Climate change global warming continues despite continuous denial. Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace, vol 4. Introduction an environmental problem arises whenever there is a change in the quality or quantity of any environmental factor which directly or indirectly affects the health and wellbeing of man in an adverse manner. Detailed results and individual references cannot be presented here. To understand global environmental change, it is necessary to focus on the interactions of environmental systems, including the atmosphere, the biosphere, the geosphere, and the hydrosphere, and human systems, including economic, political, cultural, and sociotechnical systems. Citescore values are based on citation counts in a given year e. The urgency of the challenges facing all economies, from climate change to ecological losses, allied to the need to deliver growth, over come poverty and. Human systems and environmental systems meet in two places. Volume 23, issue 1 pages 94 february 20 download full issue. How digitalborn media cover climate change in comparison to legacy media. Climate change represents one of the most serious and farreaching challenges facing humankind in the twentyfirst century. Facing global environmental change environmental, human. Most downloaded global environmental change articles.
The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the nobel. Anthropology of climate change research papers academia. The international community is encountering significant challenges as a consequence of global environmental change, which is apparently resulting from modern human activities, in particular the. Facing global environmental change and sectorialization of security. As a spoiler, we show that the pause is not really a thing. Hexagon series on human and environmental security and peace series editor. These five megatrends present major global threats for planet earth problems that must be solved if the world is to remain a supportive habitat for humans and other species.
View articles published in global environmental change. The journal interprets global environmental change to mean the outcome of processes that are manifest in. The task of synthesising a decade of global change research has been daunting, but the rewards have been great. International perspectives on global environmental change. Conferenceofthepartiestotheunited nationsframeworkconventiononclimate change. Multidimensional stress test for hydropower investments facing climate, geophysical and. Global environmental change and food systems in southern africa. Vulnerability is driven by inadvertent or deliberate human. View anthropology of climate change research papers on academia. Local perceptions, understandings, and explanations article pdf available in ecology and society 2. Environmental problems can be studied from two different viewpoints. First, it is widely noted that vulnerability to environmental change does not exist in isolation from the wider political economy of resource use. Global environmental change vol 23, issue 1, pages 94.
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