International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses

Anfang 20. Apr 2018
Ende 21. Apr 2018
Dauer 2 days
Ort Berkeley

The Tenth International Conference on Climate Change: Impacts & Responses features research addressing the following themes:

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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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