scholarly journals An anthropological perspective on the climate change and violence relationship

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Jen Shaffer
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climatic Changes ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Resource Uncertainty ◽  
Individual Choices

Purpose of Review: This review explores the complex climate change-violence relationship through an anthropological lens, focusing on the interacting social and environmental conditions that constrain individual choices for violence. Evidence and methods used by anthropologists to identify violent events, as well as anthropological theories regarding why individuals choose violence, are discussed. A general social-environmental model is presented and explored through four case studies, two archaeological and two ethnographic.Recent Findings: Recent research with historic and contemporary case studies suggests that resource uncertainty interacts with a complex array of pre-existing social and environmental conditions, including environmental degradation, poor governance, and social inequality, to promote violent responses both before and following climatic changes. Individuals may choose to avoid violence where supporting, cooperative mechanisms exist.Summary: Given that individuals make choices to respond violently or not based on their perceptions of these complex, interacting social and environmental conditions, violence in response to global climate change is not inevitable.

Hybrid energy module for experiments and studies in remote locations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Misha Krassovski ◽  
Jeffery Riggs ◽  
Chris Tavino ◽  
Stan Wullschleger ◽  
Susan Heinz
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
Power Equipment ◽  
Hybrid Energy ◽  
Remote Areas ◽  
Remote Locations ◽  
The World

<p>Increased concerns about regional and global climate change in recent decades has led to a significant expansion of monitoring, observational, and experimental sites in remote areas of the world. During this same time, advances in technology and availability of low-power equipment, have allowed increasingly sophisticated measurements with an increasingly wide variety of instruments, sensors, and sensor networks. However, the deployment and use of these technologies in remote locations is restricted not only by harsh environmental conditions, but by the availability of electrical power and communication options. With this presentation we would like to share our experience of designing and building hybrid energy (solar and wind) module that can be used to provide power and communication capabilities for remote installations.</p>

Climate Change and Risk of Arboviral Diseases in the State of Rio De Janeiro (Brazil)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Carlos da Silva Oscar Júnior ◽  
Francisco de Assis Mendonça
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The State ◽  
Spatial Expansion ◽  
Urbanization Process ◽  
Arboviral Diseases ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Arboviral diseases are a theme of high interest in the field of public and collective health worldwide. Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya, in particular, have shown significant expansion in terms of morbidity and mortality in different portions of the ecumene. These diseases are of great interest in geographic studies due to the characteristics of their vector (Aedes aegypti), adapted to the environmental and unequal context of the urbanization process. Given this background, this study assesses the relationship between global climate change and the risk of arboviral diseases for the state of Rio de Janeiro. To this end, the characteristics of future climate susceptibility to vector proliferation in the scenarios RCP 4.5 and 8.5 (2011-2040 and 2041-2070) were assessed using two models: Eta HadGEM2-ES and Eta MIROC5, as well as the vulnerability conditions that favor the spread of arboviruses. The results indicate that the tendency of thermal and hygrometric elevation, in association with vulnerability, may have repercussions on the intensification and spatial expansion of the risk of arboviral diseases in the state of Rio de Janeiro, since there is a spatial and temporal expansion of the optimal environmental conditions for the development of the vector.

10. Environmentalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorron Otter
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Social Ecology ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Classical Liberalism ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the extent to which environmentalism has emerged as a viable ideology in its own right. It begins by charting the origins of the rise of the environment as an issue in relation to global and national political systems as well as the point at which it might be possible to identify the emergence of a distinct Green agenda. It then analyses the range of environmental thinking and the embedded critique, ideal, and programme that defines Green ideology, with particular emphasis on classical liberalism and neo-liberalism, Green conservatism, eco-socialism, social ecology, and eco-feminism. It also explores the impact that Green policies have had in shaping the policy agenda and concludes by looking at the main challenges that face the consolidation of Green thinking and action. To illustrate these various issues, the chapter presents case studies, one of which relates to global climate change.

scholarly journals Nature rewires in a changing world

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J Bartley ◽  
Kevin S McCann ◽  
Carling Bieg ◽  
Kévin Cazelles ◽  
Monica Granados ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Webs ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Early Warning ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Interaction Strength ◽  
Behavioral Responses ◽  
Warning Signals ◽  
Generalist Species

Climate change is asymmetrically altering environmental conditions in space, from local to global scales, creating novel heterogeneity. Here, we argue that this novel heterogeneity will drive mobile generalist consumer species to rapidly respond through their behavior in ways that broadly and predictably reorganize—or rewire—food webs. We use existing theory and data from diverse ecosystems to show that the rapid behavioral responses of generalists to climate change rewire food webs in two critical ways. Firstly, mobile generalist species are redistributing into systems where they were previously absent and foraging on new prey, resulting in topological rewiring—a change in the patterning of food webs due to the addition or loss of connections. Secondly, mobile generalist species, which navigate between habitats and ecosystems to forage, will shift their relative use of differentially altered habitats and ecosystems, causing interaction strength rewiring—changes rerouting energy and carbon flows through existing food web connections that alter the food web’s interaction strengths. We then show that many species with shared traits can exhibit unified aggregate behavioral responses to climate change, which may allow us to understand the rewiring of whole food webs. We end by arguing that generalists’ responses present a powerful and underutilized approach to understand and predict the consequences of climate change and may serve as much-needed early warning signals for monitoring the looming impacts of global climate change on entire ecosystems.

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