Modelling and assessment of climate change and policy response – the distribu tion and area of Kobresia meadow in the Three-River Headwaters Region, China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huilong Lin ◽  
Yanfei Pu ◽  
Lin Li ◽  
Charles Nyandwi ◽  
Jean de Dieu Nzabonakuze ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Kobresia Meadow

How Should We Talk About Climate Change and Migration?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Morrissey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Limited Capacity ◽  
Flexible Approach ◽  
Single Term ◽  
And Migration

Abstract This paper is a response Ferris (2020), specifically to the call for coalescence around a single term by which to talk about people migrating in response to climate change. While sympathetic to the imperative behind Ferris’ (2020) call, my overall argument is to reject this proposal. Instead I argue for less of focus on what we call people migrating in response to climate change, and more of a focus on how we talk about them. To justify this, I argue that a single term is inherently reductive and likely to play upon anti-immigrant sentiment due to the need to portray ‘migration as a problem’. At best this will result in a policy focus with limited capacity to address the challenge of migration in a context of climate change. At worst it will drive a policy response that is overtly counter-productive. As an alternative, I propose embracing a multitude of discourses, informed by principals that I argue will drive a humane climate agenda, and allow for a flexible approach that can account for the variety of concerns at the nexus of climate change and human migration.

India’s water policy response to climate change

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-530 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew I. England
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Policy Response

Does Climate Change Policy Depend Importantly on Population Ethics?

2021 ◽  
pp. 111-136
Author(s):  
Gustaf Arrhenius ◽  
Mark Budolfson ◽  
Dean Spears
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Evaluation ◽  
Climate Change Policy ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Population Ethics ◽  
Impossibility Results ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
Change Policy ◽  
Population Axiology

Choosing a policy response to climate change seems to demand a population axiology. A formal literature involving impossibility theorems has demonstrated that all possible approaches to population axiology have one or more seemingly counterintuitive implications. This leads to the worry that because axiological theory is radically unresolved, this theoretical ignorance implies serious practical ignorance about what climate policies to pursue. This chapter offers two deflationary responses to this worry. First, it may be that given the actual facts of climate change, all axiologies agree on a particular policy response. In this case, there would be a clear dominance conclusion, and the puzzles of axiology would be practically irrelevant (albeit still theoretically challenging). Second, despite the impossibility results, the authors prove the possibility of axiologies that satisfy bounded versions of all of the desiderata from the population axiology literature, which may be all that is needed for policy evaluation.

Thirteen-year variation in biomass allocation under climate change in an alpine Kobresia meadow, northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

2019 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Licong Dai ◽  
Xiaowei Guo ◽  
Yangong Du ◽  
Xun Ke ◽  
Yingfang Cao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tibetan Plateau ◽  
Biomass Allocation ◽  
Kobresia Meadow

scholarly journals Environmental migrants and Canada's refugee policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila Murray
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Historical Review ◽  
International Agreements ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Refugee Resettlement ◽  
Refugee Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Liberal Approach

Canada is among the world's foremost refugee resettlement countries and is signatory to international agreements that affirm its commitment to the protection of refugee rights. Asylum seekers come to Canada from around the globe. But as climate change continues to affect growing regions of the world -- threatening to create as many as 200 million environmental migrants by the year 2050 -- Canada has not yet begun to address the issue of climate change migration. In an era defined by a neo-liberal approach to migration issues, and until international actors determine the status of environmental migrants, Canada's policy response to the looming crisis may be conjectured from an historical review of its refugee policy. This provides an understanding of the various factors, both domestic and international, that may have the greatest influence on Canada's future refugee policy.

Influence of Labeling and Incivility on Climate Change Communication

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Candice Howarth ◽  
Amelia Sharman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Opinion Formation ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
The Public ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Differences Of Opinion ◽  
Science Policy Interface

Labels play an important role in opinion formation, helping to actively construct perceptions and reality, and to place individuals into context with others. As a highly complex issue, climate change invites a range of different opinions and dialogues about its causes, impacts, and action required. Much work has been published in the academic literature aiming to categorize differences of opinion about climate change using labels. However, the debate about labels acts as a distraction to more fundamental and pressing issues of policy response. In addition, the undercurrent of incivility present in the climate change debate also contributes towards a hostile and unconstructive conflict. This is an evolving area of academic enquiry. Recent work has examined how the different labels of climate change opinions are constructed, used in practice, and portrayed differently in the public and policy spheres. The growing number of categorization systems used in the climate debate are also argued to have implications for the science-policy interface, creating a polarized debate involving many different actors and interfaces. Moving away from unhelpful use and construction of labels that lead to incivility would enable constructive and fruitful dialogue across this polarized debate. A way forward would be to explore further the role of underlying motivations and rationales as to why these different opinions about climate change come to exist in the first place. Focusing on potential overlaps in perceptions and rationales may encourage constructive discussion amongst actors previously engaged in purposefully antagonistic exchange on climate change.

The Science, Economics, and Politics of Global Climate Change: A Review of The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam B. Jaffe ◽  
Suzi Kerr
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Neoclassical Economics ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Global Action ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Benefit Cost ◽  
Economics And Politics

The problem of global climate change presents overwhelming factual, analytical, and normative challenges. Nordhaus surveys this terrain bravely and mostly successfully. He explains the scientific/economic consensus that the planet is warming, that people are responsible, that the consequences are bad, and that immediate action is benefit/ cost justified. He also discusses the efficient policy response, and the challenges of achieving coordinated global action. His approach is mostly that of standard neoclassical economics, and some of the limitations of that paradigm in this context are not addressed. But overall, The Climate Casino provides an excellent self-contained introduction to the subject. (JEL D61, H23, Q51, Q54, Q58, D72)

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