Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Transformation

ISBN-13: 9789819943890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Kousik Das Malakar;Manish Kumar;Subhash Anand

Opis

This book focuses on various psycho-social and socio-physical aspects of climate change and includes a wide range of case studies. Included topics are notable climate-related social thinking; climate vulnerability; transformation in socio-ecological subsystems; bioclimatological, urban bioclimatological and socio-bioclimatic ideas; disasters; policy instruments; climate justice; human rights; and sustainability. The book distinguishes itself from similar works by including a wide variety of topics and assists policy management in the current and upcoming climate crisis era. This book also addresses the Sustainable Development Goals 13 (Take Urgent Action to Combat Climate Change and Its Impacts), highlighting resilience, recovery potential and adaptive capacity, climate change measures integrated into policies and planning, and knowledge and capacity to mitigate climate change.The ideas covered in this book evolved in response to the current climate crisis, ideas that the authors believe will aid in societal management and development in the present and future. The book is a useful source for planners, geographers, professionals, academics, government officials, laypeople, and others interested in climate change.

Spis treści

 1. Introduction

1.1 Historical Background.

1.2 Climate and Ecology.

1.3 Integrated Social-Ecological System.

1.4 Socio-Ecological Transformation: Concepts and Theories.

1.5 Ecological Dimensions of Social Change and Social Dimensions of Ecological Change.

1.6 Climate and Climate Change as the Key to Socio-Ecological Transformation.

1.7 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

2. Climate, Climate Change Ecology and Socio-ecological Environments

2.1 Meteorology and Climatology.

2.2 Weather, Climate, and Climate Controls.

2.3 Fundamentals of Climate Change Ecology.

2.4 Climate Change, Climate Variability, and Evidences.

2.5 Climate Resilience, Mitigation, and Adaptation.

2.6 Climate Gap and Vulnerability.

2.7 Socio-Ecological Facts Regarding Climate Change:

2.7.1 Climate Crisis, 2.7.2 Climate Risk, 2.7.3 Physical Climate Risks, 2.7.4 Climate Change Transition Risk, 2.7.5 Climate Change Hotspot, 2.7.6 Climate Hazards, 2.7.7 Climate & Disaster Risk Screening, 2.7.8 Climate engineering, 2.7.9 Climate Kids, 2.7.10 Climate Communication, 2.7.11 Climate Governance, 2.7.12 Fossil Fuel Divestment, 2.7.13 Climate Bonds, 2.7.14 Global Climate regime, 2.7.15 Green Climate Fund, 2.7. 16 Climate Finance, 2.7.17 Climate Investment Fund, 2.7.18 The Adaptation Fund, 2.7.19 Climate Clock. 2.7.20 Weather and climate Modification.

2.8 Climate Change and its Impact on Socio-Ecological Environments.

2.9 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

3. Dimensions of the Socio-ecological Subsystems

3.1 Nature, Environment, Society and Ecology.

3.2 Integration and Interdisciplinary.

3.3 Socio-Ecological System and Socio-Biogeophysical Changes.

3.4 Ecological Subsystems and Landscapes.

3.5 Societal Subsystems and Landscapes.

3.6 Socio-ecological Facts: 3.6.1 Socio-ecological System and Demographic Aspects, 3.6.2 Socio-ecological System and Psycho-social Aspects, 3.6.3 Socio-ecological System and Socio-Physical Aspects, 3.6.4 Socio-ecological System and Suprapersonal Aspects, 3.6.5 Socio-ecological System and Social Climate Aspects, 3.6.6 Socio-ecological System and Cultural Climate Aspects, 3.6.7 Socio-ecological System and Political Climate Aspects, 3.6.8 Socio-ecological System and Emotional Climate Aspects, 3.6.9 Socio-ecological System and Intellectual Climate Aspects, 3.6.10 Ecological Civilization, 3.6.11 Environmental Citizenship, 3.6.12 Environmental Contract, 3.6.13 Environmental Politics, 3.6.14 Environmental Governance.

3.7 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

4. Climate Vulnerability and Socio-ecological Transformation

4.1 Vulnerability and Invulnerability.

4.2 Climate and Climate Change Vulnerability.

4.3 Ecological Vulnerability and Society.

4.4 Societal Vulnerability and Ecology.

4.5 Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Vulnerability.

4.6 Vulnerability and Transformation of Socio-Ecological Subsystems.

4.7 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

5. Bioclimatology and Urban Bioclimatology

5.1 Concepts and Classification of Bioclimatology.

5.2 Crucial Thinking of Bioclimatology: 5.2.1 Heat Balance and Human Body, 5.2.2 Radiation and Human Health, 5.2.3 Weather and Climate on Health, 5.2.4 Electrical conditions and Atmospheric potential gradient and Human Aspects. 5.2.5 Bioclimatology and COVID-19 Pandemic.

5.3 Climate Control: Indoor Vs. Outdoor.

5.4 Socio-bioclimatic Thinking: 5.4.1 Critical Socio-Bioclimatic Thinking of Climate and Sexual Aspects, 5.4.2 Critical Socio-bioclimatic Thinking of Migration and Mobility, 5.4.3 Critical Socio-bioclimatic Thinking of Tourism and Recreation

5.5 Urban bioclimatology in developing countries.

5.6 Hazard, Disaster and Bioclimatology.

5.7 Applied Human Bioclimatology and Issues.

5.8 Human Adaptation and Mitigation.

5.9 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

6. Disaster, Policy Instruments, and Sustainability

6.1 Environmental Hazard, Disaster and Management.

6.2 Climate Change and Socio-environmental Disaster.

6.3 Socio-Ecological Transformation and Environmental Disturbance.

6.4 Climate Concerns and Contemporary Socio-ecological Issues and Management.

6.5 Environmental Policy, Law, and Institutions.

6.6 Conventions, Policy Instruments, Movements, and Implication.

6.7 Sustainable Thinking, Sustainability and Development.

6.8 Conclusions and Arguments.

 

7. Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Transformation

7.1 Climate Change and Socio-Ecological Transformation

7.2 Socio-ecological Conjunction, Transformation, and Sustainability

7.2.1 Sundarban Mangrove-Reliant Traditional Marine Fishing Society as a Socio-Ecological System

7.2.2 Evidence of Climate Change/Variability in the Bengal Coastal Area

7.2.3 Assessment of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats and Coastal Environment Management Instruments in the Coastal Region of Medinipur

7.2.4 Mangrove-Human Conflicts in the Indian Sundarbans

7.2.5 Rural Lives, Livelihoods, and Challenges of Namkhana Block, West Bengal, India

7.2.6 Climate Change, Coastal Ecology, and Tourism in Coastal Digha

7.2.7 Monitoring of Surface Ecology

7.2.8 Vulnerability and Associated Drivers and the Impact Assessment

7.2.9 Vulnerability to Viability and Potential Drivers

7.2.10 Exploring Fishermen’s Traditional knowledge, Capabilities, and Perceptions

7.2.11 Multidimensional Vulnerabilities and Viability Pathways

7.2.12 Influence of Climate change on fish catching

7.2.13 Health problems due to climate change

7.2.14 Health-related coping mechanisms in the home

7.2.15 Household adaptation strategies for the effects of climate change

7.2.16 Climate Communication and Regional Spatiality

7.2.17 Political Ambivalence in Disaster Relief Distribution

7.2.18 Local Politics, Illegal Immigration, and Societal Transformation

7.2.19 Climate Change, Social Justice and Rights

7.2.20 Climate Justice and Socio-ecological Sustainability

7.3 Conclusions

 

8. Climate Change, Justice, and Rights

8.1 Climate Change and Gender Inequality: Double Injustice.

8.2 Climate Change, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

8.3 Climate Change is a War Crime.

8.4 Environmental Justice and Racism, Climate Justice, Resource Justice, and Eco justice.

8.5 Climate change and Human Rights, Earth Rights, Greenhouse Development Rights, Climate Change Litigation.

8.5 Conclusion and Arguments.

                

9. Climate Crisis and Socio-ecological Sustainability

9.1 Upcoming Crisis of Global Socio-Ecological Governance.

9.2 Upcoming Climate Concern/Thinking: 9.2.1 Climate Concern and Sustainable Thinking, 9.2.2 Sustainable Products, 9.2.3 Sustainable Living, 9.2.4 Sustainable Consumptions, 9.2.5 Greening, 9.2.6 Sustainable Refurbishment, 9.2.7 Sustainable Landscape Architecture, 9.2.8 Sustainable Design, 9.2.9 Ethical/Sustainable Bank, 9.2.10 Stranded Asset, 9.2.11 Eco-investing, 9.2.12 Global Environmental Facility, 9.2.13 Climate Debt, 9.2.14 Climate Change and Poverty, 9.2.15 Climate Change and Ecocide, 9.2.16 Climate scepticism and Climate Denier, 9.2.17 Climate Misinformation and Climate Disinformation, 9.2.18 Climate Action, 9.2.19 Climate Action Tracker, and 9.2.20 Action for Climate Empowerment.

9.3 Recent Focus: 9.3.1 Climate Ethics, 9.3.2 Climate Education, 9.3.3 Climate Leaders, and 9.3.4 Climate Change concern in Social Media.

9.4 Climate Change and Holocene Extinction.

9.5 Environmental Emergency and Climate Emergency.

9.6 Recovery Potential, Adaptive Capacity, and the Sustainability of Socio-Ecological Systems.

 

O autorze

Mr. Malakar is a young researcher, GIS analyst, geographer, and socio-ecological demographer. He currently works as a doctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at the Central University of Haryana in India. He received his master's degree in geography from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He has attended over 150 conferences, workshops, seminars, and webinars in his research area and has published research articles in national and international journals. He is a journal reviewer and a member of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), Unequal World and International Society for Urban Health. His research interests include climate change and socio-ecological transformation, disaster and risk studies, and geospatial technology.

Manish Kumar currently works as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, School of Basic Sciences, Central University of Haryana, Mahendragarh, India. Earlier, from January 2016 to February 2020, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Kalindi College, University of Delhi. Prior to that, from January 2009 to December 2014, he was a lecturer in the M.Sc. remote sensing and GIS course of Kumaun University, Nainital, India. He has also worked as a research associate in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) project on “rurbanization”. In addition, he has been a visiting faculty member at the School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi. He holds a Ph.D. degree from Kumaun University and a postgraduate diploma in remote sensing and GIS from the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS) of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Dehradun. He is also a steering member of the International Geographical Union (IGU) Commission on Modeling Geographical Systems. He has published more than 25 research papers in various national and international Science Citation Index and Scopus-indexed journals. His special area of research interest includes the application of remote sensing and GIS in urban and regional planning, land use and land cover dynamics, and urban climate change, among others.

Prof. Subhash Anand has been a professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, since 2015. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research, and he has authored and edited 7 books, including Water Science and Sustainability, Global Geographical Heritage, Geoparks and Geotourism and Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, all published by Springer. He is a Springer series editor of Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences. He has also published more than 70 research papers, articles, and chapters in various books and journals. He led the Indian delegation to Hiroshima University, Japan, under the Indo-Japan Joint Research Program. He has supervised 6 Ph.D. and 7 M.Phil. theses. He has traveled widely to participate in international conferences and lectures in many countries, and he is a vice-chair of the Commission on Geoheritage, International Geographical Union (IGU); an associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks (Elsevier); he is the treasurer of the governing body of Dyal Singh College. During his career, he has been honored with many prestigious awards.

Dr. Kuzur is an assistant professor in the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. Prior to joining IGNOU, she was an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, Central University of Haryana. She has taught at the Women’s College of the University of Calcutta; Nirmala College of the Ranchi University; and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Evening College of the University of Delhi. She has also worked as a research associate at the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID), New Delhi, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for the Study of Regional Development (CSRD), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. She holds her Ph.D. degree from JNU. She has been a recipient of various international and national fellowships and awards. She has published 1 book, 8 research papers in national and international journals, and 5 chapters in edited books. Her areas of specialization are social exclusion and socio-spatial deprivation in education among tribes, climate, and gender geography. She has contributed to and made academic presentations in various national and international seminars in India as well as in the UK, Poland, and the Netherlands.