A Case Study on Climate Change and its Effects on the Global Poor

2011 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Stephen Mastaler
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ecological Communities ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Warming Climate

AbstractThe Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's report, Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, outlines the risks that climate change is and will continue to bring to human and ecological communities across the globe. The report suggests it will be the global poor who will face the most devastating effects of global climate change. In light of this report, this paper will endeavor to articulate an understanding of who the global poor are today and how they are increasingly marginalized and disaffected by a warming climate. It will then identify and look to the experience of one Christian community's contextual response to the current suffering of the poor in order to identify the theological principles being lived out in the praxis of the community. After these principles are identified, the paper will evaluate them for appropriation in a theological ethic that can serve as further inspiration for continued and future faith-filled responses to the emerging challenges of climate change on marginalized communities.

Orchestrating the nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barley Norton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Periods ◽  
Party State

This chapter addresses the cultural politics, history and revival of Vietnamese court orchestras, which were first established at the beginning of the Nguyễn dynasty (1802–1945). Based on fieldwork in the city of Hue, it considers the decolonizing processes that have enabled Vietnamese court orchestras to take their place alongside other East Asian court orchestras as a display of national identity in the global community of nations. The metaphor of ‘orchestrating the nation’ is used to refer to the ways in which Vietnamese orchestras have been harnessed for sociopolitical ends in several historical periods. Court orchestras as heritage have recourse to a generic, precolonial past, yet they are not entirely uncoupled from local roots. Through a case-study of the revival of the Nam Giao Sacrifice, a ritual for ‘venerating heaven’, the chapter addresses the dynamics of interaction and exchange between staged performances of national heritage and local Buddhist and ancestor worship rituals. It argues that with growing concern about global climate change, the spiritual and ecological resonances of the Nam Giao Sacrifice have provided opportunities for the Party-state to reassert its position as the supreme guardian of the nation and its people.

scholarly journals Microclimate Observation at Hermann’s Tortoise (Testudo hermanni boettgeri) Habitat in the “Iron Gates” Natural Park. Case Study: Lower Eșelniţa Watershed (Banat, Romania)

2014 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Cristiana-Maria Ciocanea ◽  
Athanasios-Alexandru Gavrilidis ◽  
Vasile Bagrinovschi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Vegetation Structure ◽  
Conservation Management ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Suitable Habitat ◽  
The South ◽  
Natural Park ◽  
Testudo Hermanni

Abstract “Iron Gates” Natural Park is located in the South-Western part of Romania and is recognized for its great diversity of ecosystems, wide variety of species and emblematic landscapes. Due to its Mediterranean climatic influences and vegetation structure, the area is a suitable habitat for the existence and development of Testudo hermanni boettgeri. Monitoring both, the evolution of the microclimatic features in the lower Eșelnița watershed and the species behaviour, represents a useful step in order to determine if the global climate change endangers the conservation management of the tortoise.

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

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.

Physical Condition of the Ocean to Global Climate Change Variability: Case Study in The Batam Waters, Indonesia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zainuddin Lubis ◽  
Wenang Anurogo ◽  
Mir'atul Mufida ◽  
Herika Muhamad Taki ◽  
Satria Antoni ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Physical Condition ◽  
Global Climate

scholarly journals Impacts of Global Climate Change on the Future Ocean Wave Power Potential: A Case Study from the Indian Ocean

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. 3028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harshinie Karunarathna ◽  
Pravin Maduwantha ◽  
Bahareh Kamranzad ◽  
Harsha Rathnasooriya ◽  
Kasun De Silva
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Wave Model ◽  
Wave Power ◽  
South West ◽  
Wave Power Potential

This study investigates the impacts of global climate change on the future wave power potential, taking Sri Lanka as a case study from the northern Indian Ocean. The geographical location of Sri Lanka, which receives long-distance swell waves generated in the Southern Indian Ocean, favors wave energy-harvesting. Waves projected by a numerical wave model developed using Simulating Waves Nearshore Waves (SWAN) wave model, which is forced by atmospheric forcings generated by an Atmospheric Global Climate Model (AGCM) within two time slices that represent “present” and “future” (end of century) wave climates, are used to evaluate and compare present and future wave power potential around Sri Lanka. The results reveal that there will be a 12–20% reduction in average available wave power along the south-west and south-east coasts of Sri Lanka in future. This reduction is due mainly to changes to the tropical south-west monsoon system because of global climate change. The available wave power resource attributed to swell wave component remains largely unchanged. Although a detailed analysis of monthly and annual average wave power under both “present” and “future” climates reveals a strong seasonal and some degree of inter-annual variability of wave power, a notable decadal-scale trend of variability is not visible during the simulated 25-year periods. Finally, the results reveal that the wave power attributed to swell waves are very stable over the long term.

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