scholarly journals Special Issue on Climate Migration

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Anda David ◽  
Frédéric Docquier
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
Weather Shocks ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Slow Onset

How do weather shocks influence human mobility and poverty, and how will long-term climate change affect future migration over the course of the 21st century? These questions have gained unprecedented attention in public debates as global warming is already having severe impacts around the world, and prospects for the coming decades get worse. Low-latitude countries in general, and their agricultural areas in particular, have contributed the least to climate change but are the most adversely affected. The effect on people's voluntary and forced displacements is of major concern for both developed and developing countries. On 18 October 2019, Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) organized a workshop on Climate Migration with the aim of uncovering the mechanisms through which fast-onset variables (such as weather anomalies, storms, hurricanes, torrential rains, floods, landslides, etc.) and slow-onset variables (such as temperature trends, desertification, rising sea level, coastal erosion, etc.) influence both people's incentives to move and mobility constraints. This special issue gathers five papers prepared for this workshop, which shed light on (or predict) the effect of extreme weather shocks and long-term climate change on human mobility, and stress the implications for the development community.

scholarly journals The Fingerprint of Climate Change and Urbanization in South Korea

Atmosphere ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 273 ◽  
Author(s):  
Won-Ho Nam ◽  
Guillermo Baigorria ◽  
Eun-Mi Hong ◽  
Taegon Kim ◽  
Yong-Sang Choi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Temporal Trends ◽  
Weather Data ◽  
Maximum Temperature ◽  
Island Effect ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
Agricultural Areas ◽  
Precipitation And Temperature

Understanding long-term changes in precipitation and temperature patterns is important in the detection and characterization of climate change, as is understanding the implications of climate change when performing impact assessments. This study uses a statistically robust methodology to quantify long-, medium- and short-term changes for evaluating the degree to which climate change and urbanization have caused temporal changes in precipitation and temperature in South Korea. We sought to identify a fingerprint of changes in precipitation and temperature based on statistically significant differences at multiple-timescales. This study evaluates historical weather data during a 40-year period (1973–2012) and from 54 weather stations. Our results demonstrate that between 1993–2012, minimum and maximum temperature trends in the vicinity of urban and agricultural areas are significantly different from the two previous decades (1973–1992). The results for precipitation amounts show significant differences in urban areas. These results indicate that the climate in urbanized areas has been affected by both the heat island effect and global warming-caused climate change. The increase in the number of rainfall events in agricultural areas is highly significant, although the temporal trends for precipitation amounts showed no significant differences. Overall, the impacts of climate change and urbanization in South Korea have not been continuous over time and have been expressed locally and regionally in terms of precipitation and temperature changes.

scholarly journals Drivers of Upper Atmosphere Climate Change

Eos ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Upper Atmosphere ◽  
Earth’S Magnetic Field ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
Earth's Magnetic Field ◽  
New Research

New research confirms the influence of carbon dioxide on long-term temperature trends in the upper atmosphere, but changes in Earth’s magnetic field also play a key role.

scholarly journals Migration and Conflict in a Global Warming Era: A Political Understanding of Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Silja Klepp ◽  
Christiane Fröhlich
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
Climate Change Politics ◽  
Political Understanding

This special issue explores underrepresented aspects of the political dimensions of global warming. It includes post- and decolonial perspectives on climate-related migration and conflict, intersectional approaches, and climate change politics as a new tool of governance. Its aim is to shed light on the social phenomena associated with anthropogenic climate change. The different contributions aim to uncover its multidimensional and far-reaching political effects, including climate-induced migration movements and climate-related conflicts in different parts of the world. In doing so, the authors critically engage with securitising discourses and resulting anti-migration arguments and policies in the Global North. In this way, they identify and give a voice to alternative and hitherto underrepresented research and policy perspectives. Overall, the special issue aims to contribute to a critical and holistic approach to human mobility and conflict in the context of political and environmental crisis.

scholarly journals Editorial for Special Issue “Earth Radiation Budget”

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (20) ◽  
pp. 3379
Author(s):  
Steven Dewitte
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Radiation Budget ◽  
Climate Data ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Earth Radiation Budget ◽  
Term Monitoring ◽  
Earth Radiation

The Earth Radiation Budget (ERB) at the top of the atmosphere describes how the Earth gains energy from the Sun and loses energy to space through the reflection of solar radiation and the emission of thermal radiation. The ERB is measured from space with dedicated remote sensing instruments. Its long-term monitoring is of fundamental importance for understanding climate change. This Special Issue contains contributions focusing on ERB remote sensing instruments for either (1) the establishment of past and current ERB Climate Data Records (CDRs), (2) insights in climate change gained from the analysis of ERB CDRs, and 3) the outlook for continued or improved future ERB monitoring.

scholarly journals Insurance as a risk management system in green construction

2022 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 06003
Author(s):  
Kheda Murtazova ◽  
Salambek Aliyev
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Green Building ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Corporate Strategies ◽  
Climate Risks ◽  
Risk Management System ◽  
The Impact

The study of the problems of the impact of climate change on economic development has become in recent years one of the main directions of economic research. At the same time, along with the development of a global macroeconomic policy in the field of climate and green building, more and more attention is paid to the analysis of corporate strategies to reduce risks and adapt to the consequences of climate change. Without large-scale business investments in green innovative technologies and the introduction of corporate standards for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, it is impossible to achieve long-term targets for reducing global climate risks.

scholarly journals A Comprehensive Assessment of Drought and Climate Change

2018 ◽  
Vol 246 ◽  
pp. 02008
Author(s):  
yimin Qian ◽  
Shuiping Yao ◽  
Kun Yan ◽  
Wenjia Tang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Standardized Precipitation Index ◽  
Trigger Mechanism ◽  
Historical Climatology ◽  
Term Variation ◽  
Mitigation Methods ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Slow Onset

Drought is one of slow onset natural hazards with great impacts in many aspects, such as economy, agricultural and human health. To well manage drought, the areal coverage, duration and frequency can be analyzed and estimated to provide insight into historical perspective of drought events as well the long-term variation of climate in the study area. This study tries to explore the natural of drought including its definitions, categories, trigger mechanism and possible mitigation methods. This research studies the drought characteristics in Wyoming, United States based on the rainfall data from the U. S Historical Climatology Network (USHCN). The main approach is Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI), which provides the means to analyze drought at different time scales and discusses the relationship between drought and climate change.

Future imaginings and the battle over climate science: an interview with Michael Mann

Organization ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 748-756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Wright ◽  
Michael Mann
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Temperature Variations ◽  
Central Target ◽  
Climate Reconstructions ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
Climate Change Denial ◽  
Michael Mann ◽  
Historical Temperature

Professor Michael Mann is one of the world’s leading climate scientists and best known for his work on historical temperature trends and hemispherical climate reconstructions, including the iconic ‘hockey stick’ graph of long-term temperature variations. As a result of his work, Professor Mann became a central target of criticism from conservative politicians, industry groups and the climate change denial industry. The following edited interview was conducted in October 2012.

scholarly journals Seabird establishment during regional cooling drove a terrestrial ecosystem shift 5000 years ago

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (43) ◽  
pp. eabb2788
Author(s):  
Dulcinea V. Groff ◽  
Kit M. Hamley ◽  
Trevor J. R. Lessard ◽  
Kayla E. Greenawalt ◽  
Moriaki Yasuhara ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Southern Ocean ◽  
Terrestrial Ecosystem ◽  
Cold Climate ◽  
Breeding Habitat ◽  
Falkland Islands ◽  
Low Latitude ◽  
Ecosystem Shift ◽  
Ecosystem State

The coastal tussac (Poa flabellata) grasslands of the Falkland Islands are a critical seabird breeding habitat but have been drastically reduced by grazing and erosion. Meanwhile, the sensitivity of seabirds and tussac to climate change is unknown because of a lack of long-term records in the South Atlantic. Our 14,000-year multiproxy record reveals an ecosystem state shift following seabird establishment 5000 years ago, as marine-derived nutrients from guano facilitated tussac establishment, peat productivity, and increased fire. Seabird arrival coincided with regional cooling, suggesting that the Falkland Islands are a cold-climate refugium. Conservation efforts focusing on tussac restoration should include this terrestrial-marine linkage, although a warming Southern Ocean calls into question the long-term viability of the Falkland Islands as habitat for low-latitude seabirds.

scholarly journals Climate Change, Temperature, and Homicide: A Tale of Two Cities, 1895–2015

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lynch ◽  
Paul B. Stretesky ◽  
Michael A. Long
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Seasonal Temperature ◽  
Temperature Changes ◽  
Temperature Trends ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Change Temperature ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Seasonal Weather

AbstractIt has been argued that the temperature increase caused by anthropogenic climate change will produce a significant increase in violent crime. Support for that prediction is often based on statistical analyses of seasonal temperature and crime data cycles across days, months, and quarters and sometimes on large geographic areas. Within-year temperature changes are very large, however, relative to the 30-yr temperature increases employed to measure climate change. In addition, because temperature trends associated with climate change vary geographically, analyses should employ small geographic units for which temperature changes are measured over yearly intervals and for long periods of time. To address these conditions, this study examined the long-term temperature–crime association for homicides in New York and London for 1895–2015. Consistent with previous studies examining seasonal weather and crime patterns, we found a positive correlation between annual homicide rates and temperature, but only at the bivariate level. This relationship became statistically insignificant in both New York and London when gross domestic product is controlled. Moreover, the bivariate relationship between temperature and homicide is statistically insignificant when correcting for nonstationarity. Thus, it does not appear that climate change has led to higher rates of homicide in New York and London over the long term. These nonfindings are important because they suggest that studies of climate change and violence might do well to consider alternative mechanisms that mediate the relationship between climate change and violence.

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