scholarly journals Tourism and Climate Change: Interrelationships and Implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schott ◽  
Andy Reisinger ◽  
Taciano Milfont
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter contextualizes the interrelationships between tourism and climate change and thus provides an introduction to this volume. It commences with a brief but comprehensive overview of the key issues identified by climate change research, including an update since the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as a brief discussion of the latest rounds of climate change negotiations. The pursuing discussion is informed by these points and explores climate change’s indirect and induced impacts on tourism and possible ramifications. Both of these parts highlight behavioral change as a critical factor to both adaptation and mitigation thus motivating the psychological contribution in an effort to shed light on the obstacles to behavioral change. In the concluding section, the chapter synthesizes the discussion grounded in multiple disciplines into a set of research themes that the volume subsequently begins to address

scholarly journals Tourism and Climate Change: Interrelationships and Implications

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Schott ◽  
Andy Reisinger ◽  
Taciano Milfont
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Shed Light

This chapter contextualizes the interrelationships between tourism and climate change and thus provides an introduction to this volume. It commences with a brief but comprehensive overview of the key issues identified by climate change research, including an update since the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as well as a brief discussion of the latest rounds of climate change negotiations. The pursuing discussion is informed by these points and explores climate change’s indirect and induced impacts on tourism and possible ramifications. Both of these parts highlight behavioral change as a critical factor to both adaptation and mitigation thus motivating the psychological contribution in an effort to shed light on the obstacles to behavioral change. In the concluding section, the chapter synthesizes the discussion grounded in multiple disciplines into a set of research themes that the volume subsequently begins to address

Systematic exploration of scenario spaces

foresight ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henrik Carlsen ◽  
E. Anders Eriksson ◽  
Karl Henrik Dreborg ◽  
Bengt Johansson ◽  
Örjan Bodin
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Generating Sets ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Systematic Exploration ◽  
Emissions Scenarios ◽  
Business As Usual

Purpose – Scenarios have become a vital methodological approach in business as well as in public policy. When scenarios are used to guide analysis and decision-making, the aim is typically robustness and in this context we argue that two main problems at scenario set level is conservatism, i.e. all scenarios are close to a perceived business-as-usual trajectory and lack of balance in the sense of arbitrarily mixing some conservative and some extreme scenarios. The purpose of this paper is to address these shortcomings by proposing a methodology for generating sets of scenarios which are in a mathematical sense maximally diverse. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper, we develop a systematic methodology, Scenario Diversity Analysis (SDA), which addresses the problems of broad span vs conservatism and imbalance. From a given set of variables with associated states, SDA generates scenario sets where the scenarios are in a quantifiable sense maximally different and therefore best span the whole set of feasible scenarios. Findings – The usefulness of the methodology is exemplified by applying it to sets of storylines of the emissions scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. This ex-post analysis shows that the storylines were not maximally diverse and given the challenges ahead with regard to emissions reduction and adaptation planning, we argue that it is important to strive for diversity when developing scenario sets for climate change research. Originality/value – The proposed methodology adds significant novel features to the field of systematic scenario generation, especially with regard to scenario diversity. The methodology also enables the combination of systematics with the distinct future logics of good intuitive logics scenarios.

scholarly journals The Silent Killer: Consequences of Climate Change and How to Survive Past the Year 2050

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3757
Author(s):  
Anna Laura Huckelba ◽  
Paul A. M. Van Lange
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Behavioral Change ◽  
Social Dilemma ◽  
Psychological Perspective ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
The World

There is strong scientific consensus that the climate is drastically changing due to increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and that these changes are largely due to human behavior. Scientific estimates posit that by 2050, we will begin to experience some of the most damaging consequences of climate change, which will only worsen as the world becomes more populated and resources become scarcer. Considerable progress has been made to explore technological solutions, yet useful insights from a psychological perspective are still lacking. Understanding whether and how individuals and groups cope with environmental dilemmas is the first step to combatting climate change. The key challenge is how can we reduce a tendency to inaction and to understand the psychological obstacles for behavioral change that reduce climate change. We provide a social dilemma analysis of climate change, emphasizing three important ingredients: people need to recognize their own impact on the climate, there is conflict between self-interest and collective interests, and there is a temporal dilemma involving a conflict between short-term and longer-term interest. Acknowledging these features, we provide a comprehensive overview of psychological mechanisms that support inaction, and close by discussing potential solutions. In particular, we offer recommendations at the level of individuals, communities, and governments.

Carbon Trading – A Profitable CSR Initiative for Reducing Economic Asymmetries among Nations

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shruti Mitra ◽  
Amit Verma
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
International Media ◽  
Ipcc Report ◽  
Climate Treaty ◽  
The Moment

Another international climate change summit, this time in the Qatari city of Doha, has concluded without a binding agreement reached on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions. The failure of 18th Conference of the Parties (COP18) was anticipated beforehand by everyone involved, and met with widespread indifference on the part of international media. Since, the debacle at Copenhagen summit in December 2009—which broke up without agreement on a post-Kyoto climate treaty amid bitter conflicts between the major powers — annual UN-sponsored climate summits have been restricted to negotiating various secondary issues, unrelated to the question of binding emissions targets. Heads of government have not gathered to discuss the issue in past three years, leaving junior ministers and diplomats to head negotiating teams at the subsequent summits at Cancun, Durban, and Doha. The inability of world leaders to even meet to discuss the climate change crisis, represents a devastating indictment of capitalist system. Overwhelming scientific evidence points to the serious threat posed to world's population by excessive emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. The forecasts made in first UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, in 1990, have proven accurate. “We've sat back and watched the two decades unfold and warming has progressed at a rate consistent with those projections,” Matt England, of the University of New South Wales' Climate Change Research Centre, told Australia's ABC Radio. “The analysis is very clear that, IPCC projections are coming true. And at the moment, we are tracking at high end in terms of our emissions, and so all of the projections that we look to at the moment are those high end forecasts.” However, the researchers believe that the conclusions will have a broader implication, that will surely help developing nations in not only reaching, the much sought economic integration among them and reducing Economic Asymmetries with developed nations, but also in reducing the emission levels to save our planet. So, if a revolution has to be there in International trade and globalization, be it the Green Way!

scholarly journals Geobibliography and Bibliometric Networks of Polar Tourism and Climate Change Research

Atmosphere ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 498 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Demiroglu ◽  
C. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Future Research ◽  
High Mountain ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Mountain Areas ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Systematic Identification

In late 2019, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their much-awaited Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). High mountain areas, polar regions, low-lying islands and coastal areas, and ocean and marine ecosystems, were separately dealt by experts to reveal the impacts of climate change on these regions, as well as the responses of the natural and human systems inhabiting or related to these regions. The tourism sector was found, among the main systems, influenced by climate change in the oceanic and cryospheric environments. In this study, we deepen the understanding of tourism and climate interrelationships in the polar regions. In doing so, we step outside the climate resilience of polar tourism paradigm and systematically assess the literature in terms of its gaps relating to an extended framework where the impacts of tourism on climate through a combined and rebound effects lens are in question as well. Following a systematic identification and screening on two major bibliometric databases, a final selection of 93 studies, spanning the 2004–2019 period, are visualized in terms of their thematic and co-authorship networks and a study area based geobibliography, coupled with an emerging hot spots analysis, to help identify gaps for future research.

scholarly journals The evolving and increasing need for climate change research on the oceans

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 1267-1271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Barange ◽  
Jacquelynne King ◽  
Luis Valdés ◽  
Alexander Turra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
The North ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Poster Presentations ◽  
The North Pacific

Abstract The 3rd International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans was held in Santos, Brazil, in March 2015, convened by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC), and organized locally by the Oceanographic Institute, University of Sao Paulo (IO-USP). The symposium was designed to do two things. First, to get updates on new scientific developments that would address recognized uncertainties that remained from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report and to contribute to building bridges between research in the natural and social sciences in respect to the human dimensions of climate change, with a focus on coastal communities, management objectives, governance and adaptation measures. The choice of the venue in Santos, Brazil, was aimed to stimulate and widen this thematic discussion in Latin America and southern Atlantic regions, where there still are important knowledge gaps and scientific, politic and societal challenges to be overcome. The meeting was attended by 280 participants from 38 countries, contributing 336 oral and poster presentations. This paper summarizes the main outcomes of the symposium and introduces a number of papers submitted to this special issue.

scholarly journals Most plausible 2005-2040 emissions scenarios project less than 2.5 degrees C of warming by 2100

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Pielke ◽  
Matthew G. Burgess ◽  
Justin Ritchie
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Co2 Emissions ◽  
Research Policy ◽  
International Energy Agency ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Energy Agency ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
Emissions Scenarios ◽  
Policy And Planning

Emissions scenarios are central to climate change research, policy, and planning. Recent studies question plausibility of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) high-emissions scenarios, while others cast doubt on the achievability of a 1.5-degrees-C-by-2100 target. Here, we identify the subsets of scenarios of the IPCC 5th (AR5) and forthcoming 6th (AR6) Assessment Reports that project 2005-2040 fossil-fuel CO2 emissions growth rates most consistently with observations from 2005-2020 and International Energy Agency (IEA) projections to 2040. 71% of these scenarios project between 2 degrees C and 3 degrees C of warming by 2100, with a median of 2.2 degrees C. Our results suggest the world may be better positioned with respect to CO2 emissions than often assumed, but is off track from 1.5 degrees C targets.

The Role of Science in Climate Change Lawmaking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Meyer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Scientific Organization ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Scientific Uncertainty ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
The Public ◽  
International Climate ◽  
International Climate Change

This chapter examines how international legal institutions foster cooperation in the presence of scientific uncertainty, especially in the area of international climate change law. It analyses the theory of epistemic institutions and applies it to the primary international scientific organization working on climate change issues, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC’s assessment reports play a major role in setting the terms of the public debate about climate change negotiations that takes place within the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Although independent of the UNFCCC, the IPCC’s work product is thus a key input into the UNFCCC’s efforts to negotiate international climate change rules. However, the IPCC’s credibility has been called into question due to a relative lack of participation by scientists from developing countries in the assessment process.

scholarly journals Dahe Qin: time is limited to curb global warming

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 144-147
Author(s):  
Ling Wang ◽  
Zhonghe Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Emission Scenario ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
High Carbon ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Research ◽  
Chinese Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Ipcc Working Group ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract The landmark international accord reached in the UN climate meeting in Paris last December stipulates the goal of limiting global warming to less than 2°C by 2100. This goal has a solid scientific basis, defined after intensive global research by scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) through modeling future landscapes under different global warming scenarios, showing that 2°C of global warming is the upper limit for maintaining a sustainable Earth. Dahe Qin, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group, has participated in climate change research for more than two decades, and knows very well the consequences of 2°C warming. In a recent interview with NSR, Qin says quite clearly, ‘Since time is limited for us to halt global warming, to achieve the rosy 2°C target, we must decrease human-produced green-house gas emissions by 40%–70% by 2050, as compared to levels from 2010, and zero (additional) emissions by 2100. This goal is unlikely to be achieved in the high-carbon emission scenario’. Currently, Qin is busy preparing the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6) of IPCC with other scientists to be released in 2022. He indicates that the AR6 report will propose ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs)’ that emphasize the local effects of global warming, and bring out constructive and specific recommendations for each area and country to deal with the threat and to maintain sustainable development.

scholarly journals A Large-Scale Bibliometric Analysis of Global Climate Change Research Between 2001 and 2018

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui-Zhen Fu ◽  
Ludo Waltman
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Climate Change Research

Abstract Global climate change is attracting widespread scientific, political, and public attention owing to the involvement of international initiatives such as the Paris Agreement and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. We present a large-scale bibliometric analysis based on approximately 120,000 climate change publications between 2001 and 2018 to examine how climate change is studied in scientific research. Our analysis provides an overview of scientific knowledge, shifts of research hotspots, global geographical distribution of research, and focus of individual countries. In our analysis, we identify five key fields in climate change research: physical sciences, paleoclimatology, climate-change ecology, climate technology, and climate policy. We draw the following key conclusions: (1) Over the investigated time period, the focus of climate change research has shifted from understanding the climate system toward climate technologies and policies, such as efficient energy use and legislation. (2) There is an imbalance in scientific production between developed and developing countries. (3) Geography, national demands, and national strategies have been important drivers that influence the research interests and concerns of researchers in different countries. Our study can be used by researchers and policy makers to reflect on the directions in which climate change research is developing and discuss priorities for future research.

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