Climate is a fundamental and independent variable for human existence, as well as a factor in shaping the physical landscape within which human societies dwell. The record of human activities in South America before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532 is rich in archaeological remains but the process of reconstructing it is hampered by the lack of deciphered written languages. Through excavation...

A general discussion is given of climate variability over the last 1500 years as interpreted from two ice cores from the Quelccaya ice cap, Peru. The possible role of climatic variability in prehistory over this period is discussed with emphases on (1) relationships between climate and the rise and decline of coastal and highland cultures; (2) the possible causes of two major dust events record...

Coastal flooding is a problem of increasing relevance in low-lying coastal regions worldwide. In addition to the anticipated increase in likelihood and magnitude of coastal floods due to climate change, there is rapid growth in coastal assets and infrastructure. Sustainable and integrated coastal flood management over large areas and varying coastline types cannot be simply treated as local com...

In this study we utilize content analysis techniques to examine how the issue of global warming and climate change has been characterized during the period of 1992 through 2005 by the Houston Chronicle—the largest regional newspaper in the Texas coastal region. A total of 795 global warming and climate change news articles from the Houston Chronicle are collected, coded and analyzed. Data analy...

Mangroves function as a natural coastline protection for erosion and inundation, providing important environmental services. Due to their geographical distribution at the continent-ocean interface, the mangrove habitat may suffer heavy impacts from global climate change, maximized by local human activities occurring in a given coastal region. This review analyzed the literature published over t...

Published online: 24 January 2013 Abstract In recent decades, community based adaptation to climate change has gained enormous attention from scientists, policy makers and development professionals. This paper presents community based risk assessment for identification of risk and local adaptation practices as a response to climate change. The south-western coastal region of Bangladesh was sele...

This paper identifies and analyses climate change impacts, their cascading consequences and the livelihood implications of these impacts on smallholder agricultural communities of coastal Bangladesh. Six physically and socio-economically vulnerable communities of south-western coastal regions were studied. Primary data was collected through focus group discussions, a seasonal calendar, and hist...

We present a new approach to retrieve Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) from Moderate 15 Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) over the turbid coastal water. This approach 16 supplements the operational Dark Target (DT) aerosol retrieval algorithm that currently don’t 17 conduct any AOD retrieval in the regions with large water-leaving radiances in the visible spectrum. 18 Over the global coas...