IMPACT OF GLOBAL WARMING AND ADAPTATION STRATEGY IN THE COASTAL ZONE

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masahiko Isobe
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Adaptation Strategy

GLOBAL WARMING, IMPACT ON AGRICULTURE AND ADAPTATION STRATEGY

2012 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
KRISHNA P. PAUDEL ◽  
L. UPTON HATCH
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Global Warming Impact

Human Mobility and Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 113-201
Author(s):  
Grant Dawson ◽  
Rachel Laut
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Adaptive Approach ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
Human Movements ◽  
Human Cost ◽  
Legal Frameworks

Climate change will have distinct impacts on various regions and populations. In this context, human mobility can be an empowered adaptation strategy or an unwelcome necessity for survival with a high human cost. Existing legal frameworks were not created with a view to addressing human mobility in this context; there is presently scarce political will to develop new, bespoke legal mechanisms. The insufficiency of legal frameworks, coupled with increasing recognition that attempts to mitigate global warming will not be sufficient to prevent massive human movements, have driven the development of an adaptive approach. This article explores this development, first analyzing the conceptualization of human mobility in the context of climate change. The shift in focus from a rights-based to an adaptive approach is then discussed through an examination of the underpinnings of each approach. The article concludes with a consideration of the way forward, given the existing political landscape.

Coastal-Zone Biogeochemical Dynamics under Global Warming

2000 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred T. Mackenzie ◽  
Leah May Ver ◽  
Abraham Lerman
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Coastal Zone

Global warming and the coastal zone

1989 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 117-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Bardach
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Coastal Zone

scholarly journals Weather index insurance will offset heat-induced rice loss under global warming

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Z ZHANG ◽  
Chenzhi Wang ◽  
LiangLiang Zhang ◽  
Fulu Tao
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Adaptation Strategy ◽  
Index Insurance ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Weather Index ◽  
Weather Index Insurance ◽  
Pure Premium ◽  
Future Warming ◽  
Heat Extremes ◽  
First Time

Abstract Global warming threatens food security through causing increasing and severe yield losses from heat extremes, especially for smallholder rice-cropping farmers in Asia. Weather index insurance (WII) could transfer weather-related risks, secure farms’ income, and recover agricultural systems. Under future warming scenarios, however, the related studies are still scarce. Here, compared with the historical period (1961-2010), heat-induced loss will approximately increase by up to 5%, 18%, and 26% at 2100 under three shared socioeconomic pathways of CMIP6, respectively. As an ex-ante strategy, county-specific WII will improve farmers’ income by up to 13% and stabilize it by up to 36%, even though the pure premium rate of WII will increase by 10% at 2050 and by 30% at 2100. For the first time, our study proves WII is one effective adaptation strategy for the most susceptible farmers under global warming and has the potential to be applied for other crops and countries.

Modelling ecosystem adaptation and dangerous rates of global warming

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Millington ◽  
Peter M. Cox ◽  
Jonathan R. Moore ◽  
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Diffusion Rate ◽  
Individual Species ◽  
Genetic Evolution ◽  
Rates Of Change ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Warming Climate ◽  
Intraspecies Competition ◽  
High Trait

Abstract We are in a period of relatively rapid climate change. This poses challenges for individual species and threatens the ecosystem services that humanity relies upon. Temperature is a key stressor. In a warming climate, individual organisms may be able to shift their thermal optima through phenotypic plasticity. However, such plasticity is unlikely to be sufficient over the coming centuries. Resilience to warming will also depend on how fast the distribution of traits that define a species can adapt through other methods, in particular through redistribution of the abundance of variants within the population and through genetic evolution. In this paper, we use a simple theoretical ‘trait diffusion’ model to explore how the resilience of a given species to climate change depends on the initial trait diversity (biodiversity), the trait diffusion rate (mutation rate), and the lifetime of the organism. We estimate theoretical dangerous rates of continuous global warming that would exceed the ability of a species to adapt through trait diffusion, and therefore lead to a collapse in the overall productivity of the species. As the rate of adaptation through intraspecies competition and genetic evolution decreases with species lifetime, we find critical rates of change that also depend fundamentally on lifetime. Dangerous rates of warming vary from 1°C per lifetime (at low trait diffusion rate) to 8°C per lifetime (at high trait diffusion rate). We conclude that rapid climate change is liable to favour short-lived organisms (e.g. microbes) rather than longer-lived organisms (e.g. trees).

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