Developing a ranking of regions by degree climate security

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
V. S. Vasiltsov ◽  
N. N. Yashalova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Climate Policy ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
The World ◽  
Regions Of Russia

A study of the essence of the concept “climate security” is conducted and key directions of its impact on the economic system are determined. The increasing influence of anthropogenic climate change on socio-economic processes in the regions of Russia, in the country and the world as a whole in the development and implementation of the country's climate policy is analyzed. The article substantiates the need to develop the basics of climate security at the regional level, where the regions will be ranked by the level of climate threat.

Climate change and supply-chain vulnerability

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valeria Andreoni ◽  
Apollonia Miola
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Supply Chain ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World

Purpose – The increasing complexity of the present economic system and the strong interdependencies existing between production activities taking place in different world areas make modern societies vulnerable to crisis. The global supply chain is a paradigmatic example of economic structures on which the impacts of unexpected events propagate rapidly through the system. Climate change, which affects societies all over the world, is one of the most important factors influencing the efficiency of the present economic networks. During the last decades a large set of studies have been oriented to investigate the direct impacts generated on specific geographical areas or productions. However, a smaller number of analyses have been oriented to quantify the cascading and indirect economic effects generated all over the world. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – The main objective of this paper is to provide an overview of the main studies, methodologies and databases used to investigate the climate vulnerability of the global supply chain. Findings – The great complexity of the global economic system, coupled with methodological and data gaps, makes it difficult to estimate the domino effects of unexpected events. A clear understanding of the possible consequences generated all over the world is, however, a fundamental step to build socio-economic resilience and to plan effective adaptation strategies. Originality/value – The information provided in this paper can be useful to support further studies, to build consistent quantification methodologies and to fill the possible data gap.

Climate science and YouTube: deniers, memes, and Trojan horses

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Educational Video ◽  
Video Content ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World

<p>YouTube is the world's second largest search engine, and serves as a primary source of entertainment for billions of people around the world. Yet while science communication on the website is more popular than ever, discussion of climate science is dominated by - largely scientifically untrained - individuals who are skeptical of the overwhelming scientific consensus that anthropogenic climate change is real. Over the past ten years I have built up an extensive audience communicating science - and climate science in particular - on YouTube, attempting to place credible science in the forefront of the discussion. In this talk I will discuss my approach to making content for the website, dissect successful and less successful projects, review feedback from my audience, and break down my process of converting research into entertaining, educational video content.</p>

Assessing the impacts of climate change and socio-economic changes on flow and phosphorus flux in the Ganga river system

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 1098-1110 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jin ◽  
P. G. Whitehead ◽  
S. Sarkar ◽  
R. Sinha ◽  
M. N. Futter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
River System ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Ganga River ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
System P ◽  
Phosphorus Flux ◽  
The World ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Anthropogenic climate change has impacted and will continue to impact the natural environment and people around the world.

scholarly journals Green Growth Is Trusted To Fix Climate Change

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 01-08
Author(s):  
Robert Skopec
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Economic System ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Green Growth ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
Main Strategy

'Greening' our current economic system can only take us so far. GTS/Shutterstock You may have missed it, but a recent report declared that the main strategy of world leaders for tackling climate change won’t work. It’s called green growth, and it’s favoured by some of the largest and most influential organisations in the world, including the United Nations and the World Bank.

scholarly journals Physiological Responses of Coral Reef Species to Emerging Threats of Anthropogenic Climate Change

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 116-127
Author(s):  
Rabia Mahmood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Conservation Practices ◽  
Current Conservation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

Anthropogenic climate change is a threat to countless species and ecosystems around the world, including the coral reefs. Coral Reefs provide habitat to hundreds of thousands of species and play a big role in maintaining biological diversity. Unfortunately, around 50-70% of all coral reefs are under direct threat from human activities such as deforestation and overfishing. Major threats to the survival of coral reefs include increasing sea surface temperatures and ocean acidification, as they lead to bleaching and reduction in coral calcification. Due to the rapidly changing climate, conservation efforts should be aimed at protecting species that can tolerate a wide range of temperatures and buffer pH changes. This paper discusses recent research on tolerance and persistence of various species that make up the coral reefs and how this information can be integrated into current conservation practices to better protect the coral reefs.

Polar bears and ice: cultural connotations of Arctic environments that contradict the science of climate change

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 282-295 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Westerstahl Stenport ◽  
Richard S Vachula
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Arctic Region ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Cultural Perceptions ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
The Arctic Region

In spite of overwhelming agreement between scientists and scientific agencies around the world that anthropogenic climate change is currently occurring, many American citizens and politicians alike continue to doubt its validity. In this article, we examine 21st-century media reporting and 20th-century cinematic examples that provide possible reasons for why this is the case, especially foregrounding Western cultural perceptions and connotations of the Arctic region, which have constructed an intellectual framework that resists scientific findings of anthropogenic forcing of climate change.

Urbanization

2018 ◽  
pp. 512-528
Author(s):  
Peter Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
World City ◽  
Corporate Globalization ◽  
World City Network ◽  
The World ◽  
City Network ◽  
And Shifts

This chapter locates and integrates contemporary rampant urbanization with two other macro features of our times, intensive corporate globalization and anthropogenic climate change. Corporate globalization is derived as the latest of three global economic integrations. Each globalization has been characterized by urbanizations previously unparalleled in scale but that have been underestimated in importance. In the contemporary case, the world city network is described as the edifice of corporate globalization. This is described in terms of both the top 20 leading cities and shifts since 2000. A mixture of stability and change is found with the most important cities, notably London and New York, remaining dominant while a West–East shift has occurred, especially featuring Chinese cities. A broader vista is presented as planetary urbanization in which beyond the world city network all planetary spaces are shown to be changed by contemporary urbanization. This is extended historically to provide a long-term approach to anthropogenic climate change indicting urban demand. The conclusion is that urbanization, globalization, and climate should be understood in unison.

scholarly journals Containing climate change: The new governmental strategies of catastrophic environments

2020 ◽  
pp. 251484862090238
Author(s):  
Nicholas Beuret
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Choice ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Dangerous Climate Change

The only existing plans to arrest dangerous climate change depend on either yet to be invented technologies to keep us below 2°C or on crashing the world economy for decades to come. The political choice appears to be between doing what is scientifically necessary or what is politically realistic; between shifting to an entirely different kind of global socio-economic system or suffering catastrophe. We are thus in a moment of governmental impasse, caught between old and still-emerging political rationalities. Working through the liminal governmental role of environmental non-governmental organisations, this paper explores the shift from governmental regimes centred on biopower to ones that work through the register of geopower, from governing life to governing the conditions of life. Confronted with climate change as an irresolvable problem, what we find emerging are techniques that aim to contain the worst effects of climate change without fundamentally transforming the global economy.

scholarly journals Giving Absurdity Form: The Place of Contemporary Art in the Environmental Crisis

Arts ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Anne Elizabeth Douglas
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Anthropogenic Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Illusion Of Control ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World

Absurdity in art creates bizarre juxtapositions that expose, and question conflicted, even dangerous, aspects of life which have become normalized. Absurd art appears in troubled times, subverting moments of extreme contradiction in which it appears impossible to think differently. For example, Dada (1917–1923) used nonsense to reflect the nonsensical brutality of WW1. The power to unsettle in this form of art rests in disrupting the world of the viewer and positioning them as interlocutors in a new framing. Absurdity in art reveals the absurdity that is inherent in life and its institutions, breaking the illusion of control. It can help us to comprehend the ‘incomprehensible’ in other species and spheres of life. In the challenge of anthropogenic climate change, how might the absurd capture the strangeness of current times in which a gap is widening between the earth we live ‘in’ and the earth we live ‘from’? This article explores qualities of the absurd in art as a possible way in which to grasp and reimagine ourselves beyond the anthropocentric, focusing on the work of the artists John Newling (b. 1952, UK) and Helen Mayer (1927–2018, US) and Newton Harrison (b. 1932, US), known as ‘The Harrisons’.

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