This chapter is primarily an extensive literature review on the climate change-induced environmental hazards and their impact on the ecosystem and human livelihoods in the Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh. In addition, this chapter also provides a detailed account of the recent cyclonic storm Aila ...
This poses an interesting paradox: “On the one hand, reducing the vulnerability of local communities to natural hazards needs to take into account climate change, on the other hand, the most effective vulnerability reduction often takes place locally” (Schipper and Pelling, 2006). When aiming ...
One of the most destructive natural hazards, tropical cyclone (TC)–induced coastal flooding, will worsen under climate change. Here we conduct climatology–hydrodynamic modeling to quantify the effects of sea level rise (SLR) and TC climatology change (under RCP 8.5) on late 21st century flood ...
Assessment of Climate Change-Induced Hazards, Impacts and Responses in the Southern Lowlands of Ethiopia; Forum for Social Studies: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2009. [Google Scholar] Osman, M.A.A.; Onono, J.O.; Olaka, L.A.; Elhag, M.M.; Abdel-Rahman, E.M. Climate Variability and ...
McKinsey research shows that the value at stake from climate-induced hazards could, conservatively, increase from about 2 percent of global GDP to more than 4 percent of global GDP in 2050. And the risks associated with climate change are multiplying. They vary by locale, e...
Climate change is projected to drive renewed spongy moth attacks on North American forests For almost 30 years, an insect fungal disease has repressed defoliation caused by the spongy moth in North American hardwood forests. The fungus needs cool, moist weather, but computer models project that the...
mitigate climate change by acting as carbon sinks, but they also buffer against climate-related hazards coupled to sea-level rise and increasing frequency and intensity of storms by protecting against erosion andflooding. At the same time, as highlighted throughout this chapter, these habitats are ...
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The methodology provides prioritisation and ranking of the different impacts as perceived by the fishers on various climate change induced hazards. The vulnerability scores were worked out for the fisher households. The fisher's perception revealed that the traditional fishermen are the most vulnerable ...
future climate change-induced risks, but are already affecting vulnerable populations disproportionately now. Results Climate change-induced impacts of Hurricane Harvey To determine the relative share of flood impacts during Hurricane Harvey attributable to climate change, we calculated climate change-attribute...