Climate Vulnerability
Understanding and Addressing Threats to Essential Resources
Editor-in-Chief:- Roger A. Pielke, Sr., Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), University of Colorado, USA
Climate change has been the subject of thousands of books and magazines, scientific journals, and newspaper articles daily. Its a subject that can be very political and emotional, often blurring the lines between fact and fiction. The vast majority of research, studies, projections and recommendations tend to focus on the human influence on climate change and global warming as the result of CO2 emissions, often to the exclusion of other threats that include population growth and the stress placed on energy sources due to emerging global affluence.
Climate Vulnerability seeks to strip away the politics and emotion that surround climate change and will assess the broad range of threats using the bottom up approach-including CO2 emissions, population growth, emerging affluence, and many others-to our five most critical resources: water, food, ecosystems, energy, and human health. Inclusively determining what these threats are while seeking preventive measures and adaptations is at the heart of this unique reference work.
Audience
Academic, Government and Corporatee Scientists and Researchers from the following disciplines: Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Food Science, Earth & Environmental Sciences, and Engineering, who are interested in climate change.
Hardbound, 1440 Pages
Published: May 2013
Imprint: Academic Press
ISBN: 978-0-12-384703-4
Contents
Vulnerability of Human Health to Climate
1.11 The emergence of the climate change and human health discussion: a keyword analysis
1.3 Extreme weather events
1.4 Stratospheric ozone depletion1.5 Sea level rise and coastal inundation
1.6 Impact of environmental change on ecosystem services and human wellbeing in southern Africa1.9 Biodiversity loss and ecosystem function
1.14 Climate change health effects, risks and impacts with focus on food-borne diseases and nutrition1.15 Heat related morbidity and mortality
1.16 Climate change, urban air pollution and respiratory allergy1.17 Precipitation and flood hazards
1.25 HIV, TB and malnutrition1.20 Occupational health
1.21 Cold related morbidity and mortality1.26 Vulnerable countries
1.24 Reducing human exposure and vulnerability through improved risk communication and public health educationVulnerability of Food Resources to Climate
2.3 Corn2.4 Soybean
2.6 Rice2.8 Fruits and Strawberries
2.14 International Fishery2.16 Climate and other vulnerabilities impacting Poultry Industry
2.17 Animal Production/Pork2.21 Mediterranean agriculture
2.23 Retrospective droughts, heat spells, and other stressors: impacts and implications for corn and soybean yields in the Midwest2.24 Assessing vulnerabilities and adaptation approach - useful to usable tools
2.27 Vulnerabilities to AgroEconomies with focus over India2.28 Amazon focus
2.33 Role of engineering plants for abiotic stresses2.34 Blending the local scale information for developing agricultural sustainability
2.38 WetlandsVulnerability of Energy to Climate
3.2 Climate Change and Energy Vulnerability in Coastal Regions3.4 Vulnerabilities of energy resources and resource availability - Fossil fuels (Oil, coal, natural gas, oil shale)
3.10 Renewable Energy Resources - Onshore/Offshore Wind Energy3.11 Renewable Energy Resources - Ocean Energy: Wind/Wave/Tidal/Sea Currents
3.12 Renewable Energy Resources - Biomass (Land and Water)3.9 Renewable energy resources - solar energy
3.16 Intrastructure and vulnerability due to climate3.17 Climate change and Energy Production - feedback and interation with adaptation
3.18 Energy markets3.27 Transmission Grid
3.19 Energy Networks3.20 Renewable Energy and Water Resources
3.21 Energy, Buildings and Urban Environment3.22 Transportation and energy
3.23 Large energy projects, efficiency and vulnerabilityVulnerability of Ecosystems to Climate
4.1 Introduction/overview: The importance of ecosystem functions and services4.2 Land use change
4.3 Nitrogen deposition4.4 Carbon dioxide enrichment
4.5 Invasive plants and animal species4.6 Emergent pathogens and diseases
4.9 Extreme weather events4.10 Energy exchange and regulation
4.11 Climate regulation by ecosystems - Controls on carbon storage in terrestrial ecosystems4.14 Controls on provisioning services - Food and fiber
4.16 Pollination and biodiversity4.15 Controls on provisioning services - Forest productivity
4.17 Controls on provisioning services - Rangeland productivity4.19 Coastal protection and flood mitigation
4.23 Biodiversity - Aquatic Food web structure and stability4.24 Biodiversity - Terrestrial Food web structure and stability
4.25 Aesthetics, Recreation and Ecotourism4.26 Desertification of rangelands
4.27 Vulnerability of coral reefs4.32 Cumulative risk to ecosystem function
4.36 Mitigation and Adaptation4.37 Vulnerability of terrestrial biodiversity
4.38 Vulnerability of estuaries4.39 Vulnerability and adaptation in the Arctic
4.40 Climate sensitivity of the ski industryVulnerability of Water Resources to Climate
5.1 Factors affecting recent trends in global extreme precipitation patterns5.2 Epitomes Toward An Integrated Theoretical And Modeling Framework To Mitigate Climage Change In Coastal Ecosystems
5.3 Factors affecting precipitation patterns in urban landscapes5.4 Orographic precipitation and water resources management in mountainous regions
5.5 Hydrological risk management5.6 Global water use/sustainability in deltaic environments
5.8 Vulnerability-based Flood Mapping5.9 Urban water resources management for the 21st century
5.12 Remote Sensing of Precipitation for Water Resources Management in Semi-Arid Regions5.14 Pacific Northwest - Sustainability of hydropower generation in North America: Comparison with other renewal options
5.17 Eastern Africa - Water resources of East Africa5.18 West Africa - Water resources vulnerability using a Multi-dimensional approach: Case study of Volta Basin
5.19 South America (Amazon) - Rainfall patterns and forest logging5.20 South Asia - Surface hydrologic controls of public health in coastal regions of South Asia
5.21 South Asia - Changing patterns of water availablity due to large scale groundwater extraction in South Asia5.22 South America - Snow pack trends and implications on water supply for the Andes.
5.24 Europe - Natural Hazards assessment in mountainous terrains of Europe5.26 Arctic - Changing discharge patterns of Arctic Rivers
5.27 China - Water resources of China under high development stress5.28 Climate change adaptation strategies for water resources management in Bangladesh
5.31 North Africa. Nubian Sandstone Aquifers: History, Consumption, Recharge and Sustainability5.36 Flood Inundation and Crop Damage Mapping and the Impact on Rural Income and Migration for Humid Deltas: Case Study on Bangladesh
5.38 Case studies of Adaptation against Water Resource: Vulnerability for the Netherlands from Climate and non-Climate Scenarios5.39 Paleo-climate record Analysis for Understanding the Tropical Hydrologic Cycle in Abrupt Climate Change
5.40 Water resources vulnerability in the context of rapid urbanization of Dhaka city (a south Asian mega city)
