International Debate Over Geoengineering and Geoengineering Governance

In the face of the severe challenge of global climate change, all countries find it difficult to hold the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2[Formula: see text]C above pre-industrial levels, let alone 1.5[Formula: see text]C. In recent years, geoengineering has gained increasingly more attention from the international community as an unconventional option to deal with climate change, and it has also provoked heated debates. This paper attempts to sort out related concepts, the focus of controversies and the research progress in terms of geoengineering, analyzes the international background of heated debate over geoengineering, probes into the governance of geoengineering under the framework of coping with climate change, and offers some suggestions for China to make strategic plans for geoengineering development.

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Climate Change and the Health of Urban Populations

Urban Health ◽

10.1093/oso/9780190915858.003.0014 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 129-138

Author(s):

Patrick L. Kinney

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Urban Health ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Urban Resilience ◽

Urban Populations ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

Urban Heat ◽

Risk Of Exposure

Global climate change represents one of the sentinel changes the world is facing and that will threaten population health in this century. In the context of urban health, climate change threatens to increase urban heat island effects, to change exposure to pollution, and to increase urban residents’ risk of exposure to natural disasters, among other phenomena. And yet urban innovation is central to the longer term solution to climate change from the development of innovative approaches that reduce cities’ carbon footprint to initiatives that increase urban resilience in the face of climate change threats. This chapter discusses the threat that climate change poses for urban populations and potential approaches that can mitigate this challenge toward improving urban health.

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Creaturely Communal Ontology in Practice: John Zizioulas in Dialogue with Ritual Theory

Religions ◽

10.3390/rel10090506 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (9) ◽

pp. 506

Author(s):

John W. Compton

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Ecological Crisis ◽

Full Diversity ◽

Ritual Theory ◽

The World ◽

The Face ◽

Foundational Work ◽

As If

This article is born out of a deep concern for our current ecological crisis and serves as a beginning foundational work for how the Christian tradition can address global climate change. Our current way of being gives precedence to the autonomous individual, whose freedom is characterized by disregard for other creatures. John Zizioulas’ communal ontology demonstrates that as the world was created out of God’s loving will, it is comprised of relationship. Living into individuation and division is a refusal of this communion with other creatures and God, but the Eucharist serves as the ritual that brings Christians into communion through the remembrance of Christ. Ian McFarland’s work on the theology of creation provides the helpful nuance that creaturely movement in communion must include the full diversity of creatures. I then turn to Bruce Morrill’s work to demonstrate that the Eucharistic practice must have bearing beyond the walls of the church. It leads practitioners to live into eschatological hope and kenotic service to the world. John Seligman’s ritual theory demonstrates that ritual practice can accomplish these goals because it creates a subjunctive ‘as-if’ world in the face of the world that is perceived as chaotic. Through the continuous practice of the ritual, participants are then formed to live into this subjunctive ‘as-if’ world without ritual precedence. In this way, the Eucharistic practice can prepare practitioners to live into the kenotic service to a world broken by individuation that has led to global climate change and creaturely destruction.

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Conservation of Insects in the Face of Global Climate Change

Global Climate Change and Terrestrial Invertebrates ◽

10.1002/9781119070894.ch17 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 349-367 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Paula Arribas ◽

Pedro Abellán ◽

Josefa Velasco ◽

Andrés Millán ◽

David Sánchez-Fernández

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

The Face

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Pediatric Thermoregulation: Considerations in the Face of Global Climate Change

Nutrients ◽

10.3390/nu11092010 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (9) ◽

pp. 2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Caroline J. Smith

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Ultraviolet Radiation ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Heat Exposure ◽

Environmental Stressors ◽

Physiological Strain ◽

Increased Risk ◽

The Face ◽

And Performance

Predicted global climate change, including rising average temperatures, increasing airborne pollution, and ultraviolet radiation exposure, presents multiple environmental stressors contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. Extreme temperatures and more frequent and severe heat events will increase the risk of heat-related illness and associated complications in vulnerable populations, including infants and children. Historically, children have been viewed to possess inferior thermoregulatory capabilities, owing to lower sweat rates and higher core temperature responses compared to adults. Accumulating evidence counters this notion, with limited child–adult differences in thermoregulation evident during mild and moderate heat exposure, with increased risk of heat illness only at environmental extremes. In the context of predicted global climate change, extreme environmental temperatures will be encountered more frequently, placing children at increased risk. Thermoregulatory and overall physiological strain in high temperatures may be further exacerbated by exposure to/presence of physiological and environmental stressors including pollution, ultraviolet radiation, obesity, diabetes, associated comorbidities, and polypharmacy that are more commonly occurring at younger ages. The aim of this review is to revisit fundamental differences in child–adult thermoregulation in the face of these multifaceted climate challenges, address emerging concerns, and emphasize risk reduction strategies for the health and performance of children in the heat.

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Adaptation behavior in the face of global climate change: Survey responses from experts and decision makers serving the Florida Keys

Ocean & Coastal Management ◽

10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2010.10.008 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 37-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Pallab Mozumder ◽

Evan Flugman ◽

Timothy Randhir

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

Florida Keys ◽

Decision Makers ◽

The Face ◽

Survey Responses

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Regaining the traditional use of wildlife in wetlands on the coastal plain of Veracruz, Mexico: ensuring food security in the face of global climate change

Regional Environmental Change ◽

10.1007/s10113-016-0955-x ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 17 (5) ◽

pp. 1343-1354 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Rosa María González-Marín ◽

Patricia Moreno-Casasola ◽

Alejandro Antonio Castro-Luna ◽

Alicia Castillo

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Food Security ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Coastal Plain ◽

Global Climate ◽

Traditional Use ◽

The Face

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Research progress and prospect of coastal flood disaster risk assessment against global climate change

Journal of Geography and Cartography ◽

10.24294/jgc.v4i2.1311 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Jiayi Fang ◽

Peijun Shi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Risk Assessment ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Global Climate ◽

High Tide ◽

Coastal Flooding ◽

Coastal Areas ◽

Mitigation Measures ◽

Research Progress ◽

Coastal Flood

The sea level rise under global climate change and coastal floods caused by extreme sea levels due to the high tide levels and storm surges have huge impacts on coastal society, economy, and natural environment. It has drawn great attention from global scientific researchers. This study examines the definitions and elements of coastal flooding in the general and narrow senses, and mainly focuses on the components of coastal flooding in the narrow sense. Based on the natural disaster system theory, the review systematically summarizes the progress of coastal flood research in China, and then discusses existing problems in present studies and provide future research directions with regard to this issue. It is proposed that future studies need to strengthen research on adapting to climate change in coastal areas, including studies on the risk of multi- hazards and uncertainties of hazard impacts under climate change, risk assessment of key exposure (critical infrastructure) in coastal hotspots, and cost-benefit analysis of adaptation and mitigation measures in coastal areas. Efforts to improve the resilience of coastal areas under climate change should be given more attention. The research community also should establish the mechanism of data sharing among disciplines to meet the needs of future risk assessments, so that coastal issues can be more comprehensively, systematically, and dynamically studied.

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Effect of increased ambient temperature on seasonal generation number in Lucilia sericata (Diptera, Calliphoridae)

Folia Oecologica ◽

10.2478/foecol-2021-0019 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 48 (2) ◽

pp. 191-198

Author(s):

Maksym V. Makaida ◽

Oleksander Y. Pakhomov ◽

Viktor V. Brygadyrenko

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Climate Change ◽

Temperature Increase ◽

Global Climate ◽

Steppe Zone ◽

Lucilia Sericata ◽

Farm Animals ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

Important Species ◽

Average Temperature

Abstract Global climate change and, specifically, rising temperatures, may increase the number of generations of necrophagous insects. The common green bottle fly Lucilia sericata (Meigen, 1826) (Diptera, Calliphoridae) ranks among the most important cosmopolitan necrophagous insects that utilize corpses and cause myiasis in farm animals and humans. Based on the data simulations, the use of accumulated degree-hours enables to calculate the number of generations of this forensically important species of blowfly with a greater accuracy than before, considering short-term increases of temperature at the boundary of the cold and warm seasons. The number of generations of L. sericata has increased from 7.65 to 8.46 in the Ukrainian steppe zone over the last 15 years, while the active developmental period of this species has increased by 25 days due to earlier start in spring. The average temperature increase of 1 °C increased the number of generations of L. sericata by 0.85. With a global climate change following the Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) 4.5 scenario (average temperature increase of 2.4 °C), adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, by 2100 the number of generations of L. sericata in a simulated ecosystem will increase by 2.0 to 9.0 generations per year.

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