SCIE 1P51 Lecture 16: SCIE 1P50 Lecture 16
10 Dec 2015
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Risks of food insecurity and the breakdown of food systems linked to warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation variability and extremes. The poorer populations in urban and rural settings and more vulnerable. Loss of marine and coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, and the ecosystem goods, function and services they provide. Health: growing seasons shortened, crops more susceptible to changing climate- disease, pests, crop production will decrease, worsening hurger increased insect and disease outbreaks, increased change of forest fires. There has been increased heat-related morality and decreased cold-related mortality in some regions as a result of warming. Local changes in temperature and rainfall have altered the distribution of some waterborne illnesses and disease vectors. Adaptation: accept climate change is happening and pursue strategies to minimize its impacts on us. Early warming systems, integrated water resources management, agroforestry, and coastal reforestation of mangroves. Mitigation: pursue actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in. Resilient crop varieties (cid:1) order to lessen severity of future climate change.
