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This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series,
covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures.
It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin
Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are
experts in this field and have been lead authors in many of the
IPCC assessments and other major publications.Lectures in Climate
Change is a unique combination of written text plus electronic
slides that together comprise an informative and up-to-date set of
presentations. This second volume, entitled Our Warming Planet:
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, covers areas of climate
impacts related to climate science, methods and approaches,
sectors, regional and national studies, and policy and practice.The
volume comprises topics such as current and future challenges of
climate change, global assessments, downscaling, community-based
adaptation, impacts on biodiversity, food systems, water resources,
and cities. Research from across the world is presented on making
science actionable through assessments, early warning and early
action, communicating climate risk, documenting the uptake of
adaptation on the global front, and transformation towards systemic
resilience.Included with this publication are downloadable
electronic slides and accompanying notes of each lecture for
students, teachers, and public speakers around the world to be
better able to understand and present climate change impacts and
adaptation.
The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely
heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study. Dr
David Rind in his career at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and as a professor at Columbia University has had the
opportunity to explore many of these subjects with colleagues from
these diverse disciplines. It was therefore natural for the
Lectures in Climate Change series to begin with his colleagues
contributing lectures on their specific areas of expertise.This
first volume, entitled Our Warming Planet: Topics in Climate
Dynamics, encompasses topics such as natural and anthropogenic
climate forcing, climate modeling, radiation, clouds, atmospheric
dynamics/storms, hydrology, clouds, the cryosphere, paleoclimate,
sea level rise, agriculture, atmospheric chemistry, and climate
change education. Included with this publication are downloadable
PowerPoint slides of each lecture for students and teachers around
the world to be better able to understand various aspects of
climate change.The lectures on climate change processes and
consequences provide snapshots of the cutting-edge work being done
to understand what may well be the greatest challenge of our time,
in a form suitable for classroom presentation.
The portending process of climate change, induced by the
anthropogenic accumulations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,
is likely to generate effects that will cascade through the
biosphere, impacting all life on earth and bearing upon human
endeavors. Of special concern is the potential effect on
agriculture and global food security.Anticipating these effects
demands that scientists widen their field of vision and cooperate
across disciplines to encompass increasingly complex interactions.
Trans-disciplinary cooperation should aim to generate effective
responses to the evolving risks, including actions to mitigate the
emissions of greenhouse gases and to adapt to those climate changes
that cannot be avoided.This handbook presents an exposition of
current research on the impacts, adaptation, and mitigation of
climate change in relation to agroecosystems. It is offered as the
first volume in what is intended to be an ongoing series dedicated
to elucidating the interactions of climate change with a broad
range of sectors and systems, and to developing and spurring
effective responses to this global challenge. As the collective
scientific and practical knowledge of the processes and responses
involved continues to grow, future volumes in the series will
address important aspects of the topic periodically over the coming
years.
Managing climate variability and change remains a key development
and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant
investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two
decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair
livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing
efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of
climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies
adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive
integrated framework. First, the most recent science available is
used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its
potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical
data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural
impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e.
warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing
characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise)
is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential
agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production
is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against
the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these.
Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future
food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally,
adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book
is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical
procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework
will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention
strategies and investments in adaptation measures.
The processes and consequences of climate change are extremely
heterogeneous, encompassing many different fields of study. Dr
David Rind in his career at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space
Studies and as a professor at Columbia University has had the
opportunity to explore many of these subjects with colleagues from
these diverse disciplines. It was therefore natural for the
Lectures in Climate Change series to begin with his colleagues
contributing lectures on their specific areas of expertise.This
first volume, entitled Our Warming Planet: Topics in Climate
Dynamics, encompasses topics such as natural and anthropogenic
climate forcing, climate modeling, radiation, clouds, atmospheric
dynamics/storms, hydrology, clouds, the cryosphere, paleoclimate,
sea level rise, agriculture, atmospheric chemistry, and climate
change education. Included with this publication are downloadable
PowerPoint slides of each lecture for students and teachers around
the world to be better able to understand various aspects of
climate change.The lectures on climate change processes and
consequences provide snapshots of the cutting-edge work being done
to understand what may well be the greatest challenge of our time,
in a form suitable for classroom presentation.
This volume, the second in the Lectures in Climate Change series,
covers the full array of climate impacts and adaptation measures.
It has been brought together by friends and colleagues of Dr Martin
Parry, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
(IPCC) 2007 assessment on impacts and adaptation. The writers are
experts in this field and have been lead authors in many of the
IPCC assessments and other major publications.Lectures in Climate
Change is a unique combination of written text plus electronic
slides that together comprise an informative and up-to-date set of
presentations. This second volume, entitled Our Warming Planet:
Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, covers areas of climate
impacts related to climate science, methods and approaches,
sectors, regional and national studies, and policy and practice.The
volume comprises topics such as current and future challenges of
climate change, global assessments, downscaling, community-based
adaptation, impacts on biodiversity, food systems, water resources,
and cities. Research from across the world is presented on making
science actionable through assessments, early warning and early
action, communicating climate risk, documenting the uptake of
adaptation on the global front, and transformation towards systemic
resilience.Included with this publication are downloadable
electronic slides and accompanying notes of each lecture for
students, teachers, and public speakers around the world to be
better able to understand and present climate change impacts and
adaptation.
Approximately 80% of the U.S. population now lives in urban
metropolitan areas, and this number is expected to grow
significantly in the coming years. At the same time, the built
infrastructure sustaining these populations has become increasingly
vulnerable to climate change. Stresses to existing systems, such as
buildings, energy, transportation, water, and sanitation are
growing. If the status quo continues, these systems will be unable
to support a high quality of life for urban residents over the next
decades, a vulnerability exacerbated by climate change impacts.
Understanding this dilemma and identifying a path forward is
particularly important as cities are becoming leading agents of
climate action. Prepared as a follow-up to the Fourth National
Climate Assessment (NCA), Climate Change and U.S. Cities documents
the current understanding of existing and future climate risk for
U.S. cities, urban systems, and the residents that depend on them.
Beginning with an examination of the existing science since 2012,
chapters develop connections between existing and emerging climate
risk, adaptation planning, and the role of networks and
organizations in facilitating climate action in cities. From
studies revealing disaster vulnerability among low-income
populations to the development of key indicators for tracking
climate change, this is an essential, foundational analysis.
Importantly, the assessment puts a critical emphasis on the
cross-cutting factors of economics, equity, and governance. Urban
stakeholders and decision makers will come away with a full picture
of existing climate risks and a set of conclusions and
recommendations for action. Many cities in the United States still
have not yet planned for climate change and the costs of inaction
are great. With bold analysis, Climate Change and U.S. Cities
reveals the need for action and the tools that cities must harness
to effect decisive, meaningful change.
This two-part handbook focuses on the work that the Agricultural
Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) accomplished
using a new method - the AgMIP Regional Integrated Assessment
Protocol - in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and South Asia (SA), with
funding from the UK Department for International Development.
Through this research, AgMIP substantially improves the
characterization and understanding of food security in SSA and SA
and how its affected by climate variability and change.The chapters
in this handbook demonstrate how AgMIP has enhanced the capacity of
developing country researchers and stakeholders to work together,
exploring and prioritizing adaptation to current and future climate
stresses. Part 1 describes regional integrated assessment methods
and analyses, while Part 2 presents the outcomes of farming system
studies. The entire volume shows how AgMIP has established, as a
public good, protocols for Regional Integrated Assessments that
improve the capability of developing countries to address climate
change challenges.Related Link(s)
The Urban Climate Change Research Network's Second Assessment
Report on Climate Change in Cities (ARC3.2) is the second in a
series of global, science-based reports to examine climate risk,
adaptation, and mitigation efforts in cities. The book explicitly
seeks to explore the implications of changing climatic conditions
on critical urban physical and social infrastructure sectors and
intersectoral concerns. The primary purpose of ARC3.2 is to inform
the development and implementation of effective urban climate
change policies, leveraging ongoing and planned investments for
populations in cities of developing, emerging, and developed
countries. This volume, like its predecessor, will be invaluable
for a range of audiences involved with climate change and cities:
mayors, city officials and policymakers; urban planners;
policymakers charged with developing climate change mitigation and
adaptation programs; and a broad spectrum of researchers and
advanced students in the environmental sciences.
Managing climate variability and change remains a key development
and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant
investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two
decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impair
livelihoods. Climate change will pose additional risks to ongoing
efforts to reduce poverty. This book examines the implications of
climate change on food security in Bangladesh and identifies
adaptation measures in the agriculture sector using a comprehensive
integrated framework. First, the most recent science available is
used to characterize current climate and hydrology and its
potential changes. Second, country-specific survey and biophysical
data is used to derive more realistic and accurate agricultural
impact functions and simulations. A range of climate risks (i.e.
warmer temperatures, higher carbon dioxide concentrations, changing
characteristics of floods, droughts and potential sea level rise)
is considered to gain a more complete picture of potential
agriculture impacts. Third, while estimating changes in production
is important, economic responses may to some degree buffer against
the physical losses predicted, and an assessment is made of these.
Food security is dependent not only on production, but also future
food requirements, income levels and commodity prices. Finally,
adaptation possibilities are identified for the sector. This book
is the first to combine these multiple disciplines and analytical
procedures to comprehensively address these impacts. The framework
will serve as a useful guide to design policy intervention
strategies and investments in adaptation measures.
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