He has interests in climate extremes and how these are likely to change in the future.
Some of these items have regional variants, usually to deal with climate extremes.
Evidence suggests that businesses are impacted by climate extremes.
There have been other changes in climate extremes, e.g., floods and tropical cyclones, but these changes are more difficult to identify.
Finding the climate extreme, and the area dry and dusty, he had permitted the bhikshus to wear shoes here.
"A forest garden system is very diverse and will cope much better with climate extremes than a field of grass, wheat or vegetables," he says.
For example, Marshall's seedless green ash is described as tolerant of climate extremes, deep-rooted and fast-growing.
Native plants seem to have a built-in tolerance to climate extremes and have thus far done well.
The stress comes from air pollution and from climate extremes we have seen in recent years from the greenhouse effect.
Adaptation to climate extremes has long been derided by many environmentalists as defeatism.