Regional integrated modelling of climate change impacts on natural resources and resource usage in semi-arid Northeast Brazil

2007 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maarten S. Krol ◽  
Axel Bronstert
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Northeast Brazil ◽  
Resource Usage ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals Assessing biophysical and socio-economic impacts of climate change on regional avian biodiversity

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Kapitza ◽  
Pham Van Ha ◽  
Tom Kompas ◽  
Nick Golding ◽  
Natasha C. R. Cadenhead ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Integrated Modelling ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
Modelling Framework ◽  
Avian Biodiversity ◽  
Biodiversity Change ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractClimate change threatens biodiversity directly by influencing biophysical variables that drive species’ geographic distributions and indirectly through socio-economic changes that influence land use patterns, driven by global consumption, production and climate. To date, no detailed analyses have been produced that assess the relative importance of, or interaction between, these direct and indirect climate change impacts on biodiversity at large scales. Here, we apply a new integrated modelling framework to quantify the relative influence of biophysical and socio-economically mediated impacts on avian species in Vietnam and Australia and we find that socio-economically mediated impacts on suitable ranges are largely outweighed by biophysical impacts. However, by translating economic futures and shocks into spatially explicit predictions of biodiversity change, we now have the power to analyse in a consistent way outcomes for nature and people of any change to policy, regulation, trading conditions or consumption trend at any scale from sub-national to global.

scholarly journals As Experiências da Coalizão Adapta Sertão na Disseminação de Tecnologias e Estratégias de Adaptação à Mudança Climática para o Agricultor Familiar do Semiárido Brasileiro (The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change...)

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 1336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Cesano ◽  
Emilio Lèbre La Rovere ◽  
Martin Obermaier ◽  
Thais Corral ◽  
Laise Santos da Silva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Access To Water ◽  
Semi Arid

Este artigo descreve a experiência da coalizão Adapta Sertão na experimentação e disseminação de sistemas produtivos que possam tornar o agricultor familiar do Semiárido mais resiliente aos impactos da variação climática atual e da mudança do clima no futuro. Durante as experimentações, a coalizão teve que enfrentar várias barreiras ligadas à falta de integração entre políticas públicas existentes e projetos pilotos em comunidades locais. Hoje, a adaptação à mudança do clima não está sendo considerada na implementação de obras hídricas de pequeno e médio porte, que são de grande importância porque, geralmente, conseguem beneficiar as faixas de população mais pobres e mais suscetíveis aos impactos climáticos. As experiências mostram que é preciso desenvolver, com urgência, políticas públicas inovadoras que consigam integrar o acesso à água com a disseminação de tecnologias de adaptação e de sistemas produtivos mais resilientes à seca.  Palavras - chave: medidas de adaptação, agricultura familiar, semiárido, tecnologia.  The experience of the Adapta Sertão Coalition in Disseminating Climate Change Adaptation Technologies and Strategies for Family Farmers in Semi Arid Brazil  ABSTRACTThis paper describes the experience of the Adapta Sertão coalition in testing and experimenting production systems that have the potential to make small farmers of semi-arid Brazil more resilient to current and future climate change impacts. During the different testing, the coalition had to overcome several barriers linked to a lack of integration between current public policies. For example, today climate change is not considered in the design and implementation of small and medium hydraulic infrastructures. This limits the benefits to the target groups (small farmers) that are more likely to be affected by climate change. The experiences show that it is urgent and necessary to develop public policies to better integrate access to water, dissemination of climate resilient technologies and implementation of production systems more adequate to the semi arid conditions.  Keywords: adaptation measures, family farming, semi-arid, technology.

Assessing climate change impacts on pearl millet under arid and semi-arid environments using CSM-CERES-Millet model

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 6745-6757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asmat Ullah ◽  
Ishfaq Ahmad ◽  
Ashfaq Ahmad ◽  
Tasneem Khaliq ◽  
Umer Saeed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Pearl Millet ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Arid Environments ◽  
Semi Arid

Seasonalizing Mountain System Recharge in Semi-Arid Basins-Climate Change Impacts

Ground Water ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-597 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoori Ajami ◽  
Thomas Meixner ◽  
Francina Dominguez ◽  
James Hogan ◽  
Thomas Maddock
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Mountain System ◽  
Semi Arid

scholarly journals Climate Change and Global Warming in Namibia: Environmental Disasters vs. Human Life and the Economy

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Chalene Keja-Kaereho ◽  
Brenden R. Tjizu ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Native People ◽  
Unskilled Labor ◽  
Environmental Disasters ◽  
Unique Approach

Climate change is one of the concepts in Namibian languages that does not have any meaning or cannot be easily translated into the native dialects. It is very alien to many Namibians but yet growing in popularity, as it has become a problem that is affecting the economy, natural resources, and tradition and culture of the native people. Climate change is probably going to worsen the dry circumstances that are currently experienced in Southern Africa or Namibia to be specific. If it happens that rainfall does come in good amounts regularly, it will probably erupt in greater power. This will eventually lead to floods and erosion damages in some parts of the country, though these expectations have had very little influence on Namibian policy. Reid et al. (2008) stated that over the past 20 years there has been annual decrease in the Namibian economy of up to 5%, which has been a result of the climate change mostly impacting natural resources in the country. The result was reported using the computable general equilibrium (CGE) model simulations for Namibia. However, this result has negatively impacted the poorest people the most, which is a consequence of decline in wages and employment opportunities, especially for uneducated or unskilled labor in rural areas. It is of utmost importance for Namibia to take initiatives to ensure that most of its policies and activities are environmentally proofed. Namibia should have a unique approach to deal with displaced farmers and farm workers and citizens of such nature by looking into its issues of colonialism. In addition, there is a clear need to mainstream climate change into policies of developing countries like Namibia, because it is the responsibility of these countries to muddle through with climate change impacts and plan for a climate-constrained future.

Climate change impacts on Namibia’s natural resources and economy

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 452-466 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Reid ◽  
Linda Sahlén ◽  
Jesper Stage ◽  
James MacGregor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Climate Change Impacts

Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity in Arid and Semi-Arid Areas

2022 ◽  
pp. 578-602
Author(s):  
Hanane Boutaj ◽  
Aicha Moumni ◽  
Oumayma Nassiri ◽  
Abdelhak Ouled Aitouna
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Vegetation Type ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Arid Zones ◽  
Local Extinctions ◽  
Ecological Tourism ◽  
Biodiversity Decline ◽  
Semi Arid

Considerable attention has been paid to climate change and its impacts on biodiversity. The climate change has caused several problems such as continuous ecosystem degradation and a resultant biodiversity decline. In addition, climate warming has a range of indirect effects through changes in vegetation type level and sea that affect physical and biological systems. This has also led to changes in the distribution of species, as well as reductions in the size of populations, or even local extinctions of these populations. Moreover, many species are disappearing with time due to climate change combined with the emergence of disease that develops and increases with time. These problems affect different biodiversity components that are close to collapse. This chapter explored the richness of biodiversity in arid and semi-arid zones. It is also illuminates the effects of climate change on distribution of biodiversity. The authors highlight the responses of biodiversity under climate change, in terms of species extinction, biodiversity loss, and the impacts of climate change to ecological tourism. Finally, the authors show how biodiversity can overcome the effect of climate change, by developing some systems that allow to them to survive and conservation of species and ecosystems.

scholarly journals Climate Change Impacts and Relevance of Smallholder Farmers’ Response in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands in Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. e00814
Author(s):  
Dorcas N. Kalele ◽  
William O. Ogara ◽  
Christopher Oludhe ◽  
Joshua O. Onono
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Smallholder Farmers ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Arid Lands ◽  
Semi Arid
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