Climate change impacts on tropical cyclones and extreme sea levels in the South Pacific — A regional assessment

Ports constitute a significant influence in the economic activity in coastal areas through operations and infrastructures to facilitate land and maritime transport of cargo. Ports are located in a multi-dimensional environment facing ocean and river hazards. Higher warming scenarios indicate Europe’s ports will be exposed to higher risk due to the increase in extreme sea levels (ESL), a combination of the mean sea level, tide, and storm surge. Located on the west Iberia Peninsula, the Aveiro Port is located in a coastal lagoon exposed to ocean and river flows, contributing to higher flood risk. This study aims to assess the flood extent for Aveiro Port for historical (1979–2005), near future (2026–2045), and far future (2081–2099) periods scenarios considering different return periods (10, 25, and 100-year) for the flood drivers, through numerical simulations of the ESL, wave regime, and riverine flows simultaneously. Spatial maps considering the flood extent and calculated area show that most of the port infrastructures' resilience to flooding is found under the historical period, with some marginal floods. Under climate change impacts, the port flood extent gradually increases for higher return periods, where most of the terminals are at high risk of being flooded for the far-future period, whose contribution is primarily due to mean sea-level rise and storm surges.

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Climate Change, Mining and Traditional Indigenous Knowledge in Australia

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v4i1.442 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 92-101 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Tony Birch

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Negative Consequences ◽

Sea Levels ◽

Depth Of Knowledge ◽

The North ◽

Weather Events ◽

Rising Sea Levels ◽

Indigenous Society

Australia, in common with nations globally, faces an immediate and future environmental and economic challenge as an outcome of climate change. Indigenous communities in Australia, some who live a precarious economic and social existence, are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Impacts are already being experienced through dramatic weather events such as floods and bushfires. Other, more gradual changes, such as rising sea levels in the north of Australia, will have long-term negative consequences on communities, including the possibility of forced relocation. Climate change is also a historical phenomenon, and Indigenous communities hold a depth of knowledge of climate change and its impact on local ecologies of benefit to the wider community when policies to deal with an increasingly warmer world are considered. Non-Indigenous society must respect this knowledge and facilitate alliances with Indigenous communities based on a greater recognition of traditional knowledge systems.

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Climate Change Impacts on West African Agriculture: An Integrated Regional Assessment (CIWARA)

Handbook of Climate Change and Agroecosystems - Series on Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation, and Mitigation ◽

10.1142/9781783265640_0014 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 25-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Samuel G. K. Adiku ◽

Dilys S. MacCarthy ◽

Ibrahima Hathie ◽

Madina Diancoumba ◽

Bright S. Freduah ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

West African ◽

Regional Assessment ◽

African Agriculture

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Climate Change, Global Justice, and Health Inequities

Climate Change and the People's Health ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190492731.003.0001 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-56

Author(s):

Sharon Friel

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Justice ◽

Social Systems ◽

Environmental Epidemiology ◽

Climate Change Impacts ◽

Health Inequities ◽

Sea Levels ◽

Vector Borne Diseases ◽

Rising Sea Levels

This chapter explains the role of human activities in driving climate change, and some of its most significant impacts. It discusses justice issues raised by climate change, including causal responsibility, future development rights, the distribution of climate change harms, and intergenerational inequity. The chapter also provides a status update on current health inequities, noting the now recognized role of political, economic, commercial, and social factors in determining health. This section also discusses environmental epidemiology and the shift to eco-social approaches and eco-epidemiology, noting that while eco-epidemiologists have begun to research the influence of climate change on health, this research has not yet considered in depth the influence of social systems. The chapter concludes with an overview of how climate change exacerbates existing health inequities, focusing on the health implications of significant climate change impacts, including extreme weather events, rising sea levels, heat stress, vector-borne diseases, and food insecurity.

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