The dynamics of desertification in the farming-pastoral region of North China over the past 10years and their relationship to climate change and human activity

CATENA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 11-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duanyang Xu ◽  
Chunlei Li ◽  
Xiao Song ◽  
Hongyan Ren
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
North China ◽  
The Past

scholarly journals Impact of climate change and human activity on the runoff in the upper reaches of the Shiyang River, Northwest China

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peng Li ◽  
Jianhua Xu ◽  
Zhongsheng Chen ◽  
Benfu Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Climatic Factors ◽  
Meteorological Data ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Potential Evaporation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shiyang River Basin ◽  
Runoff Change ◽  
Increasing Trend

Based on the hydrological and meteorological data of the upper reaches of Shiyang River basin in Northwest China from 1960 to 2009, this paper analyzed the change in runoff and its related climatic factors, and estimated the contribution of climate change and human activity to runoff change by using the moving T test, cumulative analysis of anomalies and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that temperature revealed a significant increasing trend, and potential evaporation capacity decreased significantly, while precipitation increased insignificantly in the past recent 50 years. Although there were three mutations in 1975, 1990 and 2002 respectively, runoff presented a slight decreasing trend in the whole period. The contributions of climate change and human activity to runoff change during the period of 1976-2009 were 45% and 55% respectively.

Introduction

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna D. Haigh ◽  
Peter Cargill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Past ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Composition Structure ◽  
Earth’S Climate ◽  
Fundamental Requirement

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Earth's climate system—its composition, structure, and circulation—and some of the ways in which these vary naturally with time. It examines the key features of the structure of the Sun, its magnetic field, atmosphere, and its emission of radiation and particles. A comprehension of how the sun affects the Earth is a fundamental requirement for understanding how climate has varied in the past and how it might change in the future. This is particularly important in the context of determining the cause(s) of climate change and understanding natural factors in order to be able to attribute to human activity any past or potential future influence on a range of timescales.

Ethics and politics in the Anthropocene

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (10) ◽  
pp. 1167-1181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maeve Cooke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Land Degradation ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Considerable Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
Ecological Problems ◽  
Ethics And Politics

The most fundamental challenge facing humans today is the imminent destruction of the life-generating and life-sustaining ecosystems that constitute the planet Earth. There is considerable evidence that the strongest contemporary ecological threat is anthropogenic climate change resulting from the increasing warming of the atmosphere, caused by cumulative CO2 and other emissions as a result of collective human activity over the past few 100 years. This process of climate change is reinforced by further ecological problems such as pollution of land, air and sea, depletion of resources, land degradation and the loss of biodiversity. The name gaining currency for this emerging epoch of instability in the Earth’s eco-systems is the Anthropocene. Anthropogenic climate change calls for a categorical shift in thinking about the place of humanity in these systems and requires fundamental rethinking of ethics and politics. What would an appropriate ethical frame for politics in the Anthropocene look like? In response to this question, I sketch a proposal for an ethically non-anthropocentric ethics. I draw on early Frankfurt School Critical Theorists, and on Habermas, but move beyond these theorists in key respects.

Multi-scale assessment of water security under climate change in North China in the past two decades

2021 ◽  
pp. 150103
Author(s):  
Guodong Yin ◽  
Guoqiang Wang ◽  
Xuan Zhang ◽  
Xiao Wang ◽  
Qiuhong Hu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North China ◽  
Water Security ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scale Assessment

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Climate Change in Organization and HR-Related Literature: A Conceptual Brief Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-27
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mousa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Natural Variability ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Organizational Literature

Abstract Climate change has become one of the main challenges facing humanity. Over the past decade, this phenomenon, which may have been caused by natural variability and/or human activity, has attracted many scholars from different scientific disciplines to warn of its potential consequences. The author of this paper has decided to address the existence of this important phenomenon in organizational literature. However, upon exploring different academic databases, the rarity of research focusing on climate change and its relationship and/or effect on HR or organizational aspects became obvious. Accordingly, the author recommends other HR and organizational scholars devote considerable space to this phenomenon in their field.

scholarly journals Impacts of human activity and climate change on the distribution of snub-nosed monkeys in China during the past 2000 years

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xumao Zhao ◽  
Baoping Ren ◽  
Paul A. Garber ◽  
Xinhai Li ◽  
Ming Li
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Past 2000 Years ◽  
Impacts Of Human Activity

scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Climate Change in Organization and HR-Related Literature: A Conceptual Brief Analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-108
Author(s):  
Mohamed Mousa
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Natural Variability ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Important Phenomenon ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Organizational Literature

Abstract Climate change has become one of the main challenges facing humanity. Over the past decade, this phenomenon, which may have been caused by natural variability and/or human activity, has attracted many scholars from different scientific disciplines to warn of its potential consequences. The author of this paper has decided to address the existence of this important phenomenon in organizational literature. However, upon exploring different academic databases, the rarity of research focusing on climate change and its relationship and/or effect on HR or organizational aspects became obvious. Accordingly, the author recommends other HR and organizational scholars devote considerable space to this phenomenon in their field.

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