scholarly journals The rise in climate change-induced federal fishery disasters in the United States

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11186
Author(s):  
Lyall Bellquist ◽  
Vienna Saccomanno ◽  
Brice X. Semmens ◽  
Mary Gleason ◽  
Jono Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Societal Benefit ◽  
Disaster Assistance ◽  
Environmental Events ◽  
The Impact

Commercial, recreational, and indigenous fisheries are critical to coastal economies and communities in the United States. For over three decades, the federal government has formally recognized the impact of fishery disasters via federal declarations. Despite these impacts, national syntheses of the dynamics, impacts, and causes of fishery disasters are lacking. We developed a nationwide Federal Fishery Disaster database using National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) fishery disaster declarations and fishery revenue data. From 1989-2020, there were 71 federally approved fishery disasters (eleven are pending), which spanned every federal fisheries management region and coastal state in the country. To date, we estimate fishery disasters resulted in $2B (2019 USD) in Congressional allocations, and an additional, conservative estimate of $3.2B (2019 USD) in direct revenue loss. Despite this scale of impact, the disaster assistance process is largely ad hoc and lacks sufficient detail to properly assess allocation fairness and benefit. Nonetheless, fishery disasters increased in frequency over time, and the causes of disasters included a broad range of anthropogenic and environmental factors, with a recent shift to disasters now almost exclusively caused by extreme environmental events (e.g., marine heatwaves, hurricanes, and harmful algal blooms). Nationwide, 84.5% of fishery disasters were either partially or entirely attributed to extreme environmental events. As climate change drives higher rates of such extreme events, and as natural disaster assistance requests reach an all-time high, the federal system for fisheries disaster declaration and mitigation must evolve in order to effectively protect both fisheries sustainability and societal benefit.

scholarly journals Marine harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States: History, current status and future trends

Harmful Algae ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 101975
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Elizabeth Fensin ◽  
Christopher J. Gobler ◽  
Alicia E. Hoeglund ◽  
Katherine A. Hubbard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
United States History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
States History

scholarly journals Taken by Storm: Hurricanes, Migrant Networks, and US Immigration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parag Mahajan ◽  
Dean Yang
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
International Migration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Migrant Networks ◽  
Disaster Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Natural Disaster Impacts ◽  
Us Immigration

Do negative shocks in origin countries encourage or inhibit international migration? What roles do networks play in modifying out-migration responses? The answers to these questions are not theoretically obvious, and past empirical findings are equivocal. We examine the impact of hurricanes on a quarter century of international migration to the United States. Hurricanes increase migration to the United States, with the effect’s magnitude increasing in the size of prior migrant stocks. We provide new insights into how networks facilitate legal, permanent US immigration in response to origin country shocks, a matter of growing importance as climate change increases natural disaster impacts. (JEL F22, J15, Q54, Z13)

scholarly journals Harmful algal blooms and eutrophication: Examining linkages from selected coastal regions of the United States

Harmful Algae ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Joann M. Burkholder ◽  
William P. Cochlan ◽  
Patricia M. Glibert ◽  
Christopher J. Gobler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
The United States ◽  
Coastal Regions

The Polluter Pays Principle as an Instrument of Municipal and Global Environmental Governance in Climate Change Mitigation Law: Lessons from China, India, and the United States

Climate Law ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-93
Author(s):  
Paul A. Barresi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Environmental Governance ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Polluter Pays Principle ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Change Mitigation

The disparate fates of the polluter pays principle (ppp) as an instrument of municipal environmental governance in the environmental law of China, India, and the United States illustrate how institutions and culture can shape its use. In China, essential elements of the Chinese legal tradition and an institutionalized devolution of power from the central government to local governments essentially neutralized the Chinese variant of the ppp in one important context by mobilizing certain culturally defined behavioural norms at the local level. In India, the Supreme Court has behaved in accordance with the socially revolutionary role intended for it by the framers of India’s Constitution by recognizing a maximalist conception of the ppp as part of Indian law, although other features of India’s unique legal culture and institutions have reduced the impact of this development. In the United States, the institutionalized fragmentation of the law-making process within the Federal Government has undermined even the implicit implementation of the ppp, to which US environmental statutes do not refer. The implications of these developments for the ppp as an instrument of municipal but also global environmental governance in climate change mitigation law flow less from the nominal status of the ppp in the laws of China, India, and the United States than from the unique institutional and cultural conditions that prevail there. The result is a case study in how institutions and culture can transform the implementation of a principle of environmental governance that at first glance might seem to be a simple exercise in economic rationality into a different exercise that is not simple at all.

scholarly journals 1591. Updated Fluoroquinolone MIC Breakpoints: Impact on Susceptibility Rates in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. S580-S581
Author(s):  
Robert K Flamm ◽  
Michael A Pfaller ◽  
Paul G Ambrose ◽  
David Andes ◽  
John S Bradley ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Broth Microdilution ◽  
Successful Model ◽  
Consultative Process ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Comparison Data

Abstract Background In 2015 USCAST, the National Advisory Committee for the United States (US) to EUCAST, produced a report (Version 1.0) on their website (www.uscast.org) re-evaluating fluoroquinolone (FQ) breakpoint interpretive criteria (IC) based on analysis of current microbiology and pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) data. EUCAST initiated a consultative process using USCAST analyses in an effort to update FQ IC, released in 2017. CLSI formed an ad-hoc working group in late 2015 to review the USCAST FQ document and formulate questions about content. In 2018, USCAST released V1.3 of the FQ document and CLSI subsequently published updated FQ MIC IC in the M100-S29 (2019) document. This study evaluated the impact on susceptibility (S) rates for US surveillance data that these IC changes created. Methods Clinical isolates (reference broth microdilution MIC) from 2016–2018 US SENTRY Program were analyzed for S based on current and previous IC. FQ results for ciprofloxacin (CIP), levofloxacin (LEV), and moxifloxacin (MOX) were evaluated. Benchmark S comparison data for meropenem, cefepime, piperacillin–tazobactam and delafloxacin (new FQ) were also included. Results S rates for Enterobacteriaceae (ENT;Figure) were reduced by 3.8/3.7% for CIP/LEV (CLSI) and 2.3/2.5% (EUCAST). MOX-S rate vs. ENT declined 5.7% (EUCAST). Although reductions in S occurred for most organism groups, K. pneumoniae (6.0/5.5% for CIP/LEV [CLSI] and 4.0/4.2% [EUCAST]) and S. marcescens (7.4/4.1% for CIP/LEV [CLSI] and 4.1/5.0% [EUCAST]) reductions were among the largest changes. For Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PSA), CIP-S decreased 6.8% and LEV-S 10.1% (CLSI); but potential for false-S results remain using CLSI IC (5 pathogens). Conclusion USCAST’s comprehensive analyses of FQ IC in 2015 led to revised breakpoints for most organism/drug combinations among ENT and PSA compared with those being used before. USCAST analysis was most influenced by PK/PD in vivo data as current clinical outcomes data by MIC was limited. Awareness and interactions (both formal and informal) among breakpoint setting organizations has modified FQ ICs which are lower than previously recommended, and although not perfectly harmonized in time and detail, this represents a successful model. Disclosures All authors: No reported disclosures.

Estimated annual economic impacts from harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald M. Anderson ◽  
Porter Hoagland ◽  
Yoshi Kaoru ◽  
Alan W. White
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Harmful Algal Blooms ◽  
Algal Blooms ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
The United States

The impact of climate change on maize yields in the United States and China

2011 ◽  
Vol 104 (4) ◽  
pp. 348-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Li ◽  
Taro Takahashi ◽  
Nobuhiro Suzuki ◽  
Harry M. Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Maize Yields ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Quantifying the Impact of Climate Change on Flexible Pavement Performance and Lifetime in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 2673 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne M. K. Stoner ◽  
Jo Sias Daniel ◽  
Jennifer M. Jacobs ◽  
Katharine Hayhoe ◽  
Ian Scott-Fleming
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Climate Model ◽  
Flexible Pavement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pavement Design ◽  
Pavement Performance ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
The Impact

Flexible pavement design requires considering a variety of factors including the materials used, variations in water tables, traffic levels, and the climatic conditions the road will experience over its lifetime. Most pavement designs are based on historical climate variables such as temperature and precipitation that are already changing across much of the United States, and do not reflect projected trends. As pavements are typically designed to last 20 years or more, designs that do not account for current and future trends can result in reduced performance. However, incorporating climate projections into pavement design is not a trivial exercise. Significant mismatches in both spatial and temporal scale challenge the integration of the latest global climate model simulations into pavement models. This study provides a national-level overview of what the impact of climate change to flexible pavement could look like, and where regional focus should be placed. It also demonstrates a new approach to developing high-resolution spatial and temporal projections that generates hourly information at the scale of individual weather stations, and applies this as input to the AASHTOWare Pavement ME Design™ model. The impact of three different future climates on pavement performance and time to reach failure thresholds in 24 locations across the United States are quantified. Changes to projected pavement performance differ by location, but nearly all result in decreased performance under current design standards. The largest increases in distress are observed for permanent deformation measures, especially toward the end of the century under greater increases in temperature.

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