scholarly journals Ecotourism for Rural Karnataka: Some Impact Assessments

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-105
Author(s):  
D C Nanjunda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Negative Impacts

unique heritage, cultural and natural attractions. Karnataka has tremendous potentiality for the growth and development of ecotourism. In fact Karnataka forms a part of the global biodiversity hot spots with varieties of rural heritage, which can be used for advocating environmental awareness, long-term conservation measures and economic benefits to the local people. Tourism is one of the largest and fastest growing economic sectors worldwide especially in Karnataka. Climate change and its various impacts pose a significant risk to tourism, especially in developing countries where tourism is often the single most important industry. However experts feel ecotourism also causes a kind of atrocity on the bio diversity. Through this article the author is analyzing both positive and negative impacts of ecotourism.

scholarly journals Multi-benefits of national parks and protected areas: an integrative approach for developing countries

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shah Md. Atiqul Haq
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Parks And Protected Areas ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractNational parks and protected areas can contribute significantly to the needs of poor people who live in and around them and depend heavily on forest resources for their subsistence. Especially for the rural poor who have limited economic options, use of national park resources are the main source for their survival, giving them direct benefits from food, medicine and forest products. National parks can contribute to maintaining the ecosystem and biodiversity conservation, along with the economic benefits to the local population. National parks and protected areas can play a significant role in climate change mitigation as well. Nevertheless, benefits from these areas are not well recognized in management especially in developing countries by incorporating them for climate change mitigation. Though usually more priority is given to conservation, improvement of livelihood and climate change mitigation can be achieved by integrating national parks into management and policy, and by consideration of the potential of human resources. Thus the integration can improve the poverty situation of local people and help them to adapt to climatic change mitigation strategies. Therefore, management of national parks and protected areas should ensure the participation of local communities and stakeholders.

Pollination and Restoration

Science ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 325 (5940) ◽  
pp. 571-573 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kingsley W. Dixon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Biodiversity Hotspots ◽  
Pollination Services ◽  
Global Biodiversity ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Pollination services underpin sustainability of restored ecosystems. Yet, outside of agri-environments, effective restoration of pollinator services in ecological restoration has received little attention. This deficiency in the knowledge needed to restore pollinator capability represents a major liability in restoration programs, particularly in regions where specialist invertebrate and vertebrate pollinators exist, such as global biodiversity hotspots. When compounded with the likely negative impacts of climate change on pollination services, the need to understand and manage pollinator services in restoration becomes paramount.

Carbon-sensitive productivity, climate and institutions

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Surender Kumar ◽  
Shunsuke Managi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Growth Potential ◽  
Technological Adoption ◽  
Lost Productivity ◽  
Reduce Emissions ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Cost

AbstractClimate and institutions might be crucial in lowering the vagaries of climate change impacts in terms of productivity. This study measures the relationships of productivity measures adjusted for the regulation of carbon emission and institutions together with climate change throughout the world. This paper finds that there is higher potential for reduction of CO2emissions in developing countries at lower cost. However, the cost to reduce emissions lowers their growth potential in terms of lost productivity growth. Better institutions help to lower the negative impacts of climate change by improving the process of technological adoption in developing countries. Climate change reduces the productivity growth in developing countries by lowering the process of technological adoption, and better institutions result in higher productivity.

scholarly journals Contextual Weather and Climate Broadcast System: Case for Nganyi Community Farmers in Kisumu

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 1000-1008
Author(s):  
Dr. Daniel Orwa Ochieng ◽  
Sharon Wanjiru Kamau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mobile Phone ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Steady Increase ◽  
Previous Survey ◽  
Economic Growth And Development ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Rural Economies ◽  
Weather And Climate ◽  
Negative Impacts

Mobile phone ownership has seen a steady increase in Kenya in the last five years and currently stands at 28.08 million mobile phone subscribers spread throughout the country. With poor road infrastructure, the mobile phone has become invaluable in reaching many people and can be useful in broadcasting information such as in education, health, agriculture and many other sectors. Previous survey and analysis indicates that implementation of technology is one of the key effectors of turnaround of rural economies. The main challenge that lies ahead is one of strengthening the innovation capabilities of African in order to be able to successfully address negative impacts caused by climate change and achieve broader economic growth and development.

scholarly journals Regulation strength and technology creep play key roles in global long-term projections of wild capture fisheries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Scherrer ◽  
Eric Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Large Degree ◽  
Size Spectrum ◽  
Spatially Resolved ◽  
Fish Catch ◽  
Regulation Strength ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Temporary Stabilization

Abstract Many studies have shown that the global fish catch can only be sustained with effective regulation that restrains overfishing. However, the persistence of weak or ineffective regulation in many parts of the world, coupled with changing technologies and additional stressors like climate change, renders the future of global catches uncertain. Here, we use a spatially resolved, bio-economic size-spectrum model to shed light on the interactive impacts of three globally important drivers over multidecadal timescales: imperfect regulation, technology-driven catchability increase, and climate change. We implement regulation as the adjustment of fishing towards a target level with some degree of effectiveness and project a range of possible trajectories for global fisheries. We find that if technological progress continues apace, increasingly effective regulation is required to prevent overfishing, akin to a Red Queen race. Climate change reduces the possible upper bound for global catches, but its economic impacts can be offset by strong regulation. Ominously, technological progress under weak regulation masks a progressive erosion of fish biomass by boosting profits and generating a temporary stabilization of global catches. Our study illustrates the large degree to which the long-term outlook of global fisheries can be improved by continually strengthening fisheries regulation, despite the negative impacts of climate change.

DEALING WITH CLIMATE CHANGE: POSSIBLE PATHWAYS FORWARD

2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 611
Author(s):  
B.S. Fisher ◽  
G.N. Jakeman ◽  
K.G. Woffenden ◽  
V.A. Tulpulé ◽  
S.T. Hester
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Environmental Effectiveness ◽  
Growth Prospects ◽  
Environmental Goal ◽  
Environmental Outcome

Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the international community has sought to find a policy framework to address the threat of human induced climate change. The most significant action to date has been the adoption of the Kyoto Protocol in December 1997, which could enter into force in 2003. The protocol includes legally binding emission reductions for some countries over the period 2008–12.It has yet not been possible, however, to find an approach that is truly global and that is aligned with the long-term environmental goal of reducing global greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level.A framework for action that addresses these shortcomings is developed in this paper. The underlying tenets are environmental effectiveness, economic efficiency, and equity. The power of technology is drawn into the solution, the importance of an appropriate timeframe for action is acknowledged and involvement by all major emitting countries is facilitated. Importantly, this last point includes participation by developing countries in a way that accommodates their aspirations for economic growth. Together, these elements allow a response that minimises costs and maximises the environmental outcome while at the same time enhancing the growth prospects of developing countries.

scholarly journals The Role of Transdisciplinary Research for Agricultural Climate Change Adaptation Strategies

Agronomy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Schermer ◽  
Rike Stotten ◽  
Ulrich Strasser ◽  
Gertraud Meißl ◽  
Thomas Marke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Land Use Changes ◽  
Transdisciplinary Research ◽  
Economic Sectors ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Local Stakeholders

While science widely acknowledges the necessity of climate change adaptation (CCA), concrete strategies for CCA by major land-use actor groups at a local level are largely missing. Immediate economic challenges often prevent the establishment of long-term collective strategies. However, collective decisions on a communal level regarding land use are crucial for CCA strategies, given the interdependencies of farming with forestry, tourism, and other economic sectors, especially in mountain areas. This paper presents inter- and trans-disciplinary learning processes, which have evolved into a project modelling the hydrological effects of combined future climate and land-use changes based on the combined scenarios of climate and socio-economic change in an Alpine valley (Brixental in Tyrol/Austria). Locally adapted scenarios illustrate future land-use changes as a result of both climate change and different socio-economic developments. The hydrological results show how an increase in the forested area reduces streamflow (as a measure of water availability) in the long term. For local stakeholders, the process demonstrated clearly the interdependence of different economic sectors and the necessity for collective action at a regional level to influence socio-economic development. Moreover, it made them aware that local decisions on future land use may influence the effects of climate change. Consistent storylines helped stakeholders to visualize a desired future and to see their scope of influence. The transdisciplinary research process allowed local stakeholders to translate the hydrological modelling results into a concrete local CCA strategy.

Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch in Trophic Interactions Among Plants, Insects, and Vertebrates

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne S. Renner ◽  
Constantin M. Zohner
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Trophic Interactions ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Population Variation ◽  
Day Length ◽  
Interacting Species ◽  
Phenological Mismatch ◽  
Mutualistic Interactions ◽  
Negative Impacts

Phenological mismatch results when interacting species change the timing of regularly repeated phases in their life cycles at different rates. We review whether this continuously ongoing phenomenon, also known as trophic asynchrony, is becoming more common under ongoing rapid climate change. In antagonistic trophic interactions, any mismatch will have negative impacts for only one of the species, whereas in mutualistic interactions, both partners are expected to suffer. Trophic mismatch is therefore expected to last for evolutionarily short periods, perhaps only a few seasons, adding to the difficulty of attributing it to climate change, which requires long-term data. So far, the prediction that diverging phenologies linked to climate change will cause mismatch is most clearly met in antagonistic interactions at high latitudes in the Artic. There is limited evidence of phenological mismatch in mutualistic interactions, possibly because of strong selection on mutualists to have co-adapted phenological strategies. The study of individual plasticity, population variation, and the genetic bases for phenological strategies is in its infancy. Recent work on woody plants revealed the large imprint of historic climate change on temperature, chilling, and day-length thresholds used by different species to synchronize their phenophases, which in the Northern Hemisphere has led to biogeographic phenological regions in which long-lived plants have adapted to particular interannual and intermillennial amplitudes of climate change.

scholarly journals “If Equity's In, We're Out”: Scope for Fairness in the Next Global Climate Agreement

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 423-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Pickering ◽  
Steve Vanderheiden ◽  
Seumas Miller
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Critical Question ◽  
Climate Agreements ◽  
Binary Approach ◽  
Feasibility Constraints ◽  
Mitigation Effort ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change

At the United Nations climate change conference in 2011, parties decided to launch the “Durban Platform” to work towards a new long-term climate agreement. The decision was notable for the absence of any reference to “equity,” a prominent principle in all previous major climate agreements. Wealthy countries resisted the inclusion of equity on the grounds that the term had become too closely yoked to developing countries' favored conception of equity. This conception, according to wealthy countries, exempts developing countries from making commitments that are stringent enough for the collective effort needed to avoid dangerous climate change. In circumstances where even mentioning the term equity has become problematic, a critical question is whether the possibility for a fair agreement is being squeezed out of negotiations. To address this question we set out a conceptual framework for normative theorizing about fairness in international negotiations, accompanied by a set of minimal standards of fairness and plausible feasibility constraints for sharing the global climate change mitigation effort. We argue that a fair and feasible agreement may be reached by (1) reforming the current binary approach to differentiating developed and developing country groups, in tandem with (2) introducing a more principled approach to differentiating the mitigation commitments of individual countries. These two priorities may provide the basis for a principled bargain between developed and developing countries that safeguards the opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change without sacrificing widely acceptable conceptions of equity.

scholarly journals Agricultural Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climatic Changes in Malaysia: Review on Paddy Sector

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md. Mahmudul Alam ◽  
Chamhuri Siwar ◽  
Abdul Hamid Jaafar ◽  
Basri Talib ◽  
Khairulmaini Bin Osman Salleh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Productivity ◽  
Soil Condition ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Climatic Variation ◽  
Government Subsidy ◽  
Agricultural Vulnerability ◽  
Pest Outbreaks ◽  
Negative Impacts

Climate change has mixed impacts on agriculture and the impacts are different in terms of areas, periods and crops. The changing factors of climate have been exerting strong negative impacts on Malaysian agriculture, which is apprehended to result in shortages of water and other resources for long term, worsening soil condition, disease and pest outbreaks on crops and livestock, sea-level rise, and so on. Due to climate change, agricultural productivity and profitability is declining. Despite continuous increases of government subsidy, area of paddy plantation is decreasing and the adaption practices are ineffective. As climate change is universal and its existence is indefinite, the farmers need to adapt to and find ways to mitigate the damages of climatic variation in order to sustain agricultural productivity and attain food security for the

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