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1. 2500 Years of European Climate Variability and Human Susceptibility

Author:
Büntgen, Ulf; Tegel, Willy; Nicolussi, Kurt; McCormick, Michael; Frank, David; Trouet, Valerie; Kaplan, Jed O.; Herzig, Franz; Heussner, Karl-Uwe; Wanner, Heinz; Luterbacher, Jürg; Esper, Jan
Source:
Science 2011 v.331 no.6017 pp. 578-582
ISSN:
0036-8075
Subject:
anthropogenic activities; climate; climate change; humans; politics; risk; summer; temperature
Abstract:
... Climate variations influenced the agricultural productivity, health risk, and conflict level of preindustrial societies. Discrimination between environmental and anthropogenic impacts on past civilizations, however, remains difficult because of the paucity of high-resolution paleoclimatic evidence. We present tree ring-based reconstructions of central European summer precipitation and temperature ...
DOI:
10.1126/science.1197175

2. A late Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction from Agua Caliente, southern Belize, linked to regional climate variability and cultural change at the Maya polity of Uxbenká

Author:
Megan K. Walsh; Keith M. Prufer; Brendan J. Culleton; Douglas J. Kennett
Source:
Quaternary research 2014 v.82 no.1 pp. 38-50
ISSN:
0033-5894
Subject:
Holocene epoch; charcoal; climate; drought; forests; freshwater; humans; land use; paleoclimatology; paleoecology; politics; pollen; shifting cultivation; Belize
Abstract:
... We report high-resolution macroscopic charcoal, pollen and sedimentological data for Agua Caliente, a freshwater lagoon located in southern Belize, and infer a late Holocene record of human land-use/climate interactions for the nearby prehistoric Maya center of Uxbenká. Land-use activities spanning the initial clearance of forests for agriculture through the drought-linked Maya collapse and contin ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.yqres.2014.01.013

3. A long hard road… Reviewing the evidence for environmental change and population history in the eastern Adriatic and western Balkans during the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene

Author:
Suzanne E. Pilaar Birch; Marc Vander Linden
Source:
Quaternary international 2018 v.465 pp. 177-191
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
climate; climate change; domestication; herding; human population; humans; landscapes; lifestyle; mountains; paleoecology; palynology; plants (botany); politics; population distribution; sea level; surveys; Asia; Balkans; Central European region; Iberian Peninsula; Italy; Middle East
Abstract:
... The eastern Adriatic and western Balkans are key areas for assessing the environmental and population history of Europe during the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene. It has been argued that the Balkan region served as a Late Glacial refugium for humans, animals, and plants, much like Iberia and the Italian Peninsula and in contrast to the harsh conditions of Eastern and Central Europe. As post-g ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2016.12.035

4. A multi-level perspective on climate risks and drivers of entrepreneurial robustness – Findings from sectoral comparison in alpine Austria

Author:
Ulrike Meinel; Bruno Abegg
Source:
Global environmental change 2017 v.44 pp. 68-82
ISSN:
0959-3780
Subject:
case studies; climate; climate change; engineering; entrepreneurship; humans; managers; manufacturing; politics; risk perception; supply chain; surveys; temperature; Austria
Abstract:
... Recent works on organizational adaptation to climate change have repeatedly stressed that – despite concerns about large-scale impacts of climate change on supply chain networks – studies on climate change adaptation in manufacturing industries are still surprisingly scarce. The following study develops a systemic analytical framework based on which climate risks for manufacturing industries are r ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2017.03.006

5. A one hundred year review of the socioeconomic and ecological systems of Lake St. Clair, North America

Author:
Melissa M. Baustian; Georgia Mavrommati; Erin A. Dreelin; Peter Esselman; Steven R. Schultze; Leilei Qian; Tiong Gim Aw; Lifeng Luo; Joan B. Rose
Source:
Journal of Great Lakes research 2014 v.40 pp. 15-26
ISSN:
0380-1330
Subject:
Dreissena polymorpha; aquatic ecosystems; case studies; climate; climate change; coastal water; drinking water; ecosystem services; human health; humans; issues and policy; lakes; land use; models; mussels; people; politics; pollution; population growth; population size; risk; wastewater treatment; waterborne diseases; watersheds; Great Lakes region; North America
Abstract:
... There is a growing concern about continued impairment of aquatic ecosystems resulting from increasing population size, land use, climate change, and the feedbacks that may harm human well-being. We describe a 100year multi-disciplinary overview of changes in Lake St. Clair, North America to identify knowledge gaps and needs to build the foundation for creating coupled human and natural system mode ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.jglr.2013.11.006

6. A technique for scenario prediction of changes in water balance components in northern river basins in the context of possible climate change

Author:
E. M. Gusev; O. N. Nasonova
Source:
Water resources 2013 v.40 no.4 pp. 426-440
ISSN:
0097-8078
Subject:
basins; climate; climate change; evaporation; heat; humans; politics; prediction; rivers; runoff; watersheds
Abstract:
... A method is developed for scenario prediction of changes in water balance components in northern river basins in the context of possible climate changes. The method uses the land surface model SWAP, describing the heat and mass exchange between the land surface and the atmosphere. Four IPCC climate scenarios, corresponding to specified scenarios of economic, technological, political, and demograph ...
DOI:
10.1134/S0097807813040040

7. A “precariously unprepared” Pentagon? Climate security beliefs and decision-making in the U.S. military

Author:
Mackenzie Burnett; Katharine J. Mach
Source:
Global environmental change 2021 v.70 pp. 102345
ISSN:
0959-3780
Subject:
climate; climate change; data collection; decision making; humans; leadership; politics
Abstract:
... Increasing evidence suggests that climate change poses direct and indirect threats to national and human security. However, the degree to which such knowledge of the risks informs decision-making remains poorly understood for key security communities, including the U.S. Department of Defense. Here, through document analysis and interviews with climate security researchers and practitioners from th ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102345

8. Adaptation in Canadian Agriculture to Climatic Variability and Change

Author:
Christopher R. Bryant; Barry Smit; Michael Brklacich; Thomas R. Johnston; John Smithers; Quentin Chjotti; Bhawan Singh
Source:
Climatic change 2000 v.45 no.1 pp. 181-201
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
climate; climate change; farmers; humans; politics; risk
Abstract:
... The effects of climatic variability and change on Canadian agriculture have become an important research field since the early 1980s. In this paper, we seek to synthesize this research, focusing on agricultural adaptation, a purposeful proactive or reactive response to changes associated with climate, and influenced by many factors. A distinctive feature of methods used in research on adaptation i ...
DOI:
10.1023/A:1005653320241

9. Adaptation to climate change and climate variability: The importance of understanding agriculture as performance

Author:
T.A. Crane; C. Roncoli; G. Hoogenboom
Source:
Netherlands journal of agricultural science 2011 v.57 no.3-4 pp. 179-185
ISSN:
1573-5214
Subject:
agricultural management models; climate; climate change; farmers; humans; politics; risk management; weather forecasting; Mali; Southeastern United States
Abstract:
... Most climate change studies that address potential impacts and potential adaptation strategies are largely based on modelling technologies. While models are useful for visualizing potential future outcomes and evaluating options for potential adaptation, they do not adequately represent and integrate adaptive human agency. Richards’ concept of ‘agriculture as performance’ is useful in counterbalan ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.njas.2010.11.002

10. Adapting drinking-water systems to coastal climate change: evidence from Viet Nam and the Philippines

Author:
Edema Ojomo; Jamie Bartram
Source:
Regional environmental change 2016 v.16 no.8 pp. 2409-2418
ISSN:
1436-3798
Subject:
climate; climate change; coasts; drinking water; government agencies; humans; interviews; leadership; managers; planning; politics; storms; water utilities; Philippines; Vietnam
Abstract:
... Coastal areas will increasingly experience adverse climate hazards such as coastal flooding and severe storms as a result of climate change. These hazards adversely affect drinking-water systems and thereby reduce access to safe drinking-water. Effective adaptation implementation minimizes the damaging impacts of these hazards. However, research on the enablers of and barriers to effective adaptat ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10113-016-0965-8

11. Agricultural Land-Use Changes in the Judean Region from the End of the Ottoman Empire to the End of the British Mandate: A Spatial Analysis

Author:
Gad Schaffer
Source:
ISPRS international journal of geo-information 2021 v.10 no.5 pp. -
ISSN:
2220-9964
Subject:
climate; geography; humans; olives; politics; spatial data
Abstract:
... Vines and olives are two important and widespread traditional agricultural crops that are also connected to the Judeo–Christian–Muslim tradition. The goal of the research was to demonstrate the importance of using cartographical sources to obtain a more accurate and complete view of the past. To this end, the aims were: (1) to reconstruct the former agricultural land-use in three periods, 1873–187 ...
DOI:
10.3390/ijgi10050319

12. Ambition in the making: analysing the preparation and implementation process of the Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement

Author:
Frauke Röser; Oscar Widerberg; Niklas Höhne; Thomas Day
Source:
Climate policy 2020 v.20 no.4 pp. 415-429
ISSN:
1752-7457
Subject:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; climate; developing countries; environmental policy; humans; politics; stakeholders; surveys
Abstract:
... Nearly all the world’s governments have prepared and submitted their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), setting out their climate pledges under the 2015 Paris Agreement. These NDCs are to be regularly updated, and many countries are expected to submit a new NDC in 2020. While several studies have assessed the content and potential impacts of the NDCs, this article focusses on the preparat ...
DOI:
10.1080/14693062.2019.1708697

13. An IPCC that listens: introducing reciprocity to climate change communication

Author:
Karl Dudman; Sara de Wit
Source:
Climatic change 2021 v.168 no.1-2 pp. 2
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; climate; climate change; gloves; governance; humans; models; politics; social sciences
Abstract:
... As the epistemic hand in the UNFCCC’S political glove, the IPCC is charged with furnishing the global dialogues with ‘reliable knowledge’ on climate change. Much has been written about how this body of scientific information can be communicated more effectively to a diverse public, but considerably less so on the role communication might play in making the IPCC itself more receptive to alternative ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-021-03186-x

14. An energy-based macroeconomic model validated by global historical series since 1820

Author:
Hervé Bercegol; Henri Benisty
Source:
Ecological economics 2022 v.192 pp. 107253
ISSN:
0921-8009
Subject:
climate; ecological economics; gross domestic product; human capital; humans; labor; macroeconomics; models; politics; primary energy
Abstract:
... Global historical series spanning the last two centuries recently became available for primary energy consumption (PEC) and gross domestic product (GDP). Based on a thorough analysis of the data, we propose a new, simple macroeconomic model whereby physical power is fueling economic power. From 1820 to 1920, the linearity between global PEC and world GDP justifies basic equations where, importantl ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.107253

15. An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals

Author:
Thomas Hornick; Anett Richter; William Stanley Harpole; Maximilian Bastl; Stephanie Bohlmann; Aletta Bonn; Jan Bumberger; Peter Dietrich; Birgit Gemeinholzer; Rüdiger Grote; Bernd Heinold; Alexander Keller; Marie L. Luttkus; Patrick Mäder; Elena Motivans Švara; Sarah Passonneau; Surangi W. Punyasena; Demetra Rakosy; Ronny Richter; Wiebke Sickel; Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter; Panagiotis Theodorou; Regina Treudler; Barbora Werchan; Matthias Werchan; Ralf Wolke; Susanne Dunker
Source:
Plants, people, planet 2022 v.4 no.2 pp. 110-121
ISSN:
2572-2611
Subject:
climate; environmental health; food safety; humans; people; phenotype; politics; pollen; space and time; sustainable development; wind
Abstract:
... Societal Impact Statement Pollen relates to many aspects of human and environmental health, which protection and improvement are endorsed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By highlighting these connections in the frame of current challenges in monitoring and research, we discuss the need of more integrative and multidisciplinary pollen research related to societal needs, improvi ...
DOI:
10.1002/ppp3.10234

16. Animal mobility, human mobility: A geopolitical of sheep in Armenia

Author:
Michael Thevenin
Source:
Quaternary international 2021 v.579 pp. 99-114
ISSN:
1040-6182
Subject:
Russia; USSR; alcohol abuse; anthropology; chilled meats; climate; coasts; earthquakes; exports; globalization; grasses; humans; markets; meat; politics; sheep; slaughter; surveys; transhumance; villages; Armenia; Middle East
Abstract:
... The ethnographic mission to Armenia carried out by the NHASA International Associated Laboratory (LIA France-Armenia) was established to observe the pastoral practices of Yezidi and Armenian herders in a territory affected by the 1988 earthquake, the collapse of the USSR and the period of independence, and the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. The political and geographical stakes prevailing in this coun ...
DOI:
10.1016/j.quaint.2020.10.071

17. Are human values and community participation key to climate adaptation? The case of community forest organisations in British Columbia

Author:
Ella Furness; Harry Nelson
Source:
Climatic change 2016 v.135 no.2 pp. 243-259
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
climate; climate change; community service; forests; humans; politics; surveys; British Columbia
Abstract:
... This study develops a multidisciplinary framework composed of a range of determinants of adaptive capacity to climate change found in economic, sociological, political, geographical and psychological literature. The framework is then used to carry out a survey of community managed forest organisations to measure their adaptive capacity and establish the characteristics that enable their adaptation ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-015-1564-2

18. Balancing a budget or running a deficit? The offset regime of carbon removal and solar geoengineering under a carbon budget

Author:
Shinichiro Asayama; Mike Hulme; Nils Markusson
Source:
Climatic change 2021 v.167 no.1-2 pp. 25
ISSN:
0165-0009
Subject:
adverse effects; carbon; carbon dioxide; climate; climate change; cooling; environmental engineering; geophysics; global carbon budget; greenhouse gases; humans; politics; temperature
Abstract:
... The idea of the carbon budget is a powerful conceptual tool to define and quantify the climate challenge. Whilst scientists present the carbon budget as the geophysical foundation for global net-zero targets, the financial metaphor of a budget implies figuratively the existence of a ‘budget manager’ who oversees the budget balance. Using this fictive character of budget manager as a heuristic devi ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10584-021-03174-1

19. Boundary politics and the social imaginary for sustainable food systems

Author:
Kim L. Niewolny
Source:
Agriculture and human values 2021 v.38 no.3 pp. 621-624
ISSN:
0889-048X
Subject:
agricultural sciences; agriculture; climate; collective action; gender; humans; issues and policy; politics; social justice; society
Abstract:
... In this essay, Kim Niewolny, current President of AFHVS, responds to the 2020 AFHVS Presidential Address given by Molly Anderson. Niewolny is encouraged by Anderson’s message of moving “beyond the boundaries” by focusing our gaze on the insurmountable un-sustainability of the globalized food system. Anderson recommends three ways forward to address current challenges. Niewolny argues that building ...
DOI:
10.1007/s10460-021-10214-0

20. Cause and response: vulnerability and climate in the Anthropocene

Author:
Jesse Ribot
Source:
Journal of peasant studies 2014 v.41 no.5 pp. 667-705
ISSN:
1743-9361
Subject:
assets; climate; climate change; humans; people; politics; poverty; public policy; risk analysis; society
Abstract:
... Causal analysis of vulnerability aims to identify root causes of crises so that transformative solutions might be found. Yet root-cause analysis is absent from most climate response assessments. Framings for climate-change risk analysis often locate causality in hazards while attributing some causal weight to proximate social variables such as poverty or lack of capacity. They rarely ask why capac ...
DOI:
10.1080/03066150.2014.894911