A global network of MPAs: an important tool in addressing climate change

2020 ◽  
pp. 425-440
Author(s):  
Danielle Smith
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Network

scholarly journals Grassroots and Global Governance: Can Global–Local Linkages Foster Food System Resilience for Small Northern Canadian Communities?

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 2415
Author(s):  
Carla Johnston ◽  
Andrew Spring
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
Land Tenure ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Networks

Communities in Canada’s Northwest Territories (NWT) are at the forefront of the global climate emergency. Yet, they are not passive victims; local-level programs are being implemented across the region to maintain livelihoods and promote adaptation. At the same time, there is a recent call within global governance literature to pay attention to how global policy is implemented and affecting people on the ground. Thinking about these two processes, we ask the question: (how) can global governance assist northern Indigenous communities in Canada in reaching their goals of adapting their food systems to climate change? To answer this question, we argue for a “community needs” approach when engaging in global governance literature and practice, which puts community priorities and decision-making first. As part of a collaborative research partnership, we highlight the experiences of Ka’a’gee Tu First Nation, located in Kakisa, NWT, Canada. We include their successes of engaging in global network building and the systemic roadblock of lack of formal land tenure. Moreover, we analyze potential opportunities for this community to engage with global governance instruments and continue connecting to global networks that further their goals related to climate change adaptation and food sovereignty.

Traditional Kiribati beliefs about environmental issues and its impacts on rural and urban communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruiti Aretaake
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Documentary Sources ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
Cultural Compatibility ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
The Government

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to report how the encouragement of collaboration between local stakeholders, communities and the government helps slow the great impact of disaster risks and the impacts of climate change on livelihoods and lives. It also describes how promoting the acceptance and contributions of traditional knowledge in this effort owing to their accessibility and affordability and their cultural compatibility with the community contributes to addressing the challenges in Kiribati faces. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on government and NGO reports, as well as other documentary sources, this paper examines the nature of current efforts and the state of community practices in Kiribati. Findings Disaster risks and climate change are currently destroying all facets of I-Kiribati life. It is, therefore, imperative that a holistic form of partnership bringing together both state and non-state actors and that through this community awareness be implemented within the Kiribati policies and community development programs to improve dissemination of prevention and risk reduction programs, while maintaining the cultural infrastructure. Social implications Access to modern technologies and factors which inhibit local utilization of natural resources as well as traditional Kiribati beliefs about environment issues and impacts on people illustrate the potential and difficulties of convergence of new ideas with traditional knowledge. Originality/value The Kiribati “Frontline” project is an activity which has been led by the Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific Kiribati, both stimulated and in part subsidized by the Global Network for Disaster Reduction that provided financial support to work with rural and urban communities on mitigating disaster risks and climate change issues.

scholarly journals Key traits for ruminant livestock across diverse production systems in the context of climate change: perspectives from a global platform of research farms

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
M. Jordana Rivero ◽  
Nicolas Lopez-Villalobos ◽  
Alex Evans ◽  
Alexandre Berndt ◽  
Andrew Cartmill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Arable Land ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Feeding Strategies ◽  
Feed Conversion ◽  
Enteric Fermentation ◽  
Low Efficiency ◽  
Ruminant Livestock

Ruminant livestock are raised under diverse cultural and environmental production systems around the globe. Ruminant livestock can play a critical role in food security by supplying high-quality, nutrient-dense food with little or no competition for arable land while simultaneously improving soil health through vital returns of organic matter. However, in the context of climate change and limited land resources, the role of ruminant-based systems is uncertain because of their reputed low efficiency of feed conversion (kilogram of feed required per kilogram of product) and the production of methane as a by-product of enteric fermentation. A growing human population will demand more animal protein, which will put greater pressure on the Earth’s planetary boundaries and contribute further to climate change. Therefore, livestock production globally faces the dual challenges of mitigating emissions and adapting to a changing climate. This requires research-led animal and plant breeding and feeding strategies to optimise ruminant systems. This study collated information from a global network of research farms reflecting a variety of ruminant production systems in diverse regions of the globe. Using this information, key changes in the genetic and nutritional approaches relevant to each system were drawn that, if implemented, would help shape more sustainable future ruminant livestock systems.

scholarly journals Overlapping Climate Clubs: Self-Enforcing R&D Networks to Mitigate Global Warming

Games ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Emilson Caputo Delfino Silva ◽  
Chikara Yamaguchi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Carbon Capture And Storage ◽  
Free Riding ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Research Networks ◽  
Hub And Spoke ◽  
Control Climate ◽  
And Storage

Free riding incentives make it difficult to control climate change. To improve the chances of the Paris Agreement’s ambitious goal, many nations are forming scientific networks in carbon capture and storage (CCS). These networks take many forms (bilateral, hub-and-spoke, and multilateral). Studies of social interactions among scientists demonstrate that research networks are limited because of relational issues, such as lack of trust. This paper provides a rationale for the formation of various types of international CCS networks and examines their impacts on climate change. Our concept of stability focuses on Nash equilibria that are immune to coalitional deviations in overlapping networks. Players may belong to various research networks. A particular research network is a climate club. We show that in the absence of top-down coordination in clubs, the type of global network that forms depends on relational attrition. The complex task is to mitigate free riding while enhancing trust.

Social and epistemic disparities of the precariat.

2020 ◽  
pp. 163-178
Author(s):  
Hester du Plessis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Degradation ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries

We are facing two major challenges in present times. The first challenge is the global mass migrations of people due to war, climate change and environmental degradation, who are forced to work in precarious situations, often leading to socio-political disruptions. The second challenge lies in technology that provides a global network for the migration of ideas, liberating knowledge from its geographical and disciplinary boundaries and challenging our perceptions of human exceptionality. To bring together these challenges might seem impossible, but when one looks at the uncertainties emerging around humanity’s future, this is possibly a necessary task. In this chapter I would like to initiate some thinking in that direction.

scholarly journals Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
pp. eaay9969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek P. Tittensor ◽  
Maria Beger ◽  
Kristina Boerder ◽  
Daniel G. Boyce ◽  
Rachel D. Cavanagh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Global Ocean ◽  
Marine Biodiversity ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Management Objectives ◽  
Responsive Design

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) are required to ensure long-term effectiveness for safeguarding marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we review progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management and provide eight recommendations to expedite this process. Climate-smart management objectives should become the default for all protected areas, and made into an explicit international policy target. Furthermore, incentives to use more dynamic management tools would increase the climate change responsiveness of the MPA network as a whole. Given ongoing negotiations on international conservation targets, now is the ideal time to proactively reform management of the global seascape for the dynamic climate-biodiversity reality.

The Optimizing WEB

2011 ◽  
pp. 2012-2024
Author(s):  
Aditya K. Ghose ◽  
Graham Billiau
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Global Network ◽  
Carbon Mitigation ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Energy Consumption Optimization ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Change Mitigation ◽  
Reducing Energy

There is a global consensus on the need to reduce our collective carbon footprint. Improving the efficiency of how we use our infrastructure is central to reducing energy consumption. Optimization is fundamental to any approach to climate change mitigation. While optimization technology has been on offer for almost 70 years, most applications of optimization technology have been in piecemeal, monolithic optimization systems. Yet the climate change crisis requires optimization on a large-scale, and in manner that permits entities in a massive planetary supply chain to collaborate to achieve the commonly agreed upon carbon mitigation objective. Traditional stand-alone “batch” optimization will also not be adequate for this setting, but will need to be tightly coupled with networks of planners and controllers. This chapter presents a vision for the Optimizing Web – a large global network of interoperating optimizers that is as ubiquitous as the present-day web, and that leverages it‘s existing infrastructure for green ICT.

Who Leads the Conversation on Climate Change?: A Study of a Global Network of NGOs on Twitter

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 450-464
Author(s):  
Hong Tien Vu ◽  
Hung Viet Do ◽  
Hyunjin Seo ◽  
Yuchen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Network
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