GGR314H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptive Capacity, Maternal Death
13 Sep 2016
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Chapter 10: climate change impacts on human systems. Climate change impacts: phenomena that occur as a result of rising temperatures and shifting precipitation patterns. Observations indicate that impacts already occurring, ranging from increasing drought to rising sea levels and shifting patterns of ecosystem distribution. Natural impacts have human implications (reduced availability of drinking water, food shortages, floods in low-lying places, prolonged heat waves) Vulnerability to climate change determined by number of factors, including exposure to particular impacts and capacity to adapt. Adaptation = proactive or reactive, long history of reactive adaptation, but proactive requires better understanding of the scale and distribution of climate change impacts as well as new and effective response strategies. Range of impacts of climate change in both developing and developed countries. Explore the ways climate change is already affecting food systems, availability and quality of water, infrastructure and housing, etc. Influence that poverty and global inequality has on our vulnerability to climate change.
