Sustainable Human Settlement and Climate Change Adaptation in China

2012 ◽  
Vol 524-527 ◽  
pp. 3674-3677
Author(s):  
Li Jun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Human Settlement ◽  
Loss Of Life ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Major Loss ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Reduce Risk

A sustainable human settlement is a healthy environment to work and live in. The need is becoming obviously in the decline in environmental quality as well as global climate change. Climate change and related hazards are having impacts on human settlements causing major loss of life, social disruption and economic hardship. The unvalued nature of sustainable human settlement makes it difficult to incorporate the environment in the normal calculation schemes of rational market behavior. Linking of climate change adaptation with sustainable human settlement is important and starting to happen although there are significant barriers. Many settlements in China are at risk and need to adapt and reduce risk. Addressing the challenge of climate change must be established to meet the needs of providing a sustainable human settlement base on which to develop and implement public policies.

scholarly journals Partial costs of global climate change adaptation for the supply of raw industrial and municipal water: a methodology and application

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 044011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip J Ward ◽  
Kenneth M Strzepek ◽  
W Pieter Pauw ◽  
Luke M Brander ◽  
Gordon A Hughes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Municipal Water

Urbanising climate justice: constructing scales and politicising difference

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 559-574 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kian Goh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Urban Change ◽  
Urban Theory ◽  
Primary Object ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
Historical Difference

Abstract Central debates in urban studies often appear to neglect the most urgent issues confronting cities and regions. Discourses on generalised urban processes, historical difference and planetary urbanisation rarely take, as a primary object of analysis, intertwined global climate change and urban change. Climate change is often considered generalised, affecting everyone everywhere. But its impacts are unevenly distributed and experienced. It links generalised processes and particular impacts and actions with implications for urban theory. This article builds on theories of multiscalar research and the politics of location to develop a conceptual framework of urban change through the lens of climate justice.

scholarly journals Global Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in Taiwan: A Critical Bibliometric Analysis and Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Mucahid Mustafa Bayrak ◽  
Yi-Ya Hsu ◽  
Li-San Hung ◽  
Huei-Min Tsai ◽  
tibusungu ‘e vayayana
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Bibliometric Analysis ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Typhoon Morakot ◽  
Post Disaster

In recent years, the subject of Indigenous peoples and global climate change adaptation has become a rapidly growing area of international study. Despite this trend, Taiwan, home to many Indigenous communities, has received relatively little attention. To date, no comprehensive review of the literature on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples and global climate change has been conducted. Therefore, this article presents a bibliometric analysis and literature review of both domestic and international studies on Taiwan’s Indigenous peoples in relation to resilience, climate change, and climate shocks in the 10-year period after Typhoon Morakot (2009). We identified 111 domestic and international peer-reviewed articles and analyzed their presentation of the current state of knowledge, geographical and temporal characteristics, and Indigenous representation. Most studies were discovered to focus on post-disaster recovery, particularly within the context of Typhoon Morakot, as well as Indigenous cultures, ecological wisdom, and community development. This study also discovered relatively few studies investigating how traditional ecological knowledge systems can be integrated into climate change adaptation. Most studies also adopted a somewhat narrow focus on Indigenous resilience. Large-scale quantitative and longitudinal studies are found to be in their infancy. We observed a geographical skewness among the studies in favor of southern Taiwan and relatively limited engagement with contemporary studies on Indigenous peoples and climate change. We furthermore determined a large overlap between the destruction path of Morakot and study sites in the articles. Indigenous scholars have managed to find a voice among domestic and international outlets, and an increasing number of scholars have argued for more culturally sensitive approaches to post-disaster recovery and disaster management in Taiwan.

scholarly journals Reviewing the links between climate change and resource conflict

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-152
Author(s):  
Abugu Nkechinyere Anthonia ◽  
Yero Ahmed Bello ◽  
Odele Muyiwa Oliatan ◽  
Irene Amahagbor Macaulay
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Resource Availability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Resource Conflict ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Resource Conflicts ◽  
Change Climate ◽  
The Relationship

Knowledge of the relationship between climate change and resource conflict is paramount in resolving resource conflict between farmers and herdsmen in Nigeria. However, there is yet no general agreement on how climate change causes or influences resource conflict. Thus, a review of existing literature that link climate change and resource conflict was conducted for identification of the missing link. These were achieved through the review of literature published in the era of the recent global climate change from late 90s to date. Selections of papers were based on the topic and date of publication. Result showed that there is general agreement that climate change influence resource conflicts. Some of the authors agreed that climate change cannot cause resource conflict in isolation but through influences on other factors that affect resource availability, accessibility and utility. These factors are also influenced by policies and socio-cultural system. Thus, resource conflict may be a secondary or tertiary effect of climate change. Climate change solution is scares in literature that linked climate change and resource conflict. Thus, future studies should be focused on climate change solution to resource conflict. Keywords: Climate change, Resource conflict, Literature review, Famers

scholarly journals Opportunities and Challenges of Scaling up Agroforestry Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (03) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamirat Wato ◽  
Mekides Amare
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Scaling Up ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Agroforestry Practices

Agroforestry is land-use systems and technologies where woody perennials are deliberately used on equivalent land management units as crops and/or animals. Its systems combine tree growing with the assembly of different crops or animals. Hence, developing positive ecological and economic interactions between components, agroforestry systems aim to produce a variety of environmental, economic and social advantages to farming communities. It plays a major role in soil conservation and global climate change mitigation particularly due to its tree component. Trees control soil degradation through their roots and accumulate greenhouse emission (GHG) in their biomass. What is more, it conjointly helps in global climate change adaptation. It’s a long-time undeniable fact that despite our gift effort at global climate change mitigation (GHG reduction), there is an additional pressing ought to address the impact of global climate change (adaptation). Peoples ought to be acutely aware regarding the scope and advantages of agroforestry and that they ought to participate in the implementation and development of agroforestry within the country. Thus, this paper reviews different analysis findings on the opportunities and challenges for scaling up agroforestry practices. Therefore, the agroforestry system is economically and ecologically sound practices with an improvement of overall farm productivity, soil enrichment through litterfall, maintaining environmental services like international global climate change mitigation (carbon sequestration), phytoremediation, watershed protection and biodiversity conservation.

scholarly journals Global Climate Change Adaptation Priorities for Biodiversity and Food Security

PLoS ONE ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. e72590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Hannah ◽  
Makihiko Ikegami ◽  
David G. Hole ◽  
Changwan Seo ◽  
Stuart H. M. Butchart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document