Rate This Article

Average: 0/5

Climate Change Collection: Social

Climate Change Collection: Social

Published:
Updated: May 7, 2012, 11:43 am
Topics: Climate Change
This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: Peter Saundry
 

Water supply

  1. Overview
  2. Key impacts and vulnerabilities
  3. Surface waters
  4. Groundwater
  5. Saltwater intrusion
  6. Floods and droughts
  7. Water quality
  8. Erosion and sediment transport
  9. Costs and other socio-economic aspects

Fisheries

  1. Importance of fisheries
  2. Current vulnerability
  3. Adaptive capacity
  4. Primary effects
  5. Aquaculture

Agriculture

  1. Importance of agriculture
  2. Current vulnerability
  3. Adaptive capacity
  4. Primary effects
  5. Monocropping
  6. Pastures and livestock
  7. Industrial crops and biofuels
  8. Subsistence farming communities

Forestry

  1. Importance of forestry
  2. Current vulnerability
  3. Adaptive capacity
  4. Primary effects

Industry, settlement and society

  1. Key impacts and vulnerabilities
  2. Overview of market impacts
  3. Overview of non-market impacts
  4. Human vulnerability
  5. Specific impacts
    1. Industry
    2. Services
    3. Utilities/Infrastructure
    4. Human settlement
    5. Social issues
    6. Economic issues

Human health

  1. Overview of U.S. federal research
  2. Heat and cold health effects
  3. Winds, storms and floods
  4. Drought
  5. nutritio
  6. Food security
  7. Water and disease
  8. Air quality and disease
  9. Aeroallergens and disease
  10. Vector-borne, rodent-borne, and other infectious diseases
  11. Occupational health
  12. Ultraviolet radiation and health

Conflict

  1. UNEP's report: From Conflict to Peacebuilding: The Role of Natural Resources and the Environment
  2. Human migration
  3. Climate refugees
  4. Opportunities for peace

 

Return to the Climate Change Collection homepage

Return to the Climate Change Outline of Topics

Citation

Maggie Surface (Lead Author);Peter Saundry (Topic Editor) "Climate Change Collection: Social". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth January 28, 2010; Last revised Date May 7, 2012; Retrieved May 22, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_Collection:_Social>

The Author

Maggie SurfaceMaggie Surface, originally from Nashville, TN, graduated in May of 2007 from Allegheny College with a double B.S. in physics and environmental studies. Her senior thesis at Allegheny focused on bringing solar energy to campus. She interned with American Rivers in the summer of 2006, helping plan River Lobby Day, and with the Meadville Area Local Growers and the Meadville Redevelopment Authority in the summer of 2005. Maggie served as the Earth Portal Program Coordinator for the National Counc ... (Full Bio)

0 Comments

Add Comment

You must be logged in to post a comment. Click here to login