The Impacts of Climate Change

A Comprehensive Study of Physical, Biophysical, Social, and Political Issues

Trevor Letcher

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780128223734
• eBook ISBN: 9780128223741
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Public Health, Administration & Care
• Index: Biological Sciences

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. By offering this holistic review of the latest impacts of climate change, the book helps researchers to better understand what needs to be done in order to move toward renewable energy, change societal habits, and move toward sustainable development. - Offers comprehensive coverage of the impacts of climate change from multiple perspectives (physical, social, and political) to develop synergy across disciplines - Presents the latest research and developments on the understanding of climate change impacts on a variety of scales and disciplines - Includes case studies and extensive references for further exploration

Table of contents

• The Impacts of Climate Change
• Chapter 1 Why discuss the impacts of climate change?
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2 Impacts of climate change on economies, ecosystems, energy, environments, and human equity: A systems perspective
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 3 Climate change and melting glaciers
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 4 Climate change and terrestrial biodiversity
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 5 Effect of climate change on marine ecosystems
• 1: How climate change affects marine ecosystems
• Chapter 6 Natural disasters linked to climate change
• Chapter 7 Climate change and microbes
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 8 Effects of climate change on food production (fishing)
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 9 Effect of climate change on food production (animal products)
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 10 Emerging typology and framing of climate-resilient agriculture in South Asia☆
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 11 Social issues related to climate change and food production (crops)
• Chapter 12 Climate change and world population
• 1: Introduction
• 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
• 1: Introduction
• Chapter 17 Game theory and climate change
• 1: Introduction
• 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
• 1: Introduction
• 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
• Index