The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues 1st Edition

The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780128223734,0128223731,9780128223741, 012822374X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 012822374X
• ISBN-13: 012822374X
• Author: Trevor Letcher

The Impacts of Climate Change: A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social and Political Issues presents the very real issues associated with climate change and global warming and how it affects the planet and everyone on it. From a physical perspective, the book covers such topics as population pressures, food issues, rising sea-levels and coastline degradation, and health. It then goes on to present social impacts, such as humanitarian issues, ethics, adaptation, urban issues, local action, and socio-economic issues. Finally, it addresses the political impacts, such as justice issues and politics of climate change in different locations.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Why discuss the impacts of climate change?

Chapter 2: Impacts of climate change on economies, ecosystems, energy, environments, and human equity: A systems perspective

Chapter 3: Climate change and melting glaciers

Chapter 4: Climate change and terrestrial biodiversity

Chapter 5: Effect of climate change on marine ecosystems

Chapter 6: Natural disasters linked to climate change

Chapter 7: Climate change and microbes

Chapter 8: Effects of climate change on food production (fishing)

Chapter 9: Effect of climate change on food production (animal products)

Chapter 10: Emerging typology and framing of climate-resilient agriculture in South Asia

Chapter 11: Social issues related to climate change and food production (crops)

Chapter 12: Climate change and world population

Chapter 13: Assessing the social and economic impacts of sea-level rise at a global scale—State of knowledge and challenges

Chapter 14: Societal adaptation to climate change

Chapter 15: Managing urban climate change risks: Prospects for using green infrastructure to increase urban resilience to floods

Chapter 16: Effect of climate change on the insurance sector

Chapter 17: Game theory and climate change

Chapter 18: Urban life and climate change

Chapter 19: Security implications of climate change: The climate-conflict nexus

Chapter 20: Climate change governance: Responding to an existential crisis

Chapter 21: Justice and climate change

Chapter 22: Climate change and the law

Chapter 23: The ethics of measuring climate change impacts

Chapter 24: Climate change and refugees

People also search:

what are the impacts of climate change on agriculture

the impacts of climate change at 1.5c 2c and beyond

the effects of climate change are

the impacts of climate change on agriculture

the impact of climate change in africa

the impact of climate change on animals