scholarly journals Global and Local Discourses on Climate Change: A Perspective from the Concept of Embeddedness

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 143-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jailab Kumar Rai
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
Local Discourses ◽  
Global And Local

Climate change has been becoming a major order of business of all including researchers and academics. This is known that global, national and local organizations, institutions and even the individuals are partaking into the issues with their own perspectives and skills of negotiations. Despite the series of international efforts and attempts, there are also a series of national concerns, efforts and attempts in combating against the effects of global climate change. This paper is an attempt to draw on the overview of contexts and concerns of international communities for combating global climate change and its discursive influence in national policy discourses. Moreover, the paper attempts to assess the local socio-cultural discourses and dynamics of climate change in relation to global and national discourses. Finally the paper highlights on how global and local climate change knowledge networks and epistemic communities either from political processes or the socio-economic fabrics are interrelated and determinant to each other. Keywords: climate change; discourses; embeddeness; dynamics; global; local DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v4i0.4518 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.4 2010 pp.143-180

scholarly journals SI: Survivability under Overheating: The Impact of Regional and Global Climate Change on the Vulnerable and Low-Income Population

Climate ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 122
Author(s):  
Afroditi Synnefa ◽  
Shamila Haddad ◽  
Priyadarsini Rajagopalan ◽  
Mattheos Santamouris
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Low Income Population ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
The Impact

The present special issue discusses three significant challenges of the built environment, namely regional and global climate change, vulnerability, and survivability under the changing climate. Synergies between local climate change, energy consumption of buildings and energy poverty, and health risks highlight the necessity to develop mitigation strategies to counterbalance overheating impacts. The studies presented here assess the underlying issues related to urban overheating. Further, the impacts of temperature extremes on the low-income population and increased morbidity and mortality have been discussed. The increasing intensity, duration, and frequency of heatwaves due to human-caused climate change is shown to affect underserved populations. Thus, housing policies on resident exposure to intra-urban heat have been assessed. Finally, opportunities to mitigate urban overheating have been proposed and discussed.

scholarly journals Comparison of the Impact of Global Climate Changes and Urbanization on Summertime Future Climate in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area

2012 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1441-1454 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sachiho A. Adachi ◽  
Fujio Kimura ◽  
Hiroyuki Kusaka ◽  
Tomoshige Inoue ◽  
Hiroaki Ueda
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Temperature Increase ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Tokyo Metropolitan Area ◽  
Global Climate Changes ◽  
The Impact

AbstractIn this study, the impact of global climate change and anticipated urbanization over the next 70 years is estimated with regard to the summertime local climate in the Tokyo metropolitan area (TMA), whose population is already near its peak now. First, five climate projections for the 2070s calculated with the aid of general circulation models (GCMs) are used for dynamical downscaling experiments to evaluate the impact of global climate changes using a regional climate model. Second, the sensitivity of future urbanization until the 2070s is examined assuming a simple developing urban scenario for the TMA. These two sensitivity analyses indicate that the increase in the surface air temperature from the 1990s to the 2070s is about 2.0°C as a result of global climate changes under the A1B scenario in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES) and about 0.5°C as a result of urbanization. Considering the current urban heat island intensity (UHII) of 1.0°C, the possible UHII in the future reaches an average of 1.5°C in the TMA. This means that the mitigation of the UHII should be one of the ways to adapt to a local temperature increase caused by changes in the future global climate. In addition, the estimation of temperature increase due to global climate change has an uncertainty of about 2.0°C depending on the GCM projection, suggesting that the local climate should be projected on the basis of multiple GCM projections.

Wine, Place, and Identity in a Changing Climate

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pincus
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Wine Industry ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Changing Climate ◽  
Legal Structure ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Place And Identity

The traditional connections between wine and location reflect local climate. Climate change threatens these connections, and vintners have a wide range of responses to this impending problem. This article explores the source of the associations between wines and locales, and outlines the causes for global climate change. Three wine makers describe how they might adapt to a changed climate. Their responses run the gamut from adaptation in the vineyard aimed at maintaining current styles, to radical reinvention of the societal and legal structure of the local wine industry.

scholarly journals CONSERVATION AND STUDY OF GRAPEVINEGENETIC RESOURCES ON THE COLLECTION IN THE LOWER DON REGION IN 2020

Russian vine ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
L.G. Naumova ◽  
◽  
V.A. Ganich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Gene Pool ◽  
Technological Properties ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Rostov Region ◽  
Local Climate Change ◽  
Grape Varieties ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Growing Region

The article presents the results of work on conservation and study of grapevine genetic resources at the Don ampelographic collec-tion named afterYa.I.Potapenko (Novocher-kassk, Rostov region) in 2020. In the context of global and local climate change, the most relevant direction in the development of modern viticulture is the improvement of the grape assortment by introducing varieties that are resistant to adverse environmental factors and more fully realize their productivity po-tential in a particular growing region. The purpose of the research is to preserve (with annual replenishment) and study the gene pool of grapes of various ecological and geo-graphical origin in the collection. The distri-bution of varieties by ripening terms, produc-tivity, uvological indicators has been carried out. 53 varieties of grapes were transferred for micro-winemaking, of which 23 are na-tive Don varieties. In 2020, the collection's gene pool was replenished with 5 grape varie-ties (Baikonur, Galahad, Meskhei,Novyj Po-darok Zaporozhyu, Kishmish Novocher-kassky); to preserve the gene pool, replanting and repairs were carried out (by the method of green inoculation in place). The varieties - Tsimlyanskiy Sergienko and Bessergenevskiy No. 7 were identified as valuable genotypes with high technological properties for high-quality winemaking; the database was sup-plemented with ampelographic descriptions of 50 grape varieties growing on the collec-tion.

scholarly journals Mapping the increased minimum mortality temperatures in the context of global climate change

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Qian Yin ◽  
Jinfeng Wang ◽  
Zhoupeng Ren ◽  
Jie Li ◽  
Yuming Guo
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Limited Evidence ◽  
Important Indicator ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
Human Adaptability ◽  
Minimum Mortality Temperature ◽  
First Time

Abstract Minimum mortality temperature (MMT) is an important indicator to assess the temperature–mortality relationship. It reflects human adaptability to local climate. The existing MMT estimates were usually based on case studies in data rich regions, and limited evidence about MMT was available at a global scale. It is still unclear what the most significant driver of MMT is and how MMT will change under global climate change. Here, by analysing MMTs in 420 locations covering six continents (Antarctica was excluded) in the world, we found that although the MMT changes geographically, it is very close to the local most frequent temperature (MFT) in the same period. The association between MFT and MMT is not changed when we adjust for latitude and study year. Based on the MFT~MMT association, we estimate and map the global distribution of MMTs in the present (2010s) and the future (2050s) for the first time.

scholarly journals Study of Climate Change Impact to Local Rainfall Distribution in Lampung Provinces

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tumiar Katarina Manik ◽  
Bustomi Rosadi ◽  
Eva Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
El Niño ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Seasonal Pattern ◽  
Rainfall Distribution ◽  
Local Climate ◽  
The Impact

Global warming which leads to climate change has potential affect to Indonesia agriculture activities and production. Analyzing rainfall pattern and distribution is important to investigate the impact of global climate change to local climate. This study using rainfall data from 1976-2010 from both lowland and upland area of Lampung Province. The results show that rainfall tends to decrease since the 1990s which related to the years with El Nino event. Monsoonal pattern- having rain and dry season- still excist in Lampung; however, since most rain fell below the average, it could not meet crops water need. Farmers conclude that dry seasons were longer and seasonal pattern has been changed. Global climate change might affect Lampung rainfall distribution through changes on sea surface temperature which could intensify the El Nino effect. Therefore, watching the El Nino phenomena and how global warming affects it, is important in predicting local climate especially the rainfall distribution in order to prevent significant loss in agriculture productivities.

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