scholarly journals The breadth of climate change impacts on biological systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-113
Author(s):  
Dan Osborn
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Life On Earth ◽  
Emerging Topics

Abstract Human activity is driving climate change. This is affecting and will affect many aspects of life on earth. The breadth of its impacts is very wide and covers human, animal and plant health, and also the planet's biodiversity and the services that deliver benefits to people from natural capital. Finding solutions to the challenge of climate change will require multidisciplinary action in which the life sciences have a major role to play as this issue of Emerging Topics in Life Sciences indicates. More process and mechanistic knowledge could underpin solutions or even provide early warning of impacts. Any solutions will need to be developed and deployed in ways that gain and maintain public support.

Gut versichert mit Biodiversität (Essay) | Biodiversity – the insurance policy (essay)

2010 ◽  
Vol 161 (8) ◽  
pp. 299-305
Author(s):  
Sandra Limacher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Insurance Policy ◽  
Ecological Functions ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Life On Earth

Biodiversity is the variety of life on Earth that underpins ecosystem services. The creation of that diversity came slow and hard: 3 billion years of evolution. Many species may have ecological functions man has not yet discovered. Does this fact entitle the society to discard seemingly useless parts? With a view to the oncoming changes such as climate change, the article admonishes the readers that the question should no longer be “how much biodiversity the society can afford”, but rather “whether the society can afford, not to conserve and enhance biodiversity as natural capital”.

scholarly journals Ocean warming hotspots provide early warning laboratories for climate change impacts

2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 409-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gretta T. Pecl ◽  
Alistair J. Hobday ◽  
Stewart Frusher ◽  
Warwick H. H. Sauer ◽  
Amanda E. Bates
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Ocean Warming

scholarly journals Public Support for Conserving Bird Species Runs Counter to Climate Change Impacts on Their Distributions

PLoS ONE ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. e101281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Hedemark Lundhede ◽  
Jette Bredahl Jacobsen ◽  
Nick Hanley ◽  
Jon Fjeldså ◽  
Carsten Rahbek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Support ◽  
Bird Species ◽  
Climate Change Impacts

Adaptation, Transformation, and Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Allen Thompson ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
History Of ◽  
Superior Approach ◽  
Life On Earth

It is widely accepted that we must adapt to climate change. But we sit on the edge of radical, unprecedented, and rapid anthropogenic environmental changes that are driven by many factors in addition to greenhouse gas emissions. In this way, we occupy a unique and precarious position in the history of our species. Many basic conditions of life on Earth are changing at an alarming rate and thus we should begin to transform and broaden our thinking about adaptation. The conceptual history of climate adaptation intersects with conceptions of human development and sustainability, which provides a framework for adaptation in how we think about human flourishing and, subsequently, what it is to be human in the Anthropocene. If sustainability is about maintaining human welfare across generations but we acknowledge that climate change may undercut our ability to deliver as much and as good total or natural capital to subsequent generations, we have a residual duty to otherwise positively affect the welfare of future generations. A subjective, preference-based conception of human welfare is compared to an objective, capabilities-based approach and, while some adaptive preferences are unavoidable, embracing an objective theory of human flourishing provides a superior approach for meeting the residual duty we have to future generations by beginning the process of adapting our conception of human natural goodness, or what it is to be a good human being.

Vulnerability of Ras Sudr, Egypt to climate change, livelihood index, an approach to assess risks and develop future adaptation strategy

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Tawfic Ahmed ◽  
Ibrahim Nagi ◽  
Mahmoud Farag ◽  
Naglaa Loutfi ◽  
Mohamed A. Osman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Vulnerability Index ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Socioeconomic Drivers ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Physical Attributes

The livelihood vulnerability index (LVI) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) vulnerability index (IPCC-VI) approaches were used to assess the vulnerability of rural and urban regions of Sudr, Sinai, Egypt to climate change. Sudr is highly vulnerable to flashfloods and drought, that many attribute to climate changes. Equal numbers of rural and urban Bedouin, amounting to about 75–90 of each, were interviewed to collect information on human and natural capital, besides social, financial, and physical attributes. The study showed that drought is the most significant manifestation of climate change, especially in rural areas. The study also showed that rural Sudr community is significantly more vulnerable to climate change than the urban community. Their isolation, illiteracy, lack of awareness, and fragile ecosystem are causes of vulnerability. The two regions showed high capabilities to overcome exposure threats to climate change. Adequate adaptive capacity of Bedouin is the main cause for their ability to overcome climate change impacts. These results might be explained in view of Bedouin local knowledge that helps them survive even through the hardest of times. The aim of the present work is to explore the socioeconomic drivers of climate change and their impacts on a Bedouin community. It also gives an insight into possible mechanisms of future adaptation strategies.

Climate change impacts on crop yields in Ethiopia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Climate Change Impacts
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