scholarly journals Education to Enhance Vietnamese Coastal Communities’ Adaptive Capacity to Cope With Climate Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thi Huong Tra Nguyen ◽  
Helen Boon ◽  
David King
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Change Projects ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, particularly in poor coastal communities. While external climate change projects have been conducted in some coastal provinces, including Ha Tinh, there is a lack of local education programs to enhance communities’ awareness and adaptive capacity to cope with climate change. Therefore, a community education program is proposed to help Ha Tinh locals adapt to climate change. The aim of this paper is to present a brief literature review, including: identifying key concepts, overviewing global climate change, analysing climate change and climate change adaptation in Vietnam, as well as theoretical frameworks.

scholarly journals Global Climate Change and Solutions for Urban Sustainability of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

2015 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-31
Author(s):  
Phan Dao ◽  
Nguyễn Thuy Lan Chi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ho Chi Minh City ◽  
Urban Sustainable Development ◽  
Standard Construction ◽  
Near Future ◽  
Mega Cities ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), the largest city in Vietnam, is steadily growing, certainly towards a mega city in the near future. Like other mega cities at the boom stage, it has to face with serious environmental matters insolvable for many years. The situation may be worse under the effects of global climate change, geological subsidence due to non-standard construction and sea level rise. The situation of HCMC can be damaged or even broken by resonant effects of unsolved environmental matters and latent impacts of climate change. This article shows the challenges to the urban sustainable development under the duo effect of urban environmental matters and climate change in Ho Chi Minh City. Opportunities and strategic directions to overcome the challenges are also analyzed and recommended.

scholarly journals THE POTENTIAL HEALTH IMPACT OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-17
Author(s):  
P. TERBLANCE
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
South African ◽  
Stages Of Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Potential Health ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

It is well known that airpollution can affect human health directly and indirectly. The direct effects as a result of inhalation or dermal contact are widely studied and reasonably well characterized. However, great uncertainty still exists about the magnitude and rate of global climate change. The potential adverse impact on man warrants attention even in these early stages of change. This paper summarises information on the potential health impacts of climate change, published in international literature since 1986 with special reference to the South African situation.

scholarly journals The capacity to adapt?: communities in a changing climate, environment, and economy on the northern Andaman coast of Thailand

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Bennett ◽  
Philip Dearden ◽  
Alin Kadfak
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Marine Protected Areas ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Economic Opportunities ◽  
Management Interventions ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The health and productivity of marine ecosystems, habitats, and fisheries are deteriorating on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Because of their high dependence on natural resources and proximity to the ocean, coastal communities are particularly vulnerable to climate-induced changes in the marine environment. These communities must also adapt to the impacts of management interventions and conservation initiatives, including marine protected areas, which have livelihood implications. Further, communities on the Andaman coast are also experiencing a range of new economic opportunities associated in particular with tourism and agriculture. These complex and ongoing changes require integrated assessment of, and deliberate planning to increase, the adaptive capacity of communities so that they may respond to: (1) environmental degradation and fisheries declines through effective management interventions or conservation initiatives, (2) new economic opportunities to reduce dependence on fisheries, and (3) the increasing impacts of climate change. Our results are from a mixed methods study, which used surveys and interviews to examine multiple dimensions of the adaptive capacity of seven island communities near marine protected areas on the Andaman coast of Thailand. Results show that communities had low adaptive capacity with respect to environmental degradation and fisheries declines, and to management and conservation interventions, as well as uneven levels of adaptive capacity to economic opportunities. Though communities and households were experiencing the impacts of climate change, especially storm events, changing seasons and weather patterns, and erosion, they were reacting to these changes with limited knowledge of climate change per se. We recommend interventions, in the form of policies, programs, and actions, at multiple scales for increasing the adaptive capacity of Thailand’s coastal communities to change. The analytical and methodological approach used for examining adaptive capacity could be easily modified and applied to other contexts and locales.

scholarly journals KAPASITAS ADAPTASI KOMUNITAS PESISIR PADA KONDISI RAWAN PANGAN AKIBAT PERUBAHAN IKLIM (KASUS SEBUAH KOMUNITAS NELAYAN DI JAWA BARAT)

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nurmala K. Panjaitan ◽  
Galuh Adriana ◽  
Ratri Virianita ◽  
Nanda Karlita ◽  
Renita Intan Cahyani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Adaptive Capacity ◽  
Sea Water ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Institutional Memory ◽  
Innovative Learning ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

<p>ABSTRACT<br />Climate change provokes various problems on coastal community’s life such as reduction in the quantity and quality of the catch, sea-water flood, storms, tidal waves, and drought. Many impacts of climate change will not lead to the vulnerability of coastal communities when a community has sufficient adaptive capacity. The purpose of this study was to analyze the adaptive capacity of coastal communities to food insecurity as the impacts of climate change. Mix method approach such as survey, in-depth interviews, focus group discussions and observation was applied to collect the data. The unit analysis was community level (n = 100 poor fishery households, beneficiaries of government’s poor rice program). The adaptive capacity of communities to food insecurity is relatively low due to low institutional memory, unable to conduct innovative learning and especially the lack of connectedness with others outside the community. There is no Collective action to cope with food insecurity due to poverty, community’s culture and lack of local leadership.<br />Keywords: Climate change, adaptive capacity, coastal community, food insecurity</p><p>ABSTRAK<br />Perubahan iklim menimbulkan banyak masalah pada kehidupan komunitas pesisir seperti penurunan kualitas dan kuantitas tangkapan, rob, badai, gelombang pasang dan kekeringan. Berbagai dampak perubahan iklim tidak akan menyebabkan kerentanan komunitas pesisir bila komunitas itu mempunya kapasitas adaptasi yang memadai. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisa kapasitas adaptasi komunitas nelayan untuk melihat kesiapan komunitas dalam menghadapi kerawanan pangan akibat perubahan iklim. Pendekatan survei, wawancara mendalam, focus group discussion, dan observasi digunaan untuk mengumpulkan data. Unit analisa adalah pada tingkat masyarakat dengan sumber data 100 rumahtangga nelayan miskin yang merupakan penerima program raskin. Kapasitas adaptasi masyarakat terhadap kerawanan pangan tergolong rendah karena rendahnya institutional memory, tidak mampu melakukan innovative learning dan kurangnya connectedness terutama dengan pihak lain di luar komunitas. Aksi kolektif dari komunitas untuk mengatasi kerawanan pangan tidak ada yang disebabkan oleh kemiskinan,budaya komunitas dan kurang berfungsinya kepemimpinan lokal.<br />Kata kunci: Perubahan iklim, kapasitas adaptasi, pantai komunitas, kerawanan pangan</p>

ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN SYRIA

2013 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 1350002 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLEMENS BREISINGER ◽  
TINGJU ZHU ◽  
PERRIHAN AL RIFFAI ◽  
GERALD NELSON ◽  
RICHARD ROBERTSON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Climate Models ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
National Level ◽  
Economic Modeling ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Global Climate Models ◽  
Climate Change Scenarios ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

There is broad consensus among scientists that climate change is altering weather patterns around the world. However, economists are only beginning to develop comprehensive tools that allow for the quantification of such weather changes on countries' economies and people. This paper presents a modeling suite that links the downscaling of global climate models, crop modeling, global economic modeling, and sub-national-level dynamic computable equilibrium modeling. Important to note is that this approach allows for decomposing the potential global and local economic effects on countries, including various economic sectors and different household groups. We apply this modeling suite to Syria, a relevant case study given the country's location in a region that is consistently projected to be among those hit hardest by climate change. We find that, despite a certain degree of endogenous adaptation, local impacts of climate change (through declining yields) are likely to affect Syria beyond the agricultural sector and farmers and also reduce economy-wide growth and incomes of urban households in the long term. The overall effects of global climate change (through higher food prices) are also negative, but some farmers may reap the benefit of higher prices. Combining local and global climate change scenarios shows welfare losses across all rural and urban household groups, whereas the poorest household groups are the hardest hit.

Municipal policy priorities in three coastal communities in the Northeastern United States recognize effects of global climate change

2019 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 177-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Uiterwyk ◽  
Jacob P. Kritzer ◽  
Allison Novelly ◽  
Sarah Lindley Smith ◽  
Kimberly Starbuck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Northeastern United States ◽  
Municipal Policy

scholarly journals Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Areas Suitable to Grow Some Key Crops in New Jersey, USA

Environments ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Kikombo Ilunga Ngoy ◽  
Daniela Shebitz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Temperature Increase ◽  
Sweet Corn ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

We used the Climate Change and Adaptation Modeler (CCAM), a Terrset software toolset, to project the effects of global climate change on crops in New Jersey. We selected two scenarios—A1FI-MI and B1TME. We found that temperatures will increase by the end of this century compared to 1981–2010 normal temperatures baseline downloaded from PRISM. The temperature increase will vary from 3 to 6 °C depending upon the scenario while the precipitation remains relatively the same. These changes will negatively affect the suitability of many economically valuable crops in New Jersey including blueberry, cranberry, squash, sweet corn and tomato. Many crops that are highly or very suitable will move into marginal or very marginal categories.

scholarly journals Assessment of coastal vulnerability to climate change hazards at the regional scale: the case study of the North Adriatic Sea

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 2347-2368 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Torresan ◽  
A. Critto ◽  
J. Rizzi ◽  
A. Marcomini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Coastal Communities ◽  
Coastal Vulnerability ◽  
The North ◽  
North Adriatic Sea

Abstract. Sea level rise, changes in storms and wave climate as a consequence of global climate change are expected to increase the size and magnitude of flooded and eroding coastal areas, thus having profound impacts on coastal communities and ecosystems. River deltas, beaches, estuaries and lagoons are considered particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects of climate change, which should be studied at the regional/local scale. This paper presents a regional vulnerability assessment (RVA) methodology developed to analyse site-specific spatial information on coastal vulnerability to the envisaged effects of global climate change, and assist coastal communities in operational coastal management and conservation. The main aim of the RVA is to identify key vulnerable receptors (i.e. natural and human ecosystems) in the considered region and localize vulnerable hot spot areas, which could be considered as homogeneous geographic sites for the definition of adaptation strategies. The application of the RVA methodology is based on a heterogeneous subset of bio-geophysical and socio-economic vulnerability indicators (e.g. coastal topography, geomorphology, presence and distribution of vegetation cover, location of artificial protection), which are a measure of the potential harm from a range of climate-related impacts (e.g. sea level rise inundation, storm surge flooding, coastal erosion). Based on a system of numerical weights and scores, the RVA provides relative vulnerability maps that allow to prioritize more vulnerable areas and targets of different climate-related impacts in the examined region and to support the identification of suitable areas for human settlements, infrastructures and economic activities, providing a basis for coastal zoning and land use planning. The implementation, performance and results of the methodology for the coastal area of the North Adriatic Sea (Italy) are fully described in the paper.

scholarly journals Broadcast Meteorologists’ Views on Climate Change: A State-of-the-Community Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Perkins ◽  
Kristin Timm ◽  
Teresa Myers ◽  
Edward Maibach
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The United States ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractBroadcast meteorologists—highly skilled professionals who work at the intersection between climate scientists and the public—have considerable opportunity to educate their viewers about the local impacts of global climate change. Prior research has shown that, within the broadcast meteorology community, views of climate change have evolved rapidly over the past decade. Here, using data from three census surveys of U.S. broadcast meteorologists conducted annually between 2015 and 2017, is a comprehensive analysis of broadcast meteorologists’ views about climate change. Specifically, this research describes weathercasters’ beliefs about climate change and certainty in those beliefs, perceived causes of climate change, perceived scientific consensus and interest in learning more about climate change, belief that climate change is occurring (and the certainty of that belief), belief that climate change is human caused, perceptions of any local impacts of climate change, and perceptions of the solvability of climate change. Today’s weathercaster community appears to be sharing the same viewpoints and outlooks as most climate scientists—in particular, that climate change is already affecting the United States and that present-day trends are largely a result of human activity.

scholarly journals Respostas das plantas ao incremento atmosférico de dióxido de carbono e da temperatura (Plants responses to increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide and temperature)

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Martinez ◽  
Eduardo Augusto Dias de Oliveira ◽  
Tathyana Rachel Palo Mello ◽  
Ana Lilia Alzate-Marin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Pollen Viability ◽  
Growth Yield ◽  
Co2 Concentration ◽  
Plant Productivity ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Existem fortes evidencias da ocorrência de mudanças climáticas globais por causa do aumento de gases de efeito estufa, as quais provavelmente serão cada vez mais severas no futuro. Para enfrentar esse problema, as plantas, serão confrontadas com opções limitadas para evitar a perda de seu hábitat ou extinção: adaptar-se, migrar ou morrer. Em geral, o aumento da concentração atmosférica do CO2 atuando como “fertilizante” para a fotossíntese poderia aumentar o crescimento e a produção de biomassa das plantas. No entanto, o aumento da temperatura global poderia afetar negativamente a fisiologia e a produtividade vegetal, bem como provocar alterações nos padrões de precipitação com impactos graves sobre a produção agrícola e outros serviços ecossistêmicos. Para uma melhor estimativa dos impactos das mudanças climáticas na agricultura, pecuária, ecossistemas de florestas e pastagens serão necessários grandes avanços científicos. No âmbito da pesquisa, será necessária e prioritária a elucidação das interações entre o elevado CO2, temperatura, fertilidade do solo, disponibilidade hídrica e o efeito de poluentes como o ozônio sobre o crescimento, o rendimento e a produtividade das plantas. Efeitos das mudanças climáticas sobre o florescimento, viabilidade do pólen, polinizadores e produção de grãos também precisam ser esclarecidos. Qualquer avanço do melhoramento genético das plantas e uso da biodiversidade visando reduzir a sensibilidade à elevada temperatura ou melhorar a resposta ao CO2 será de grande utilidade. There is strong evidence that global climate change because of increase in the greenhouse gases are already occurring and will become increasingly severe. To address this problem, the plants will be faced with limited options to avoid losing their habitat or extinction: adapt, migrate or die. In general, the increase in atmospheric CO2 concentration acting as "fertilizer" for photosynthesis could increase growth and biomass production of the plants. However, the increase in global temperature could adversely affect the physiology and plant productivity and cause changes in rainfall patterns with serious impacts on agricultural production and other ecosystem services. A better estimate of the impacts of climate change on agricultural, forest and pasture ecosystems will require urgent scientific advances. It will be necessary to prioritize the elucidation of interactions between elevated CO2, temperature, soil fertility, water availability and the effect of pollutants such as ozone on growth, yield, and productivity of plants. Effects of climate change on flowering, pollen viability, pollinators and yield will need to be elucidated. Any advancement of plant breeding and use of biodiversity for reducing the sensitivity to high temperature and improve the response to CO2 will be very useful. Keywords: global climate change, warming, biodiversity, agriculture, plant productivity.

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