UNLABELLED This article provides examples of adverse health effects, including weather-related injury, food insecurity, mental health issues, and water infrastructure damage, and the responses to these effects that are currently being applied in two Northwest Alaska communities. BACKGROUND In Northwest Alaska, warming is resulting in a broad range of unusual weather and environmental conditio...

Local climate policy in Germany is embedded a complex and dense multilevel system. While higher levels of governance confront cities with legal frameworks regulations, they are not constrained to mere implementation requirements from the national or supranational levels. Cities can influence make strategic use opportunities stemming structure introduce innovative measures as best practices. Wit...

Climate change threatens biodiversity worldwide, however predicting how particular species will respond is difficult because climate varies spatially, complex factors regulate population abundance, and species vary in their susceptibility to climate change. Studies need to incorporate these factors with long-term data in order to link climate change to population abundance. We used 40 years of ...

Knowledge of factors that trigger human response to climate change is crucial for effective climate change policy communication. Climate change has been claimed to have low salience as a risk issue because it cannot be directly experienced. Still, personal factors such as strength of belief in local effects of climate change have been shown to correlate strongly with responses to climate change...

We examined impacts of future climate scenarios on flow regimes and how predicted changes might affect river ecosystems. We examined two case studies: Cle Elum River, Washington, and Chattahoochee–Apalachicola River Basin, Georgia and Florida. These rivers had available downscaled global circulation model (GCM) data and allowed us to analyse the effects of future climate scenarios on rivers wit...

Understanding the capacity of ecological systems to withstand and recover from disturbances is a major challenge for research in context environmental changes. Past has mostly focused on local effects biodiversity recovery, while alterations inter-patch connectivity induced by have received comparatively less attention. Here, we investigated effect recovery within metacommunities. Our specific ...

The small-scale industries (SSIs) have a direct relevance for national and local socioeconomic development. However, SSIs that use fossil fuels also contribute not only local pollution, but also greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions that are associated with the global problem of climate change. Select cleaner technologies can help not only in reducing local pollution and GHG emissions, but also provi...

In an effort to address climate change, many cities have joined the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) whose members commit to work toward five specific program objectives designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study examines the extent to which 257 member cities in the US have been successful in achieving these program milestones and identifies factors...

This paper explores some key challenges the Mexican government may face when implementing climate change adaptation initiatives in coastal lagoon communities in the Mexican state of Tabasco, in the Gulf of Mexico. I discuss some challenges state initiatives of this type may encounter considering the existence of local contentious political issues among various actors – fishers and the state-own...

Cities with a Mediterranean-type climate (Med-cities) are particularly susceptible to health risks from climate change since they are located in biogeographical hot-spots that experience some of the strongest effects of the changing climate. The study aims to highlight health impacts of climate change in Med-cities, analyze local climate adaptation plans and make adaptation policy recommendatio...