From Global Warming to Water Scarcity: What Are the Most Urgent Environmental Problems of the Region

2006 ◽  
pp. 103-107
Author(s):  
A. Morel ◽  
B. Morel
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Environmental Problems

scholarly journals Public Interest Immersed in the Field of Information Environment: How has Japanese Interest in Energy and Environmental Problems Varied?

2018 ◽  
Vol 02 (02) ◽  
pp. 1850005
Author(s):  
Teruaki Ohnishi ◽  
Keiji Shimano
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Information Environment ◽  
Public Knowledge ◽  
Collective Interest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Virtual Field

We studied the relevance of the secular variation of Japanese interest in energy and environmental problems to the information primarily released by the news media. From the investigation of the extent of public interest in three matters, the global warming, the energy saving and nature, all indicated by opinion surveys, the number of newspaper articles and the frequency of Internet retrieval search, we proposed a model such that the public interest along with the acquired public knowledge were given as a function of public memory of the information primarily provided by the news media. The society was assumed here to be immersed in a virtual field of information environment, which induced the collective interest of the public and was proportional in strength to the extent of the public memory with oblivion. Introducing two types of oblivion function, we found the model to well reproduce the real time-variation of the Japanese interest, except for the case of nature, almost irrespective to the form of the function. Some comments were made on the attenuation of the public interest that occurred when the field became weakened.

Developing Climate Smart Aerobic Rice Varieties for Addressing the Problems of Water Scarcity and Global Warming

2017 ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Nitika Sandhu ◽  
Virender Singh ◽  
Manvesh Kumar Sihag ◽  
Sunita Jain ◽  
Rajinder Kumar Jain
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Aerobic Rice ◽  
Rice Varieties

scholarly journals Mitigation efforts will not fully alleviate the increase in water scarcity occurrence probability in wheat-producing areas

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
pp. eaau2406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslav Trnka ◽  
Song Feng ◽  
Mikhail A. Semenov ◽  
Jørgen E. Olesen ◽  
Kurt Christian Kersebaum ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Representative Concentration Pathway ◽  
Occurrence Probability ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Change Mitigation

Global warming is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of severe water scarcity (SWS) events, which negatively affect rain-fed crops such as wheat, a key source of calories and protein for humans. Here, we develop a method to simultaneously quantify SWS over the world’s entire wheat-growing area and calculate the probabilities of multiple/sequential SWS events for baseline and future climates. Our projections show that, without climate change mitigation (representative concentration pathway 8.5), up to 60% of the current wheat-growing area will face simultaneous SWS events by the end of this century, compared to 15% today. Climate change stabilization in line with the Paris Agreement would substantially reduce the negative effects, but they would still double between 2041 and 2070 compared to current conditions. Future assessments of production shocks in food security should explicitly include the risk of severe, prolonged, and near-simultaneous droughts across key world wheat-producing areas.

Chile water reform may await next government

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Use ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Water Rights ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Northern Chile ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Pressure On Water Resources ◽  
Water Reform

Subject Reform of water-use rights. Significance Controversy over a bill to reform water-use rights, approved by the Chamber of Deputies on November 22 and now before the Senate, is partly ideological. However, it also reflects growing pressure on water resources and the prospect that, due to global warming as well as Chile’s economic development, this pressure will continue to mount. Impacts Given water scarcity in northern Chile, the mining industry will increasingly turn to seawater desalination. The introduction of fines for non-use of water rights in 2005 has not led to divestment of rights on the expected scale. Both sides in the debate allege that the proposed reform is ideological rather than technical in nature.

Multifunctional sustainable materials: the role of carbon existing protein in the enhanced gas and UV sensing performances of ZnO-based biofilms

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (21) ◽  
pp. 5239-5247 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deepa Kathiravan ◽  
Bohr-Ran Huang ◽  
Adhimoorthy Saravanan
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Ozone Depletion ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Sustainable Materials ◽  
Clean Energy Source ◽  
Uv Rays

Due to environmental problems such as global warming and ozone depletion, it is essential to detect harmful UV rays from sunlight and to commercialize a clean energy source (H2), and both issues require a reliable sensor.

scholarly journals Women and The Environment in The Arab World

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Randa Abul-Husn
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Rare Species ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Health Hazards ◽  
Global Awareness

A decade ago, nobody really worried about the environment, except for a few concerned environmentalists. Their repeated warnings against global warming, the various forms of pollution, the slow extinctions of rare species, health hazards and other environmental problems went without much notice. Global awareness rose only when the danger became real and the consequences were tangibly felt.

scholarly journals Escuelas limpias: proyecto de gestión ambiental

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
pp. 131-150
Author(s):  
Pedro Cárdenas ◽  
◽  
Tonny Dextre ◽  
Vicky García ◽  
Liliana Santivañez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Critical Levels ◽  
The Social ◽  
Multiplier Effect ◽  
And Training

Environmental problems, pollution and global warming can be addressed from different perspectives. This project seeks to be an effective proposal to address these issues. It directs its efforts to the development of a process of awareness of young Peruvians between the ages of 11 and 15, to be incorporated into public schools through a program of environmental education. It starts from identifying a district model with critical levels of pollution in which to promote and implement an appropriate environmental education to contribute to the improvement and welfare of the environment The Independencia district was selected for it shows acute health problems, pollution and poor environmental awareness and culture, with the whole purpose of changing the attitude of a group of young people, parents and teachers to the social and environmental problems of their environment, instilling in them awareness and training in environmental education to create a multiplier effect and to improve their quality of life.

scholarly journals Domestic and International Drivers of the Demand for Water Resources in the Context of Water Scarcity: A Cross-Country Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Rakesh Gupta ◽  
Kejia Yan ◽  
Tarlok Singh ◽  
Di Mo
Keyword(s):  
Water Management ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Energy Transport ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
National Level ◽  
Population Expansion ◽  
Clean Energy ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Domestic Water

Global warming, while increasing human demand for water, is reducing water availability by reducing runoff flows and the effective amount of water between seasons, making water scarcity a growing problem globally. Water management plays an important role in mitigating global warming, improving the water cycle, reducing carbon emissions, and providing clean energy, and pricing water is considered a good approach to water management. Pricing water needs to take into account all sectors and aspects of society, such as domestic water, food and agriculture, energy, transport, industry, urban provision, human health, ecosystems, and the environment, and their interrelationships through water, within the context of the fundamental human rights to water and sanitation. This requires that every stakeholder should contribute to the development of water-related policies at every stage of the water interrelationship. This study investigated the relationship between water demand across different sectors of the economy using indicators for China, Australia, Japan, and the UK. Using panel analyses, this study finds that economic growth and population expansion increases the demand for water in all aspects. These findings have significant policy implications for water management. Because water prices can have an impact on global trade and, more importantly, are a major solution to global warming, water management policies should be considered at the global level, not only at the national level.

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