Climate Change Legislation: Current Developments and Emerging Trends

2012 ◽  
pp. 43-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emerging Trends

scholarly journals Emerging trends in science and news of climate change threats to and adaptation of aquaculture

Aquaculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 737812
Author(s):  
Halley E. Froehlich ◽  
J. Zachary Koehn ◽  
Kirstin K. Holsman ◽  
Benjamin S. Halpern
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emerging Trends

scholarly journals Climate Change and Water and Sanitation: Likely Impacts and Emerging Trends for Action

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Howard ◽  
Roger Calow ◽  
Alan Macdonald ◽  
Jamie Bartram
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water And Sanitation ◽  
Emerging Trends

Health risks associated with drinking water in a context of climate change in France: a review of surveillance requirements

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 230-246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Beaudeau ◽  
Mathilde Pascal ◽  
Damien Mouly ◽  
Catherine Galey ◽  
Olivier Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Management ◽  
Drinking Water ◽  
Health Risks ◽  
Quality Changes ◽  
Raw Water ◽  
Treatment Processes ◽  
Health Burden ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
By Products

It is widely recognized that climate change will impact upon human health in a variety of ways. Assessing these impacts and identifying adaptation opportunities requires appropriate monitoring. To identify the need for reinforced surveillance in metropolitan France, we defined a conceptual framework of how climate change could impact upon health risks in relation to drinking water. Three types of climate change-related impacts were identified: changes in raw water quality, changes in water treatment processes and changes in human determinants of exposure in relation to consumers' behaviour. This framework was applied to existing risks and exposure situations in France. An increase in the health burden attributable to drinking water intake is expected due to increased exposure to faecal pathogens, disinfection by-products and cyanobacteria as a result of a combination of natural, technical and human factors. Current sources of health and water data should satisfy surveillance requirements. However, we believe that the creation of a sustainable database comprising behavioural and water management data would be valuable in following and understanding emerging trends.

scholarly journals Applying Text Mining for Identifying Future Signals of Land Administration

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krigsholm ◽  
Riekkinen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Satellite Imagery ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Governmental Agencies ◽  
Land Administration ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Automated Process ◽  
Change Mitigation

Companies and governmental agencies are increasingly seeking ways to explore emerging trends and issues that have the potential to shape up their future operational environments. This paper exploits text mining techniques for investigating future signals of the land administration sector. After a careful review of previous literature on the detection of future signals through text mining, we propose the use of topic models to enhance the interpretation of future signals. Findings of the study highlight the large spectrum of issues related to land interests and their recording, as nineteen future signal topics ranging from climate change mitigation and the use of satellite imagery for data collection to flexible standardization and participatory land consolidations are identified. Our analysis also shows that distinguishing weak signals from latent, well-known, and strong signals is challenging when using a predominantly automated process. Overall, this study summarizes the current discourses of the land administration domain and gives an indication of which topics are gaining momentum at present.

Schottky diodes based on 2D materials for environmental gas monitoring: a review on emerging trends, recent developments and future perspectives

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minu Mathew ◽  
Chandra Sekhar Rout
Keyword(s):  
Gas Sensing ◽  
2D Materials ◽  
Schottky Diodes ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Working Temperature ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Gas Sensing Properties ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Sensitivity And Selectivity

This review details the fundamentals, working principles and recent developments of Schottky junctions based on 2D materials to emphasize their improved gas sensing properties including low working temperature, high sensitivity, and selectivity.

Averting robo-bees: why free-flying robotic bees are a bad idea

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 723-729
Author(s):  
Roslyn Gleadow ◽  
Jim Hanan ◽  
Alan Dorin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Food Security ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Plant Interactions ◽  
Plant Insect Interactions ◽  
Native Habitat ◽  
Insect Pollinators ◽  
Insect Interactions

Food security and the sustainability of native ecosystems depends on plant-insect interactions in countless ways. Recently reported rapid and immense declines in insect numbers due to climate change, the use of pesticides and herbicides, the introduction of agricultural monocultures, and the destruction of insect native habitat, are all potential contributors to this grave situation. Some researchers are working towards a future where natural insect pollinators might be replaced with free-flying robotic bees, an ecologically problematic proposal. We argue instead that creating environments that are friendly to bees and exploring the use of other species for pollination and bio-control, particularly in non-European countries, are more ecologically sound approaches. The computer simulation of insect-plant interactions is a far more measured application of technology that may assist in managing, or averting, ‘Insect Armageddon' from both practical and ethical viewpoints.

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

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