Climate Change-Induced Environmental Hazards and Aila Relief Measures Undertaken to Sundarbans in Bangladesh and India

2019 ◽  
pp. 469-490
Author(s):  
Bimal Kanti Paul ◽  
Subarna Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Hazards

scholarly journals Geoinformation Technologies in Support of Environmental Hazards Monitoring under Climate Change: An Extensive Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Andreas Tsatsaris ◽  
Kleomenis Kalogeropoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Stathopoulos ◽  
Panagiota Louka ◽  
Konstantinos Tsanakas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Monitoring ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
The Impact

Human activities and climate change constitute the contemporary catalyst for natural processes and their impacts, i.e., geo-environmental hazards. Globally, natural catastrophic phenomena and hazards, such as drought, soil erosion, quantitative and qualitative degradation of groundwater, frost, flooding, sea level rise, etc., are intensified by anthropogenic factors. Thus, they present rapid increase in intensity, frequency of occurrence, spatial density, and significant spread of the areas of occurrence. The impact of these phenomena is devastating to human life and to global economies, private holdings, infrastructure, etc., while in a wider context it has a very negative effect on the social, environmental, and economic status of the affected region. Geospatial technologies including Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing—Earth Observation as well as related spatial data analysis tools, models, databases, contribute nowadays significantly in predicting, preventing, researching, addressing, rehabilitating, and managing these phenomena and their effects. This review attempts to mark the most devastating geo-hazards from the view of environmental monitoring, covering the state of the art in the use of geospatial technologies in that respect. It also defines the main challenge of this new era which is nothing more than the fictitious exploitation of the information produced by the environmental monitoring so that the necessary policies are taken in the direction of a sustainable future. The review highlights the potential and increasing added value of geographic information as a means to support environmental monitoring in the face of climate change. The growth in geographic information seems to be rapidly accelerated due to the technological and scientific developments that will continue with exponential progress in the years to come. Nonetheless, as it is also highlighted in this review continuous monitoring of the environment is subject to an interdisciplinary approach and contains an amount of actions that cover both the development of natural phenomena and their catastrophic effects mostly due to climate change.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Schools: Environmental Hazards and Resiliency

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (11) ◽  
pp. 1397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perry Sheffield ◽  
Simone Uijttewaal ◽  
James Stewart ◽  
Maida Galvez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Hazards

scholarly journals Counteracting Climate Science Politicization With Effective Frames and Imagery

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 147-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toby Bolsen ◽  
Risa Palm ◽  
Justin T. Kingsland
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Present Evidence ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Change Beliefs

Politicization of science occurs when the inherent uncertainty of science is emphasized to cast doubt on scientific consensus. Climate change has become particularly susceptible to this kind of politicization. In this article, we report the results of a survey experiment in which we manipulated text frames and visual imagery associated with two types of environmental hazards linked to climate change—sea level rise with associated flooding and increased heat levels with associated drought and wildfires. We present evidence that the use of visual imagery can counter the effects that science politicization has on climate change beliefs and behaviors.

Environmental Hazards, Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction: J. K. Mitchell’s Relevance to the Global Sustainable Development Agenda

2016 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1671006
Author(s):  
Juha I. Uitto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Complex Disasters

This paper argues how Mitchell’s work on complex disasters and environmental hazards is highly relevant to the global Sustainable Development Agenda and the international organizations involved in its implementation. The paper takes as its starting point two United Nations University projects led by Mitchell in the 1990s and reviews their prescience in terms of current developments in the context of urbanizations, economic development, population growth, and global environmental change. The issue of adaptation to climate change is highlighted as exemplifying the importance of integrated approaches encompassing human and natural systems, as advocated by Mitchell. Challenges to program and policy evaluation are then discussed with regard to adaptation, adopting Mitchell’s approach of understanding local situations while anchoring evaluation in scientific knowledge.

Effects of Climate Change on Environmental Hazards in Local Communities: A Data Visualization Prototype

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Wang* ◽  
Jeremy Prather ◽  
Jeremy Chesher ◽  
Jeff Ashby ◽  
Kali Frost ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Local Communities

scholarly journals Climate Change Impacts on Environmental Hazards on the Great Hungarian Plain, Carpathian Basin

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 136-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gábor Mezősi ◽  
Teodóra Bata ◽  
Burghard C. Meyer ◽  
Viktória Blanka ◽  
Zsuzsanna Ladányi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Carpathian Basin ◽  
Great Hungarian Plain ◽  
Hungarian Plain

scholarly journals Playing for a Resilient Future: A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexity of the Interaction among Climate Change, Disaster Risk and Urban Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (17) ◽  
pp. 8949
Author(s):  
Wei Gao ◽  
Yuwei Guo ◽  
Fanying Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Green Infrastructure ◽  
Urban Expansion ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Environmental Hazards ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Serious Game ◽  
Trade Offs

Urban development and disaster risk are deeply linked, especially now when we are facing increasingly frequent climate change. Hence, knowledge of the potential trade-offs between urban development and disaster risk reduction (DRR) may have potential to build a resilient and sustainable future. The objectives of this study are (1) to present education for a sustainability (EfS) program and to evaluate its performance: a serious game of knowledge communication for the interactions among climate change, disaster risk, and urban development; (2) to explore factors that will influence the players’ decision making in the trade-offs between urban development and DRR under an urbanization background through counterfactual scenarios constructed by a series of serious games. The Yudai Trench, once a critical component of the urban green infrastructure of ancient Guangzhou, has disappeared under rapid urban expansion, leaving the city exposed to environmental hazards caused by climate change. Is the disappearance of the Yudai Trench an inevitable event in the progress of urbanization? To answer this question, the study constructed counterfactual scenarios by recuring the historical progress through the same serious game. Gameplay involved the players’ decision making with associated impacts on the urbanization progress and the DRR in diverse climate hazard scenarios. For this study, 107 undergraduates from related majors, who are also would-be policymakers, were selected as players. The methodology combined questionnaire survey and participant observation complemented by interviews. The t-test results indicated that undergraduates’ knowledge levels had significant positive changes after the end of the serious game. Importantly, the results showed that the knowledge could potentially contribute to the players’ decision-making process for DRR by assisting them in making pre-decision. Beside this knowledge, the results expanded the range of influencing factors and solutions reported by previous literature on DRR under an urbanization background against climate hazards by constructing counterfactual scenarios, e.g., higher economic levels and policy incentives. In this study, the serious game was evaluated as an innovative communication and the EfS method in counterfactual scenarios. These findings of the study provide a reference for future practice, policymaking, and decision making so as to help harness lessons learned from unrealized environmental hazards to support a more resilient future through informed policies and plans.

scholarly journals Climate Change and Potential Environmental Hazards with Perspective Adaptation Technologies in Nigeria, A review

2020 ◽  
Vol 445 ◽  
pp. 012059
Author(s):  
A A Okunola ◽  
A J Gana ◽  
K O Olorunfemi ◽  
K S Obaniyi ◽  
C O Osueke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Hazards
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