Family doctors to connect global concerns due to climate change with local actions : State‐of‐the art and some proposals

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Lauriola ◽  
Alice Serafini ◽  
Mariagrazia Santamaria ◽  
Stefano Guicciardi ◽  
Peter K. Kurotschka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Family Doctors

Climate Change Surge: Implementing Stringent Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies in South Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-183
Author(s):  
Kola Odeku ◽  
Edson Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South African ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
African Government ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Vulnerability To Climate Change ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation Strategies

AbstractThis article examines how the South African government, realizing the country's vulnerability to climate change, deemed it necessary to strengthen adaptation and mitigation measures and put in place legal and institutional frameworks to ensure implementation and compliance. Government must take responsibility for industry's inaction by implementing policies on climate change and, more importantly, through a visible change in government policy to hold industry accountable. The stringent policies and strategies being put in place are reducing vulnerability and also enhancing a broad spectrum of capacity in responding to environmental, climatic, resource and economic perturbations. The article further reviews state of the art methods and tools available to strengthen mitigation and adaptation strategies and measures in the areas of the existing frameworks regarding climate change. It also considers various measures by Eskom in particular, and strategies embarked upon by South Africa's national and local governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

scholarly journals Strategies of Climate Change Denial: The case of Thierry Baudet

MaRBLe ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roelien Van der Wel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The State ◽  
Climate Change Denial ◽  
Specific Focus ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Anglo American

This paper discusses different strategies of climate change denial and focusses on the specific case of Dutch politician Thierry Baudet. Much of the literature concerning climate change denial focusses on Anglo-American cases, therefore more research non-English speaking countries is necessary. The theoretical framework describes the state of the art concerning climate change denialism and its links to occurring phenomena in Western societies and politics such as post-truth and populism. Afterwards, by conducting a deductive analysis of  Thierry Baudet’s climate denialism in the Netherlands, a more thorough understanding of the different strategies proposed by Stefan Rahmstorf  and Engels et al. is reached. Although all four categories are detected in Baudet’s denialism, consensus denial seems to be the most prevalent. The analysis of his usage of the notion of a climate apocalypse, combined with the analysis of his specific focus on consensus denial, broadens the understanding of how climate change denial can relate to populism. 

The Trinomial Food-Heritage-Education for Climate Emergency as a Tool for Territorial Innovation in the Euroregion of Eixo Atlântico

2022 ◽  
pp. 952-974
Author(s):  
Sara Costa Carvalho ◽  
Pablo Meira Ángel Cartea ◽  
Ulisses M. Azeiteiro
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Heritage Education ◽  
Northern Portugal ◽  
Food Consumed

This chapter is dedicated to the food-heritage-education for climate emergency trinomial (FoHECE). It disseminates a study in the Euroregion of Eixo Atlântico. This Euroregion (Galicia, Spain and Northern Portugal) has been a victim of climate change (CC) due to drought. The project consisted of a participatory-action-research (PAR) with a set of environmental education facilities (EEF) that promote the connection local heritage-global reality. The main objective of the study was to help re-signifying activities in education for climate emergency based on dietary styles. Thus, a pedagogical activity was created with each facility, according to the PAR methodology, to sub-themes of the diet-CC binomial (e.g,. types of food consumed, origin, type of production, presentation) and to food aspects of each EEF surrounding. In addition to the state-of-the-art review on FoHECE, results are discussed, and recommendations are suggested for future approaches and adaptations of this methodology to other contexts.

scholarly journals Interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and ecosystems at northern high latitudes

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 2015-2061 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Boy ◽  
Erik S. Thomson ◽  
Juan-C. Acosta Navarro ◽  
Olafur Arnalds ◽  
Ekaterina Batchvarova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Atmospheric Chemistry ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Scientific Discovery ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Anthropogenic Aerosols ◽  
Scientific Publications ◽  
Arctic Warming ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Centre Of Excellence

Abstract. The Nordic Centre of Excellence CRAICC (Cryosphere–Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Arctic Climate), funded by NordForsk in the years 2011–2016, is the largest joint Nordic research and innovation initiative to date, aiming to strengthen research and innovation regarding climate change issues in the Nordic region. CRAICC gathered more than 100 scientists from all Nordic countries in a virtual centre with the objectives of identifying and quantifying the major processes controlling Arctic warming and related feedback mechanisms, outlining strategies to mitigate Arctic warming, and developing Nordic Earth system modelling with a focus on short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), including natural and anthropogenic aerosols. The outcome of CRAICC is reflected in more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific publications, most of which are in the CRAICC special issue of the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. This paper presents an overview of the main scientific topics investigated in the centre and provides the reader with a state-of-the-art comprehensive summary of what has been achieved in CRAICC with links to the particular publications for further detail. Faced with a vast amount of scientific discovery, we do not claim to completely summarize the results from CRAICC within this paper, but rather concentrate here on the main results which are related to feedback loops in climate change–cryosphere interactions that affect Arctic amplification.

scholarly journals Pure Organic Active Compounds Against Abiotic Stress: A Biostimulant Overview

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana L. García-García ◽  
Francisco J. García-Machado ◽  
Andrés A. Borges ◽  
Sarai Morales-Sierra ◽  
Alicia Boto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Abiotic Stress ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
New Products ◽  
Plant Stress ◽  
Plant Defence ◽  
Yield Losses ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Agricultural Yields ◽  
Algal Extracts

Biostimulants (BSs) are probably one of the most promising alternatives nowadays to cope with yield losses caused by plant stress, which are intensified by climate change. Biostimulants comprise many different compounds with positive effects on plants, excluding pesticides and chemical fertilisers. Usually mixtures such as lixiviates from proteins or algal extracts have been used, but currently companies are interested in more specific compounds that are capable of increasing tolerance against abiotic stress. Individual application of a pure active compound offers researchers the opportunity to better standarise formulations, learn more about the plant defence process itself and assist the agrochemical industry in the development of new products. This review attempts to summarise the state of the art regarding various families of organic compounds and their mode/mechanism of action as BSs, and how they can help maximise agricultural yields under stress conditions aggravated by climate change.

scholarly journals LOCAL CLIMATE CHANGE AND URBAN HEAT ISLAND MITIGATION TECHNIQUES – THE STATE OF THE ART

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashem Akbari ◽  
Constantinos Cartalis ◽  
Denia Kolokotsa ◽  
Alberto Muscio ◽  
Anna Laura Pisello ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat Island ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Ambient Air ◽  
The State ◽  
Heat Island ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
Urban Heat ◽  
Mitigation Techniques

Increase of the ambient air temperature in cities caused by the urban heat island phenomenon has a seri- ous impact on the economic and social system of cities. to counterbalance the consequences of the increased urban temperatures important research has been carried out resulting in the development of efficient mitigation technologies. the present paper aims to present the state of the art in terms of local climate change and urban heat island mitigation techniques. In particular, developments in the field on highly reflective materials, cool and green roofs, cool pavements, urban green and of other mitigation technologies are presented in detail, while examples of implemented projects are given.

Energy critical infrastructures at risk from climate change: A state of the art review

2018 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 110-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cleo Varianou Mikellidou ◽  
Louisa Marie Shakou ◽  
Georgios Boustras ◽  
Christos Dimopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
At Risk ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Critical Infrastructures

Ensemble climate predictions using climate models and observational constraints

2007 ◽  
Vol 365 (1857) ◽  
pp. 2029-2052 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A Stott ◽  
Chris E Forest
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
General Circulation ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
General Circulation Models ◽  
Computationally Efficient ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Large Ensembles ◽  
Past Climate Change

Two different approaches are described for constraining climate predictions based on observations of past climate change. The first uses large ensembles of simulations from computationally efficient models and the second uses small ensembles from state-of-the-art coupled ocean–atmosphere general circulation models. Each approach is described and the advantages of each are discussed. When compared, the two approaches are shown to give consistent ranges for future temperature changes. The consistency of these results, when obtained using independent techniques, demonstrates that past observed climate changes provide robust constraints on probable future climate changes. Such probabilistic predictions are useful for communities seeking to adapt to future change as well as providing important information for devising strategies for mitigating climate change.

scholarly journals A Framework for Addressing Multiple Ecosystem Services in Forest Management Planning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Zeki BASKENT ◽  
Jose Guilherme BORGES ◽  
Jan KASPAR
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Ecosystem Management ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Forest Ecosystem Management

Abstract Background: Forest policy and decision makers are challenged by the need to balance the increasing demand for multiple ecosystem services while addressing the impacts of natural disturbances (e.g. wildfires, droughts, wind, insect attacks) and global change scenarios (e.g. climate change) on its potential supply. This challenge provides the motivation for the development of a framework for incorporating concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services in multiple criteria management planning contexts. Thus, the paper focused on both the analysis of the current state-of-the art in forest management planning and the development of a conceptual framework to accommodate various components in a forest ecosystem management planning process.Results: Based on a thorough recent classification of forest management planning problems and the state-of-the-art research, the key dimensions of that framework and the process were defined. The emphasis is on helping identify how concerns with a wide range of ecosystem services may be analyzed and better understood by forest ecosystem management planning. This research discusses the potential of contemporary management planning approaches to address multiple forest ecosystem services. It highlights the need of a landscape-level perspective and of spatial resolution to integrate multiple ecosystem services. It discusses the importance of methods and tools that may help support the involvement of stakeholders and public participation in hierarchical planning processes. Conclusions: The research addressed the need of methods and tools that may encapsulate the ecological, economic and social complexity of forest ecosystem management to provide an efficient plan, information about tradeoffs between ecosystem services as well as the sensitivity of the plan to uncertain parameters (e.g. prices, climate change) in a timely manner.

scholarly journals Challenges and Perspectives in the Epigenetics of Climate Change-Induced Forests Decline

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabel García-García ◽  
Belén Méndez-Cea ◽  
David Martín-Gálvez ◽  
José Ignacio Seco ◽  
Francisco Javier Gallego ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Tree Species ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Forest Tree ◽  
Epigenetic Modifications ◽  
Sequencing Technologies ◽  
Induced Stress ◽  
Generation Times ◽  
Reference Genomes ◽  
Sessile Organisms

Forest tree species are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. As sessile organisms with long generation times, their adaptation to a local changing environment may rely on epigenetic modifications when allele frequencies are not able to shift fast enough. However, the current lack of knowledge on this field is remarkable, due to many challenges that researchers face when studying this issue. Huge genome sizes, absence of reference genomes and annotation, and having to analyze huge amounts of data are among these difficulties, which limit the current ability to understand how climate change drives tree species epigenetic modifications. In spite of this challenging framework, some insights on the relationships among climate change-induced stress and epigenomics are coming. Advances in DNA sequencing technologies and an increasing number of studies dealing with this topic must boost our knowledge on tree adaptive capacity to changing environmental conditions. Here, we discuss challenges and perspectives in the epigenetics of climate change-induced forests decline, aiming to provide a general overview of the state of the art.

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