scholarly journals Macro-level study on Climate Change effects on agriculture and human health in Western Himalayas: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashutosh Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Disease Outbreaks ◽  
Pest Species ◽  
Western Himalayas ◽  
Forest Pest ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Increasing Temperature

The current study reveals that the western Himalayas has a fragile ecosystem, highly susceptible to rapid changes in land morphology due to the consequences of climate change. Land-use and climatic change in this region has negative impacts on agriculture and human health. Increasing temperature, erratic precipitation, and rising CO2 concentrations are the main drivers which show adverse effects on agriculture and human health. The impacts trends in this region can be categorised into exacerbated pathogenicity are pathogens, and hence disease outbreaks, changes in the traditional agriculture techniques, and people’s migration that directly changes in ecological and leading to social inequalities. In the last few decades, there have been changes in vector species distribution in agriculture and increases of forest pest species attacks by climate change in agriculture and forest pest increases, and parasites are emerging during periods of these last few decades. Enhancement of seasonal transmission and distribution of pests pushes food insecurity and vector-borne infections deteriorate human health. This review article tries to analyse different literature on the effects of climate change on agriculture and human health in the Western Himalayas and suggest agroforestry and agroecology is some of the strategies to overcome climate change impact.

scholarly journals Climate Change, Millet and Ritual Relationship with the Magars of Argal, Baglung, Nepal

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 107-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Man Bahadur Khattri
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Finger Millet ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Cultural Analysis ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Staple Food ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Increasing Temperature ◽  
New Situation

This paper focuses on cultural analysis and how people are coping with new situation created by climate change in production of millet. Changes relating to climate change are observed; perceived and understood on a local level. This is an important area of study for anthropologists and it is interest of climate scientists as well. This paper is based on anthropological analysis on climate change effects on finger millet production in Argal VDC of Baglung district, West of Nepal. Millet is a staple food of people of Argal and most of Hill people of Nepal. Millet is not only staple food and associated with nutrition of people. It's also associated with rituals during production and as well as during consumption. Increasing temperature, changing rainfall patterns, extreme weather events are linked with climate change which has direct effect on life of all people but also millet production and ritual activities. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dsaj.v6i0.8481 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 6, 2012 107-124

The Environmental Justice Imperative

2021 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Health Effects ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local State ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
African People ◽  
Climate And Health ◽  
Negative Impacts

Chapter 12 probes the interface of climate change and human health with an emphasis on underserved communities. Patrick N. Breysse reviews the health effects of climate change and describes how the CDC’s Climate and Health Program helps bolster local, state, tribal, and territorial efforts to protect vulnerable communities. Robert Bullard and Beverly Wright confront the racial inequity of climate change and chemical disasters. Bullard channels the legacy of slavery as he demonstrates how states that enslaved African people now house the communities hit hardest by climate change. Wright describes the unique ways that local communities confront the negative impacts of climate change. And Elizabeth Sawin presents a concept called “multisolving” that addresses climate change solutions that also have health benefits.

Total and methylmercury concentrations in Canadian alpine proglacial freshwater rivers (Banff and Jasper National Parks)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica A. Serbu ◽  
Vincent L. St.Louis ◽  
Sydney J. A. Enns
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
National Parks ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Sampling Location ◽  
Human Populations ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Alpine Regions ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Methyl Hg

<p>Anthropogenic activities have resulted in increased mercury (Hg) emissions, and the deposition of inorganic and methyl Hg to watersheds, including those that are glaciated. Alpine glaciers are melting at unprecedented rates due to climate change, with glacier-fed rivers potentially transporting contaminants such as mercury historically archived in glacial ice to downstream proglacial environments. Hg in glacial rivers can also be derived from natural sources such as the erosion of subglacial and proglacial geologic material as glaciers melt and retreat. Furthermore, as inorganic Hg moves downstream, methylation can occur in regions of the watershed that contain wetlands, for example, transforming into it into toxic methyl Hg (MeHg) that can biomagnify in the watershed’s food web.</p><p>We conducted detailed monthly water quality surveys along three major glacial river transects (the Athabasca, North Saskatchewan, and Bow) in the Canadian Rocky Mountains (Banff and Jasper National Parks, Alberta), that included sampling for total and dissolved concentrations of total Hg (THg; all forms of Hg in a sample) and MeHg up to 100 km downstream of glacial termini. The resultant inter-seasonal data, spanning from May to December in this mid-latitude region, will be used to assess the amount of Hg originating from glacial melt in these systems and how it is transformed as it moves downstream. We will also examine contributions of Hg from the erosion of subglacial and proglacial bedrock material. Preliminary results show that THg and MeHg concentrations are very low in these rivers, consistently measuring at less that 3 ng/L. Additionally, as one moves downstream a larger proportion of THg is in the dissolved fraction. MeHg always measured around or below our laboratory’s detection limit (0.01 ng/L) regardless of the sampling location on our river transects.</p><p>The presence of contaminants such as Hg can have negative impacts on freshwater quality, organisms within the watershed, and downstream human populations. Quantifying the amount and speciation of Hg in the headwaters of three primary watersheds in Canada could have important implications for future research and the ongoing challenge of properly planning for drastic climate change effects in glaciated alpine regions despite concentrations of THg and MeHg being so low. </p>

scholarly journals Students’ Awareness towards Climate Change: A Study of Climate Change Effects on Human Health in Nepal

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 18-26
Author(s):  
Bhawana Gautam ◽  
Punam Kumari Mandal ◽  
Namita Yangden
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Secondary Level ◽  
Environmental Issue ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Individual Country ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Climate change and its impact on human health and awareness constitute a set of complex and serious consequences to be tackled by an individual country. It is not merely an environmental issue, but it is also a threat that goes beyond the national borders. The purpose of this study is to assess the awareness on effect of climate change on human health among the secondary level students of Biratnagar. The research design was descriptive cross-sectional and data was collected from 110 samples through the census method using the semi-structured self-administered questionnaire. Among the respondents, 84.5% knew that climate change can be prevented. Moreover, 50.9% perceived that climate change is an unbreakable process; 77.3% of them perceived climate change is the cause of new disease; and 81.8% of them are concerned about preventing the effects of climate change on human health. Among the respondents, 10% had adequate awareness. The study concluded that half of the secondary level students have inadequate level of awareness on effects of climate change on human health in Biratnagar. It is recommended that awareness should be increased by involving them in the project work activities and reinforcing the component of curriculum.

scholarly journals Modeling of Logging Industry Dynamics Under the Global Climate Change: the Evidence from Siberian Regions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1870-1879
Author(s):  
Anna V. Chugunkova
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Krasnoyarsk Krai ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Logging Industry ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Wood Harvest ◽  
Winter Logging

As a part of global economy, forestry experiences influence of diverse factors and global climate change in particular, which can affect forestry directly or indirectly via changes in qualitative and quantitative assessment of forest growing stocks, and in positive or negative manner. Climate change effects on Russian forestry are still poorly studied and call for more attention in policy-making. One of the direct impacts is shortening of winter logging season duration, which may result in decreasing wood harvests. Using the data on logging volumes in Krasnoyarsk Krai and Irkutsk Oblast and estimated duration of winter logging season on meteorological stations for the retrospective period of 1966-2018, eight ARDL models were evaluated. The modeling results supported the idea of dependence of harvested wood volumes on winter logging season duration across all considered meteorological stations. To reduce negative impacts on logging industry in terms of wood harvest reduction, adaptation activities in forestry are sorely needed

scholarly journals Changing Climate Patterns and Women Health: An Empirical Analysis of District Rawalpindi, Pakistan

2018 ◽  
Vol III (IV) ◽  
pp. 320-342
Author(s):  
Tahseen Ajaz ◽  
Muhammad Tariq Majeed
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Burden Of Illness ◽  
Extreme Rainfall ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Weather Patterns ◽  
Women Health ◽  
Increasing Temperature

Climate change, the greatest environmental challenge of current era, affects human health badly. Natural hazards such as storms, droughts, excessive rains, floods, droughts and increasing temperature always threaten human health. South Asian rural women bear more household responsibilities than men in terms of fetching water and burning biomass fuel for cooking and heating. To obtain these resources women have to go out and are more exposed to outdoor environment and the increased exposure make them more amenable to the effects of changing climatic and weather patterns. The objective of this study is to document women health impacts under climate change in District Rawalpindi, Pakistan. We find that climate change increases the incidence of diseases which affect physical health. In developing countries, extreme weather patterns disproportionally affect vulnerable population like women, children and others bear burden of illness. Pakistan also faces heat waves fluctuation during summer and extreme rainfall pattern which have severe effect on overall health of individuals. We conclude that climatic changes (increasing heat intensity, dry spells, unusual rains and others) affect women health badly. The state has to improve our climate by offering effective policies. This may include reforestation, plantation in and outside homes and environmental friendly policies like renewable energy that is a shift from coal and oil investing energy projects. Increase of green areas within urban localities is also needed.

scholarly journals Assessment of climate change impacts on environmental sustainability in Afghanistan

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 01001
Author(s):  
Ahmad Tamim Mehrad
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Anthropogenic Activities ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Increasing Temperature ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Environmental Landscape ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate change is a global phenomenon that became one of the most predominant environmental challenges facing our world today. Natural events and anthropogenic activities are responsible for increasing the negative impacts and risks associated with climate change. Developing countries in Asia and Africa are bearing much of the climate change burden due to rapid population growth, crop failures, and lack of required technological and financial resources to mitigate the risks. Afghanistan, like other developing countries, is highly vulnerable to the severe impacts of climate change. In Afghanistan, climate change is related to various adverse effects on water resources, agriculture, forests, biodiversity, increasing temperature, and changing the environmental landscape. This paper analyses the impact of climate change on environmental sustainability in Afghanistan.

scholarly journals Climate change effects on emperor penguins

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-60
Author(s):  
Casilda Saavedra ◽  
Taibah Alhatem
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Breeding Population ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Emperor Penguin ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Ice Coverage ◽  
Emperor Penguins ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Mother Earth

Climate change is one of the major issues affecting our mother Earth. The change in climate include both the change intemperature and the change in precipitation. Both of these parameters are very crucial to animals and plants where they depend onthem for their survival. Climate change has so many negative impacts on the biodiversity of the Earth especially in the Arctic andAntarctic continents. The rise in temperature decreases the ice coverage which in return reduces the population of the wildlife. Theice coverage is crucial to the biodiversity living in Antarctica where they depend on it for their survival. It’s very important for theirfeeding, breeding, and habitat. However, with the reduction of ice, many animals are becoming close to extinction. One of thosespecies that were negatively impacted by climate change is emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri). These penguins require verylow temperatures in order to breed and populate. Very high temperatures for these penguins could result in decreased population ratearound Antarctica. An analysis was done of emperor penguin population data found in different research papers in conjunction withtemperature anomalies data in Antarctica from 1983 to 2005 from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).The results indicated that there was an inverse relationship between the temperature and the penguin’s population. It was shownthrough the analysis conducted that the temperature impacted the penguins negatively throughout the years since the temperaturewas rising. It decreased their breeding population and chicks count dramatically in all the parts of Antarctica tested.

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