Soil functions – Today’s situation and further development under climate change

Erdkunde ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kirsten Madena ◽  
Helge Bormann ◽  
Luise Giani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Further Development

scholarly journals Implications of Climate Change on Soil Functions: A Case for Achieving Local Coconut Sufficiency from Sustainable Agricultural Practices

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chinedu Egbunike ◽  
Nonso Okoye ◽  
Okoroji-Nma Okechukwu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Soil Biodiversity ◽  
Environmental Consequences ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Sustainable Agricultural Practices

Climate change is a major threat to agricultural food production globally and locally. It poses both direct and indirect effects on soil functions. Thus, agricultural management practices has evolved to adaptation strategies in order to mitigate the risks and threats from climate change. The study concludes with a recommendation the coconut farmers should explore the idea of soil biodiversity in a bid to mitigate the potential negative impact of climate related risk on the farming. The study proffers the need for adopting sustainable agricultural practices to boost local coconut production. This can contribute to the simultaneous realisation of two of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations: SDG 2 on food security and sustainable agriculture and SDG 13 on action to combat climate change and its impacts. The study findings has implications for tackling climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa and in particular Nigeria in order to boost local agricultural production and coconut in particular without negative environmental consequences and an ability to cope with climate change related risks.

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change adaptation options on soil functions: A review of European case-studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2378-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Hamidov ◽  
Katharina Helming ◽  
Gianni Bellocchi ◽  
Waldemar Bojar ◽  
Tommy Dalgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals Climate change adaptation frameworks: an evaluation of plans for coastal, Suffolk, UK

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 4059-4094
Author(s):  
J. Armstrong ◽  
R. Wilby ◽  
R. J. Nicholls
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Stakeholder Engagement ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Climate Model ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Framework Analysis ◽  
Further Development

Abstract. This paper asserts that three principal frameworks for climate change adaptation can be recognised in the literature: Scenario-Led (SL), Vulnerability-Led (VL) and Decision–Centric (DC) frameworks. A criterion is developed to differentiate these frameworks in recent adaptation projects. The criterion features six key hallmarks as follows: (1) use of climate model information; (2) analysis metrics/units; (3) socio-economic knowledge; (4) stakeholder engagement; (5) adaptation implementation mechanisms; (6) tier of adaptation implementation. The paper then tests the validity of this approach using adaptation projects on the Suffolk coast, UK. Fourteen adaptation plans were identified in an online survey. They were analysed in relation to the hallmarks outlined above and assigned to an adaptation framework. The results show that while some adaptation plans are primarily SL, VL or DC, the majority are hybrid showing a mixture of DC/VL and DC/SL characteristics. Interestingly, the SL/VL combination is not observed, perhaps because the DC framework is intermediate and attempts to overcome weaknesses of both SL and VL approaches. The majority (57 %) of adaptation projects generated a risk assessment or advice notes. Further development of this type of framework analysis would allow better guidance on approaches for organisations when implementing climate change adaptation initiatives, and other similar proactive long-term planning.

scholarly journals Individual-based eco-evolutionary models for understanding adaptation in changing seas

2021 ◽  
Vol 288 (1962) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Xuereb ◽  
Quentin Rougemont ◽  
Peter Tiffin ◽  
Huijie Xue ◽  
Megan Phifer-Rixey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Multiple Stressors ◽  
Conservation Strategies ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Marine Systems ◽  
Individual Based Models ◽  
Demographic Processes ◽  
Genetic Responses ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Effective Conservation

As climate change threatens species' persistence, predicting the potential for species to adapt to rapidly changing environments is imperative for the development of effective conservation strategies. Eco-evolutionary individual-based models (IBMs) can be useful tools for achieving this objective. We performed a literature review to identify studies that apply these tools in marine systems. Our survey suggested that this is an emerging area of research fuelled in part by developments in modelling frameworks that allow simulation of increasingly complex ecological, genetic and demographic processes. The studies we identified illustrate the promise of this approach and advance our understanding of the capacity for adaptation to outpace climate change. These studies also identify limitations of current models and opportunities for further development. We discuss three main topics that emerged across studies: (i) effects of genetic architecture and non-genetic responses on adaptive potential; (ii) capacity for gene flow to facilitate rapid adaptation; and (iii) impacts of multiple stressors on persistence. Finally, we demonstrate the approach using simple simulations and provide a framework for users to explore eco-evolutionary IBMs as tools for understanding adaptation in changing seas.

Information and Communication Technologies for the Good Society

2011 ◽  
pp. 1709-1718
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Decisive Role ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Good Society ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Global Challenges ◽  
Raising Awareness ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Further Development

The appearance of notions of a “good society” does not come as a surprise, given the recent crises in the fields of economy, the financial markets, or the climate change. These notions play a decisive role in the context of implementing ICTs. This chapter contends that ICTs – like any technology – make sense in the context of normative visions only that make technology a means to an end. The vision of a good society must nowadays refer to the global challenges confronting the further development of societies. In doing so it identifies ICTs as facilitators of the advent of a Global Sustainable Information Society which makes ICTs meaningful or it classifies them as meaningless gadgets or even as detrimental for designing the future. It is Gunilla Bradley who can take credit for devoting her lifework to raising awareness of the impacts of ICTs on humans and the ethical implications of research in that field.

Climate Law and Its Skeptics: Whither Protection of the Atmosphere?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Sand
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
International Law ◽  
Future Prospect ◽  
Environmental Law ◽  
Common Interest ◽  
International Environmental Law ◽  
International Law Commission ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Law Commission

‘Climate change law’ is considered by a number of legal scholars as an emergent novel discipline. The question, then, is whether the advent (and future prospect) of climate change has resulted in a coherent autonomous new body of law, be it a nascent one; or is it nothing more or less than the application of existing national and international environmental law to climatic problems? It is perhaps worth recalling that international environmental law itself only ascended to the rank of a recognized discipline of its own in the 1990s, over considerable academic scepticism at the time. Not un-similarly, the ongoing new project of the UN International Law Commission (ILC) for the drafting of guidelines on “protection of the atmosphere” has met with resistance from a few powerful States claiming that there is no need for further codification of international law in this field. Yet, considering our common interest in conserving the quality of the Earth’s atmosphere and climate, the ILC project may indeed encourage further development of a concept of inter-generational “planetary trusteeship”, owed by States as public trustees to present and future citizens as the beneficiaries.

scholarly journals A Marine-Biology-Centric Definition of Ocean Connectivity and the Law of the Sea

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (0) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Elise Johansen ◽  
Irene Vanja Dahl ◽  
Alexander Lott ◽  
Philipp Peter Nickels ◽  
Ingrid Solstad Andreassen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ocean Acidification ◽  
Marine Biology ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Marine Ecosystems ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
The Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Further Development

The inter-connectedness of marine ecosystems has been repeatedly acknowledged in the relevant literature as well as in policy briefs. Against this backdrop, this article aims at further reflecting on the question of to what extent the law of the sea takes account of or disregards ocean connectivity. In order to address this question, this article starts by providing a brief overview of the notion of ocean connectivity from a marine science perspective, before taking a closer look at the extent to which the law of the sea incorporates the scientific imperative of ocean connectivity in the context of four examples: (i) straits, (ii) climate change and ocean acidification, (iii) salmon and (iv) the ecosystem approach to fisheries. Tying the findings of the different examples together, this study concludes by stressing the need of accommodating ocean connectivity not only in the interpretation and implementation of the existing law (of the sea) but also in its further development.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document