Geography of Climate Change

Richard Aspinall, Richard John Aspinall

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780415696623
• eBook ISBN: 9781135756758
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

Climate change is one of the inescapable themes of current times. Climate change confronts society in issues as diverse as domestic and international political debate and negotiation, discussion in the media and public opinion, land management choices and decisions, and concerns about environmental, social and economic priorities now and for the future. Climate change also spans spatial, temporal and organisational scales, and has strong links with nature-society relationships, environmental dynamics, and vulnerability. Understanding the full range of possible consequences of climate change is essential for informed decision making and debate.

This book provides a collection of chapters that span environmental, social and economic aspects of climate change. Together the chapters provide a diverse and contrasting series that highlights the need to analyze, review and debate climate change and its possible impacts and consequences from multiple perspectives. The book also is intended to promote discussion and debate of a more integrated, inclusive and open approach to climate change and demonstrates the value of geography in addressing climate change issues.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• 1. Geographical Perspectives on Climate Change
• 2. Beyond Adapting to Climate Change: Embedding Adaptation in Responses to Multiple Threats and Stresses
• 3. Changes in Annual Land-Surface Precipitation Over the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century
• 4. The Changing Geography of the U.S. Water Budget: Twentieth-Century Patterns and Twenty-First-Century Projections
• 5. The Columbian Encounter and the Little Ice Age: Abrupt Land Use Change, Fire, and Greenhouse Forcing
• 6. Climate Change and Mountain Topographic Evolution in the Central Karakoram, Pakistan
• 7. Climate Change and Tropical Andean Glacier Recession: Evaluating Hydrologic Changes and Livelihood Vulnerability in the Cordillera Blanca, Peru
• 8. Climate–Streamflow Linkages in the North-Central Rocky Mountains: Implications for a Changing Climate
• 9. Adapting to Climate Change in Andean Ecosystems: Landscapes, Capitals, and Perceptions Shaping Rural Livelihood Strategies and Linking Knowledge Systems
• 10. Making Sense of Twenty-First-Century Climate Change in the Altiplano: Observed Trends and CMIP3 Projections
• 11. Parameterization of Urban Characteristics for Global Climate Modeling
• 12. Climatic Shifts in the Availability of Contested Waters: A Long-Term Perspective from the Headwaters of the North Platte River
• 13. Climate Change, Drought, and Jamaican Agriculture: Local Knowledge and the Climate Record
• 14. Modeling Path Dependence in Agricultural Adaptation to Climate Variability and Change
• 15. Joint Effects of Marine Intrusion and Climate Change on the Mexican Avifauna
• 16. Adapting Across Boundaries: Climate Change, Social Learning, and Resilience in the U.S.–Mexico Border Region
• 17. Climate, Carbon, and Territory: Greenhouse Gas Mitigation in Seattle, Washington
• 18. Potential Impacts of Climate Change on Flood-Induced Travel Disruptions: A Case Study of Portland, Oregon, USA
• 19. Constructing Carbon Market Spacetime: Climate Change and the Onset of Neo-Modernity
• 20. Climate Change and the Global Financial Crisis: A Case of Double Exposure
• 21. Integrity of the Emerging Global Markets in Greenhouse Gases
• 22. Climate Change, Capitalism, and the Challenge of Transdisciplinarity
• 23. Contested Sovereignty in a Changing Arctic
• 24. Kiavallakkikput Agviq (Into the Whaling Cycle): Cetaceousness and Climate Change Among the Iñupiat of Arctic Alaska
• 25. Benchmarking the War Against Global Warming
• 26. Regional Initiatives: Scaling the Climate Response and Responding to Conceptions of Scale
• Index