This paper reviews extant evidence and offers a conceptual framework for the investigation of complex dynamics among human population growth, environmental degradation, poverty, and climate change. The paper introduces theories relating to population growth, environmental degradation, the impact on human well-being, and potential relations with climate change. Poverty is discussed in detail as ...

This paper discusses some of the elements that may characterise an efficient strategy to adapt to a changing climate. Such a strategy will have to reflect the long time horizon of, and the prevailing uncertainties about, climate change. An intuitively appealing approach therefore seems to be to enhance the flexibility and resilience of systems to react to and cope with climate shocks and extrem...

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In the context of global climate change, flooding and sea level rise is increasingly threatening coastal urban areas, in which large population is continuously concentrated. Dutch experiences in urban water system management provide high reference value for sustainable coastal urban development projects. Preliminary studies shows the urban water system in Almere, a typical Dutch polder city, ha...

State-of-art modelling has shown a largely altered oceanographic environment as consequence of climate change. The models implemented normally present low temporal and spatial resolutions they aim at general understanding on how large scale processes vary in changing climate. Through downscaling projections towards coastal applications it is possible to reach higher much more detailed informati...

The Tuckerton Peninsula is the designated sentinel site of the Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve for the detection and monitoring of climate change effects, most notably sea-level rise and inundation, as well as other natural and anthropogenic drivers of change. It is a 2,000 ha Spartina salt marsh system of state Wildlife Management Lands. Sentinel site infrastructure has be...

In recent years, there has been considerable speculation about the possible effects of climate change on migration, especially in developing countries. Stern (2006) noted that 200 million people worldwide live in at-risk coastal flood plains, which would be threatened by changes in sea-level. Moreover climate change may lead to resource scarcity, drought, floods, and other environmental changes...

[1] Chemical analysis of deepwater octocorals collected at 1000 m depth off southern Australia indicates long-term cooling, beginning in the mid-18th century. This cooling appears to reflect shoaling of isotherms along the continental shelf, that can be related statistically, observationally and by modeling to increasing coastal seasurface temperatures, that in turn reflect a poleward extension...