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This map is designed to help golf course developers and managers around the world to achieve best practices in sustainable course management. It shows the global distribution of climate zones that are suitable for the main types of turfgrass – cool season species and warm season species. The 'transition zone' is the climate zone in which neither cool nor warm season species are ideally suited.More...
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Scenario 1 – Baseline: An ideal scenario in which the atmospheric burdens of long-lived greenhouse gasses are held fixed at AD2000 levels.
Scenario 2 – New technologies: A future world of very rapid economic growth, but with equivalent rapid changes in economic structures toward a service and information economy, with reductions in material intensity, and the introduction of clean and resource-efficient technologies.
Scenario 3 - Steady increase: Carbon Dioxide (CO2) concentrations increase at a rate of 1% per year, until they double and then remain constant thereafter.
Scenario 4 - Rapid growth: A future world of very rapid economic growth, global population that peaks in mid-century and declines thereafter, and rapid introduction of new and more efficient technologies, with the development balanced across energy sources.
The climate change scenario maps were created using the same computer model as the map of turfgrass distribution. Instead of using climate observation data, the model was applied to future temperature trends on the basis of pre-defined scenarios identified by the IPCC.More...
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The golf course density map depicts the number of golf courses per 1000km2 (last updated June 2008).
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Increasing pressure on limited freshwater resources presents perhaps the greatest threat to golf courses across the globe. Natural water supply varies throughout the year with many regions receiving nearly 100% of their precipitation during a brief rainy season.More...
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