Climate Change and Its Impacts

✍ Scribed by Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, Robert McKim

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 271
• Series: Climate Change Management
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Responding to a need for a deeper and more nuanced understanding of the consequences of climate change, this book brings experts in climate science, engineering, urban planning, and conservation biology into conversation with scholars in law, geography, anthropology and ethics. It provides insights into how climate change is conceptualized in different fields. The book also aims to contribute to developing successful and multifaceted strategies that promote global, intergenerational and environmental justice. Among the topics addressed are the effects of climate change on the likelihood and magnitude of natural hazards, an assessment of civil infrastructure vulnerabilities, resilience assessment for coastal communities, an ethical framework to evaluate behavior that contributes to climate change, as well as policies and cultural shifts that might help humanity to respond adequately to climate change.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-vi
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Risks and Values: New and Interconnected Challenges of Climate Change (Colleen Murphy, Paolo Gardoni, Robert McKim)....Pages 3-11
Front Matter ....Pages 13-13
Climate Change in the 21st Century: Looking Beyond the Paris Agreement (Donald J. Wuebbles)....Pages 15-38
Cumulative Harm as a Function of Carbon Emissions (John Nolt)....Pages 39-52
Justice in Mitigation After Paris (Darrel Moellendorf)....Pages 53-68
Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and Climate Change: A Brief Introduction (Matthew D. Adler)....Pages 69-89
Front Matter ....Pages 91-91
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Hurricane Hazards (David V. Rosowsky)....Pages 93-107
Climate Change, Heavy Precipitation and Flood Risk in the Western United States (Eric P. Salathé Jr., Guillaume Mauger)....Pages 109-127
The Impact of Climate Change on Resilience of Communities Vulnerable to Riverine Flooding (Xianwu Xue, Naiyu Wang, Bruce R. Ellingwood, Ke Zhang)....Pages 129-144
Planning for Community Resilience Under Climate Uncertainty (Ross B. Corotis)....Pages 145-159
Front Matter ....Pages 161-161
Climate Change Governance and Local Democracy: Synergy or Dissonance (Emmanuel O. Nuesiri)....Pages 163-180
Sea Level Rise and Social Justice: The Social Construction of Climate Change Driven Migrations (Elizabeth Marino)....Pages 181-193
Recovery After Disasters: How Adaptation to Climate Change Will Occur (Robert B. Olshansky)....Pages 195-207
Front Matter ....Pages 209-209
The Climate-Change Challenge to Human-Drawn Boundaries (Eric T. Freyfogle)....Pages 211-232
Neoliberal (Mis)Management of Earth-Time and the Ethics of Climate Justice (Michael S. Northcott)....Pages 233-250
Human Capital in a Climate-Changed World (Shi-Ling Hsu)....Pages 251-268
A Wild Solution for Climate Change (Thomas E. Lovejoy)....Pages 269-276

✦ Subjects

Environment; Climate Change; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts; International Environmental Law; Environmental Economics; Environmental Sociology; Environmental Philosophy