortez J.S., Almeyda Zambrano A.M., Álvarez F.S., Andrade J.L., Villa L.F.A., Balvanera P., Becknell J.M., Bentos T.V., Bhaskar R., Boukili V., Brancalion P.H.S., Broadbent E.N., César R.G., Chave J., Chazdon R.L., Colletta G.D., Craven D., de Jong B.H.J., Denslow J.S., Dent D.H., DeWalt S.J., García E.D., Dupuy J.M., Durán S.M., Espírito Santo M.M., Fandiño M.C., Fernandes G.W., Finegan B., Moser V.G., Hall J.S., Hernández-Stefanoni J.L., Jakovac C.C., Junqueira A.B., Kennard D., Lebrija-Trejos E., Letcher S.G., Lohbeck M., Lopez O.R., Marín-Spiotta E., Martínez-Ramos M., Martins S.V., Massoca P.E.S., Meave J.A., Mesquita R., Mora F., de Souza Moreno V., Müller S.C., Muñoz R., Muscarella R., de Oliveira Neto S.N., Nunes Y.R.F., Ochoa-Gaona S., Paz H., Peña-Claros M., Piotto D., Ruíz J., Sanaphre-Villanueva L., Sanchez-Azofeifa A., Schwartz N.B., Steininger M.K., Thomas W.W., Toledo M., Uriarte M., Utrera L.P., van Breugel M., van der Sande M.T., van der Wal H., Veloso M.D.M., Vester H.F.M., Vieira I.C.G., Villa P.M., Williamson G.B., Wright S.J., Zanini K.J., Zimmerman J.K., Westoby M.
Published in: Nature Ecology and Evolution
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate for agricultural use and pastureland, but also regrow naturally throu (more…)

Elevated mutation and selection in wild emmer wheat in response to 28 years of global warming

By: Fu Y.-B., Peterson G.W., Horbach C., Konkin D.J., Beiles A., Nevo E.
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Global warming has been documented to threaten wild plants with strong selection pressures, but how plant populations re (more…)

Publicity waves based on manipulated geoscientific data suggesting climatic trigger for majority of tsunami findings in the mediterranean – response to ‘tsunamis in the geological record: Making waves with a cautionary tale from the mediterranean’ by marriner et al. (2017)

By: Vött A., Bruins H.J., Gawehn M., Goodman-Tchernov B.N., De Martini P.M., Kelletat D., Mastronuzzi G., Reicherter K., Röbke B.R., Scheffers A., Willershäuser T., Avramidis P., Bellanova P., Costa P.J.M., Finkler C., Hadler H., Koster B., Lario J., Reinhardt E., Mathes-Schmidt M., Ntageretzis K., Pantosti D., Papanikolaou I., Sansò P., Scicchitano G., Smedile A., Szczuciński W.
Published in: Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Marine Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: This article is a response to the publication by Nick Marriner, David Kaniewski, Christophe Morhange, Clément Flaux, Mat (more…)

Irrigation optimization under a limited water supply by the integration of modern approaches into traditional water management on the cotton fields

By: Polinova M., Salinas K., Bonfante A., Brook A.
Published in: Remote Sensing
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units: Social Sciences  | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The ability to effectively develop agriculture with limited water resources is an important strategic objective to face (more…)

The role of landscape and history on the genetic structure of peripheral populations of the Near Eastern fire salamander, Salamandra infraimmaculata, in Northern Israel

By: Sinai I., Segev O., Weil G., Oron T., Merilä J., Templeton A.R., Blaustein L., Greenbaum G., Blank L.
Published in: Conservation Genetics
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Genetic studies on core versus peripheral populations have yielded many patterns. This diversity in genetic patterns may (more…)

The algal symbiont modifies the transcriptome of the scleractinian coral euphyllia paradivisa during heat stress

By: Meron D., Maor-Landaw K., Weizman E., Ben-Asher H.W., Eyal G., Banin E., Loya Y., Levy O.
Published in: Microorganisms
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: The profound mutualistic symbiosis between corals and their endosymbiotic counterparts, Symbiodiniaceae algae, has been (more…)

Lost value assessment of bathing beaches due to sea level rise: a case study of the Mediterranean coast of Israel

By: Bitan M., Zviely D.
Published in: Journal of Coastal Conservation
SDGs : SDG 13  |  Units:   | Time: 2019 |  Link
Description: Economic losses from public bathing beaches, due to the potential threat of sea level rise (SLR), require economic analy (more…)