Between global and local: governing climate change transnationally

2015 ◽  
pp. 82-103
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global And Local

scholarly journals Testing Farmers’ Perception of Climate Variability: A Case Study from Kirtipur of Kathmandu Valley

2012 ◽  
pp. 30-34
Author(s):  
Jiban Mani Poudel
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Variability ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Climatic Variability ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Kathmandu Valley ◽  
Climatic Fluctuations ◽  
Climate Fluctuations ◽  
Global And Local

In the 21st century, global climate change has become a public and political discourse. However, there is still a wide gap between global and local perspectives. The global perspective focuses on climate fluctuations that affect the larger region; and their analysis is based on long-term records over centuries and millennium. By comparison, local peoples’ perspectives vary locally, and local analyses are limited to a few days, years, decades and generations only. This paper examines how farmers in Kirtipur of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, understand climate variability in their surroundings. The researcher has used a cognized model to understand farmers’ perception on weather fluctuations and climate change. The researcher has documented several eyewitness accounts of farmers about weather fluctuations which they have been observing in a lifetime. The researcher has also used rainfall data from 1970-2009 to test the accuracy of perceptions. Unlike meteorological analyses, farmers recall and their understanding of climatic variability by weather-crop interaction, and events associating with climatic fluctuations and perceptions are shaped by both physical visibility and cultural frame or belief system.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hn.v11i1.7200 Hydro Nepal Special Issue: Conference Proceedings 2012 pp.30-34

scholarly journals Global and Local Concerns: What Attitudes and Beliefs Motivate Farmers to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. e52882 ◽  
Author(s):  
Van R. Haden ◽  
Meredith T. Niles ◽  
Mark Lubell ◽  
Joshua Perlman ◽  
Louise E. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Attitudes And Beliefs ◽  
Global And Local

scholarly journals Sea level under climate change: Understanding the links between the past and the future

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keven Roy ◽  
Nicole S. Khan ◽  
Timothy A. Shaw ◽  
Robert E. Kopp ◽  
Benjamin P. Horton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Water Volume ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Global Average ◽  
Flood Risks ◽  
The Past ◽  
Recent Climate ◽  
Global Sea Level ◽  
Global And Local

Rising global sea level, a consequence of climate change, results from an increase in the world ocean’s water volume and mass. Recent climate warming is responsible for producing the highest rate of global average sea-level rise of the past few millennia, and this rate will accelerate through the 21st century and beyond, exposing low-lying islands and coastal regions to significant flood risks. The flood risks can be compounded or diminished locally because changes in sea level are not uniform. In this review, we briefly discuss ice sheets as drivers of global and local sea levels, and how they could evolve under modern climate change. We underline some of the impacts of sea level change on coastal communities, and emphasize that local sea-level projections can be very different from estimates of the global average.

scholarly journals Agriculture versus climate change – A narrow staple-based rural livelihood of Papua New Guinea is a threat to survival under climate change

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Patrick S. Michael
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Local Population ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Subsistence Agriculture ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
The People ◽  
Rural Livelihood ◽  
Development Plans ◽  
Global And Local

This paper presents a synthesis related to the assessment of climate change and its impacts on productivity of staple crops in Papua New Guinea (PNG), paying close attention to the change in population in the next 80 years. As much as the changes in the climatic and environmental factors will affect agriculture, evidence available in the literature show increase in global and local population will put additional pressure on agriculture by competing with available land and other resources that support agricultural productivity. The developing and underdeveloped countries are considered to be largely vulnerable as more than 85% of the people depend on subsistence agriculture for rural livelihood. This synthesis showed more than 60–85% of the rural people in PNG depend on sweet potato, banana, Colocasia taro, and greater yam. Projection of the population showed there will be 22–31 million people by 2100 and will depend on narrow staple-based subsistence agriculture. The population projected means the density will be 42 people per km2, putting more pressure on limited land available. When that happens, PNG will not be prepared to mitigate, be resilient and adapt because of poor infrastructure, no development plans and lack of post-harvest technologies for loss management of the staples, most of which are root and tuber crops.

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 AIR POLLUTION AND ITS IMPACT ON CLIMATE CHANGES IN IRAQ

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Hodoud Mohemad Aboode ALTUFYLY ◽  
Itab Yousef ALLUHAIBI
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Air Pollution ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Airborne Pollutants ◽  
Control Climate ◽  
Rain Fall ◽  
And Control ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Atmospheric Concentrations

The issue of air pollution and its impact on climate change is a subject of great global and local interest. Significant attention is being paid to Iraq by distributing a range of observation and monitoring stations for atmospheric concentrations of gases and pollutants, with permanent pollution centers or sources in Iraq and the most prominent causes being examined, as well as the impact of airborne pollutants on climate component values This was clearly reflected in the climate changes, the most prominent feature of which was the rise in temperatures and the lack of rain fall in Mosul, Baghdad and Basra stations, and this was clearly reflected in the environment, where drought and death of animals were evident, especially in the southern marshes of Iraq. The study developed a range of ways to reduce air pollution and control climate change by adopting a range of means to adapt to it, thus classifying Iraq among the countries with fragile ecosystems, which have a quick impact on air pollutants.

scholarly journals A fresh look at the biodiversity lexicon for fiddler crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Part 2: Biogeography

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S Rosenberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Keystone Species ◽  
Species Assemblages ◽  
Fiddler Crabs ◽  
Species Ranges ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Coastal Species ◽  
As Species ◽  
Local Patterns ◽  
Global And Local

Abstract Fiddler crabs (Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815) occupy most tropical and semitropical coastlines worldwide where they are keystone species and ecosystem engineers. I present updated ranges for all 105 species and explore both global and local patterns to establish a baseline distribution as species ranges begin to shift with climate change. Globally, the average number of species per occupied coastline is five, with only limited allopatry observed within the group. Cohesive species assemblages were used to define four zoogeographic fiddler realms containing 24 provinces and transitional zones. These regions can serve as units of study when trying to explore which factors influence the distribution of coastal species.

scholarly journals Natural and anthropogenic influences on the Nhecolândia wetlands, SE Pantanal, Brazil

2018 ◽  
Vol 488 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emiliano Castro de Oliveira ◽  
Sila Pla-Pueyo ◽  
Christopher R. Hackney
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Saline Lakes ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Anthropogenic Influences ◽  
Historical Changes ◽  
Flood Regime ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Global And Local

AbstractThe Nhecolândia region covers the southern wetlands of the Pantanal basin in Brazil. Characterized by myriad shallow freshwater and alkaline–saline lakes, the distinct natural features of the Nhecolândia wetland make it highly sensitive to climate change and the effects of human activities. This paper summarizes the natural and social aspects that have affected this delicate wetland and potential future impacts. We analysed the response of the wetland to historical changes in climate and human activity and used this understanding to forecast the response of the wetland to future changes. The data presented here show that this region is particularly sensitive to alterations in the flood regime, droughts and deforestation, which are intrinsically related to both global and local changes in climate and the intensification of cattle-ranching activities, which include deforestation and the introduction of cultivated pastures.

Transitions

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Resource Constraints ◽  
Consumption Patterns ◽  
Rural And Remote ◽  
Drivers Of Change ◽  
Sustainability Transition ◽  
Critical Problems ◽  
Key Drivers ◽  
Oil Water ◽  
Global And Local

Formidable challenges confront Australia and its human settlements: the mega-metro regions, major and provincial cities, coastal, rural and remote towns. The key drivers of change and major urban vulnerabilities have been identified and principal among them are resource-constraints, such as oil, water, food, skilled labour and materials, and carbon-constraints, linked to climate change and a need to transition to renewable energy, both of which will strongly shape urban development this century. Transitions identifies 21st century challenges to the resilience of Australia’s cities and regions that flow from a range of global and local influences, and offers a portfolio of solutions to these critical problems and vulnerabilities. The solutions will require fundamental transitions in many instances: to our urban infrastructures, to our institutions and how they plan for the future, and perhaps most of all to ourselves in terms of our lifestyles and consumption patterns. With contributions from 92 researchers - all leaders in their respective fields - this book offers the expertise to chart pathways for a sustainability transition.

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