International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses
Anfang 20. Apr 2018
Ende 21. Apr 2018
Dauer 2 days
Ort Berkeley
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2018 Special Focus: Engaging with Policy on Climate Change
The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses features research addressing the following themes:
Scientific Evidence
- Paleoclimatology: the earth’s climate in a long view
- Climate change today: examining the data
- Ice cap reduction and glacial melt
- Sea level change
- Floods, drought, forest fires, hurricanes, and other sporadic events
- Albedo or measuring the earth’s reflectiveness
- Meteorology and climate informatics
- Equilibria and disequilbria: change processes and countervailing tendencies
- Climate measurement processes, methodologies, and technologies
- Reading complex, dynamic, and unstable systems
- Developing local and global climate models
- Change scenarios: slow, rapid, abrupt, or episodic
Assessing Impacts in Divergent Ecosystems
- Ocean currents and el Niño
- Riverine ecosystem impacts
- Mountain ecosystem impacts
- Coastal ecosystem impacts
- Marine ecosystem impacts
- Forest and grassland ecosystem impacts
- Impacts on wilderness and protected areas
- Impacts on specific biomes
- Impacts on biodiversity, potential extinctions
- Hardiness zone migration
- Regional variations: temperature and rainfall
Human Impacts and Impacts on Humans
- Anthropogenic factors in climate change: determining the relative contribution of natural and human causes
- Impacts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
- Land use patterns, agriculture, and livestock husbandry and deforestation as factors in climate change
- Impacts on humans: agriculture, fish stocks, food supply, health
- Human settlements and sea level rise
- Impacts on humans: water supply, desertification
- Impacts on humans of intense weather events, natural disasters, and ecological surprises
- Impacts of climate change in the developing world
Technical, Political, and Social Responses
- Environmental policies in response to climate change
- Controversy and denial: politics, the media, and scientists with dissenting views
- The international politics of climate change
- The past, present, and future of international agreements
- Education and awareness for management of global climate change
- Protected areas and preservation of biodiversity: "corridoring" and other strategies
- Strategies for sustainability
- Human adaptive strategies
- Technologies of mitigation: carbon dioxide sequestration, solar shades, and other processes
- Alternative and renewable energy sources: technologies, policies, and strategies
- Carbon taxes, offsets, and trading
- Emission standards
- Climate ethics and the precautionary principle
- Eco-development, eco-efficiency
Organizer: Climate Change: Impacts & Responses Research Network
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