Multi-scale quantitative assessment of the relative roles of climate change and human activities in desertification – A case study of the Ordos Plateau, China

2010 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 498-507 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.Y. Xu ◽  
X.W. Kang ◽  
D.F. Zhuang ◽  
J.J. Pan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Ordos Plateau

scholarly journals Extending the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways at the City Scale to Inform Future Vulnerability Assessments — The Case of Boston, Massachusetts

2019 ◽  
Vol 06 (03n04) ◽  
pp. 2050009
Author(s):  
Jayne Lino ◽  
Guillaume Rohat ◽  
Paul Kirshen ◽  
Hy Dao
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Vulnerability Assessments ◽  
Neighborhood Scale ◽  
The City ◽  
Neighborhood Level

Climate change will impact cities’ infrastructure and urban dwellers, who often show differentiated capacity to cope with climate-related hazards. The Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) are part of an emerging research field which uses global socioeconomic and climate scenarios, developed by the climate change research community, to explore how different socioeconomic pathways will influence future society’s ability to cope with climate change. While the SSPs have been extensively used at the global scale, their use at the local and urban scale has remained rare, as they first need to be contextualized and extended for the particular place of interest. In this study, we present and apply a method to develop multi-scale extended SSPs at the city and neighborhood scale. Using Boston, Massachusetts, as a case study, we combined scenario matching, experts’ elicitation, and participatory processes to contextualize and make the global SSPs relevant at the urban scale. We subsequently employed the extended SSPs to explore future neighborhood-level vulnerability to extreme heat under multiple plausible socioeconomic trajectories, highlighting the usefulness of extended SSPs in informing future vulnerability assessments. The large differences in outcomes hint at the enormous potential of risk reduction that social and urban planning policies could trigger in the next decades.

Quantitative assessment of the contributions of climate change and human activities on global grassland degradation

2014 ◽  
Vol 72 (11) ◽  
pp. 4273-4282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengcheng Gang ◽  
Wei Zhou ◽  
Yizhao Chen ◽  
Zhaoqi Wang ◽  
Zhengguo Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Quantitative Assessment ◽  
Grassland Degradation

scholarly journals Climate change communication programs – a case study for local government managers in Thuan An district, Binh Duong province

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Tuan Ngoc Le ◽  
Trang Thi Thu Dien
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Object Properties ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Communication Programs

95% of the causes of climate change (CC), according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are rooted from human activities. Raising community awareness is, thus, the primary solution to the issue. This research aims to develop communication programs to raise public awareness of CC, a case study in Thuan An District. The context, object properties, information gaps, and communication demand, etc. have been surveyed and documented. Thereby, the CC communication programs were proposed, including: objectives, messages, media, and compatible communication activities, etc. The communication materials (manuals, posters, training books, etc.) were also compiled accordingly. This model can be expanded in other areas, contributing to improvement of managers’ awareness and management capacity, and then being more proactive in coping to the current situation of CC in the province.

scholarly journals Satellite Monitoring the Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Desertification in Response to Climate Change and Human Activities across the Ordos Plateau, China

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiang Guo ◽  
Bihong Fu ◽  
Pilong Shi ◽  
Thomas Cudahy ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Satellite Monitoring ◽  
Ordos Plateau
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