Download or read book Understanding perceptions of climate change in South Carolina s coastal communities written by Lorna Marie Parkinson and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stakeholder Perceptions of Climate Change written by Priscilla Renee Morris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and Food Security written by Dr. Damla ÖZEKAN and published by Hiperlink Eğitim İletişim Yayın Gıda Sanayi ve Pazarlama Tic. Ltd. Şti.. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The causes of the climate change issue can be traced back to the Industrial Revolution. While there is an argument that global climate change does not actually exist and that global warming and cooling occur periodically within the Earth’s natural balance, prevailing scientific viewpoints assert that climate change is an immutable reality and will worsen in the coming years if no preventive measures are taken. Our study is based on the assumptions that global climate change exists and is human-induced. Climate change is a natural phenomenon that has always existed on Earth, occurring for millions of years. The long-term geological variations in the Earth’s climate represent natural climate change. However, in the last quarter of the 20th century, particularly with the increasing industrialization, the climate change that has occurred is artificial and anthropogenic in nature (Çepel, 2003: 125-145). According to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) definition, climate change refers to a modification in the climate that can be observed over comparable time intervals1 and is a consequence of human activities that directly or indirectly alter the composition of the global atmosphere, in addition to natural climate variations (IPCC, 2001: 13). Based on conducted studies, it has been observed that the global average temperature of the Earth has increased by 0,6ºC in the past century. It is projected that from the year 1990 to 2100, the global average temperature of the Earth will increase by an estimated range of 1.4 to 5.8ºC. However, one should not be misled by these seemingly small temperature increases. A 1ºC increase in surface temperature can result in significant changes on Earth. When we consider the ongoing impacts of climate change within the context of sustainable development, it becomes evident that it could lead to severe catastrophes in the future (Karakaya & Özçağ, 2003: 2). The primary cause of climate change is the substantial increase in emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of human activities, particularly due to industrialization. There are six major greenhouse gases responsible for global climate change. These include Carbon Dioxide (CO₂), Methane (CH₄), Nitrous Oxide (N₂O), Hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), Perfluorocarbons (PFCs), and Sulfur Hexafluoride (SF₆). Among these gases, CO₂ is the most significant, accounting for approximately 80% of the total greenhouse gas emissions. CO₂ emissions result from the combustion of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, which are used in various sectors of the economy. The CO₂ emissions solely attributable to fossil fuel consumption worldwide exceeded twice their 1973 levels by the end of 2019, rising from 15,461 million tons (Mt) to 33,622 Mt. Of this emission quantity, 44% originates from coal consumption, 33.7% from petroleum consumption, 21.6% from natural gas consumption, and 0.7% from industrial and non-renewable waste sources. When examined by regions, as of the end of 2019, 33.6% of CO₂ emissions are attributed to OECD countries, 29.5% to China, 13.6% to non-OECD Asia except China, 7.6% to non-OECD Europe and Eurasia, 5.2% to the Middle East, 3.8% to Africa, and 2.8% to non-OECD Americas countries (IEA, 2021: 54-55). The natural disasters arising as a consequence of global climate change, such as droughts, glacier melting, rising sea levels, flood disasters, hurricanes, and the imminent threat of extinction for certain species, pose substantial risks on a global scale, particularly in terms of the economic and social contexts, including agriculture, industry, and tourism sectors. The agriculture sector and food security are the domains that will be most severely affected by the issue of climate change globally. Food security is defined as taking measures by adhering to the necessary health regulations in the production, processing, storage, transportation, and distribution stages of food production to ensure the production of healthy food. Additionally, it refers to food that is safe, hygienic, beneficial to human health, and maintains its health status (Ceyhun Sezgin, 2020: 175). Nevertheless, there are various socio-economic and technological developments, urbanization, land use in agriculture, and global trade, among other factors, which affect food security on a global scale. Climate change and its associated impacts contribute to changes in nature, consequently increasing or altering the factors that affect food security. Factors affecting food security can emerge at any point along the food supply chain, and climate change can either trigger or directly cause such issues. Examples of factors influencing food security include fluctuations in temperature, extreme weather events, ocean and sea warming and acidification, as well as the development of resistance by bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi due to changes in temperature and rainfall patterns (Tirado, Clarke, Jaykus, McQuatters, & Frank, 2010). In the first chapter of this book, climate change, the factors contributing to this change and the effects of climate change on the world and our country have been examined. The second chapter discusses definitions related to food security, the global situation regarding food security and the factors influencing food security. The third chapter explores the impacts of climate change on food security. We hope that our study serves as a warning to the government, local authorities and food producers and also provides a valuable guide for students and colleagues in their academic endeavors. We would like to express our gratitude to the Hiperlink Publishing team and the Editor-in-Chief, Ms. Hatice BAHTİYAR, for their valuable support during the preparation and printing process of our book.
Download or read book A Framework for Rural Coastal Community Resilience written by Matthew David Jurjonas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate written by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessing the science related to climate change. It provides policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of human-induced climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate is the most comprehensive and up-to-date assessment of the observed and projected changes to the ocean and cryosphere and their associated impacts and risks, with a focus on resilience, risk management response options, and adaptation measures, considering both their potential and limitations. It brings together knowledge on physical and biogeochemical changes, the interplay with ecosystem changes, and the implications for human communities. It serves policymakers, decision makers, stakeholders, and all interested parties with unbiased, up-to-date, policy-relevant information. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Download or read book Understanding Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Climate Change Related Risks written by A. H. Dolan and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change and Sea Level Rise in South Florida written by Risa Palm and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Florida is frequently cited as the part of the United State of America as most susceptible to the devastation accompanying sea level rise. Several scholarly studies have shown the negative impact of coastal location in Florida on housing values. Are the residents of South Florida concerned? Is susceptibility to sea level rise actually affecting the housing market in terms of demand, the availability of home mortgages, or house prices? Are people living at particular risk from sea level rise aware of this risk and more open to new information about climate change? Do they support policies and laws to mitigate the pace and extent of climate change? Answers to these questions are not only of general interest, but they are also key to our understanding of the human dimensions of this problem. This book describes the results of a detailed survey in which respondents viewed a local map displaying flooding to their own community that would result from a Category 3 hurricane in 2033. It discusses political party identification and ideology that has an overwhelming impact in shaping views about sea level rise and climate change. This book has enormous implications for the effectiveness of communicating risk information. The text is important if we, as a nation, are to design communication strategies that will lead to broader policy to combat or mitigate this risk.
Download or read book Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise Effects of Residential Proximity to the Coast Climate Change Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Government for Valuing Ecosystem Outcomes written by Kristin B Raub and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a changing climate, there has been an increase in the frequency and severity of hazards impacting coastal communities. Traditionally, hard defenses (sea walls) have been constructed to protect these communities, even though they can have negative impacts throughout the nearby coastal environment. There has been increasing consideration of alternative shoreline protection strategies, such as living shorelines, or managed retreat. However, each of these coastal management strategies comes with a series of monetary, environmental, and social tradeoffs making individual preferences dependent on multiple scenario-specific attributes. Ecosystem service valuation is a useful tool for understanding how humans relate to the environment around them. Since human and coastal systems are highly interlinked, it is important that researchers and those involved in coastal management better understand how humans value the environment that they are changing when designing coastal adaptation strategies. As such, this study explores the role of perception when valuing coastal protection alternatives on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, namely, how one perceives climate change, attitude towards the government, and the proximity of one's residence to the coastline. Data from a stated preference survey was used to estimate a two-class latent class model. In general, members of both classes prefer plans that include a living shoreline. While none of the government attitude, proximity, or climate change variables were found to be significant in the latent class model, they did provide insight into the characteristics of respondents who always chose the same stated preference choice question plan.
Download or read book Coastal Communities and Climate Change written by Travis Read Franck and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (cont.) Boundedly rational investors and residents perceive storm risk to be higher immediately after a storm event, which can drive down investment, decrease economic 3 growth, and increase economic recovery time, proving that previous studies provide overly optimistic economic predictions. Rationality assumptions are shown to change economic growth and recovery time estimates. Including stochastic storms and variable rationality assumptions will improve adaptation research and, therefore, coastal adaptation and climate change policies.
Download or read book Climate Change written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water s Gonna Rise written by Michelle P. Covi and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea level rise is threatening coastal areas around the world with the loss of land, damage to personal and public property, ecological impacts, displacement of populations, and exacerbated risk associated with severe storm events. While the drivers of accelerated sea-level rise are global, it is at the local and regional levels that the most immediate impacts and responses occur. Planning for sea-level rise adaptation is occurring throughout the United States, but significant barriers exist, especially in places where political tensions concerning climate change science prevail. Observation of how people understand and perceive sea-level rise risk, comprehend information about their risk, and enter into processes to manage risk can provide us with better understanding of how risk can be socially amplified or attenuated, and strategies to overcome barriers to adaptation planning. To this end, this three-part dissertation investigates sea-level rise risk at multiple scales with the objective of characterizing the social dimensions of risk production and barriers to adaptation policy in northeastern North Carolina, a region with one of the largest areas of low-lying land threatened by sea-level rise in the United States, and with high social vulnerability to natural hazards among some resident populations. The first part investigates individual risk perception using an audience-driven, document evaluation methodology that assesses reader attention, comprehension, and attitudes. Comprehension difficulties confounded concern about sea-level rise hazard yielding fear, skepticism, and fatalism. The second part examines hegemonic discourses of mistrust and fear that provide insight into barriers to adaptation planning and risk reduction efforts. Fatalistic risk perceptions and risk communication scarcity increase risk in the coastal hazardscape, especially among those with the highest social vulnerability. The lack of risk information and predominant risk perceptions reinforce uneven patterns of risk developed through the marginalization of poor populations and facilitation of land use by those with social and political advantages. The third part is a case study exploration of a public participation process that a local municipality used to confront the barriers to adaptation planning. The study enables an understanding of how mainstreaming can overcome political hurdles, and how bridging organizations help move low-capacity communities past resource limitations. The multi-scalar, risk perception-oriented approach to the examination of sea-level rise risk and policy development may provide further guidance for the study of other complex, politically- charged risks within local contexts.
Download or read book The Coastal Zone written by F. John Vernberg and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONCERNS ABOUT THE HEALTH of the environment have become firmly embedded in the public's list of vital issues confronting present and future generations. The emergence of environmental issues as a significant part of the societal agenda can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s, although threats to the world ecosystem were identified much earlier. In The Coastal Zone, John and Winona Vernberg, the preeminent scholars on the southeastern coastal environment, encourage the general public to gain a more in-depth understanding of environmental science, especially as it pertains to the future of our treasured coastal communities. Using case studies of the southeastern coast, the Vernbergs provide an overview of the ecological characteristics of the coastal zone and urge readers to become aware of environmental consequences resulting from human disturbances such as chemical and biological contamination and habitat alterations. With the rise of urbanization and an ever-increasing population, coastal communities are being subjected to intense multiple stresses resulting from conflicting demands for use of finite resources. In order to save these limited resources for the benefit of present and
Download or read book Sustainable Communities on a Sustainable Planet written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law written by Randall Abate and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean and coastal law has grown rapidly in the past three decades as a specialty area within natural resources law and environmental law. The protection of oceans has received increased attention in the past decade because of sea-level rise, ocean acidification, the global overfishing crisis, widespread depletion of marine biodiversity such as marine mammals and coral reefs, and marine pollution. Paralleling the growth of ocean and coastal law, climate change regulation has emerged as a focus of international environmental diplomacy, and has gained increased attention in the wake of disturbing and abrupt climate change related impacts throughout the world that have profound implications for ocean and coastal regulation and marine resources. Climate Change Impacts on Ocean and Coastal Law effectively unites these two worlds. It raises important questions about whether and how ocean and coastal law will respond to the regulatory challenges that climate change presents to resources in the oceans and coasts of the U.S. and the world. This comprehensive work assembles the insights of global experts from academia and major NGOs (e.g., Center for International Environmental Law, Ocean Conservancy, and Environmental Law Institute) to address regulatory challenges from the perspectives of U.S. law, foreign domestic law, and international law.
Download or read book Coastal Cities in a Changing Climate written by Craig E. Colten and published by Frontiers Media SA. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Our Coastal Environment written by South Carolina Coastal Council and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Coast for All Seasons written by Miles O. Hayes and published by Pandion Books. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations, photographs and satellite imagery enhance a narrative that presents hard science and makes it accessible and very human. This is a book that investigates the changing face of the coastline through erosion, hurricanes and climate change. This is a book that matters.
