GC14A:
Adapting to Rates of Climate Change: Natural and Human Dimensions I


Session ID#: 10431

Session Description:
Most discussion related to adaptation to climate change and its impacts has focused on amounts of climate change (e.g., adaptation to 2 °C warming or 100 cm of sea level rise). However, it is becoming increasingly clear that, as climate continues to change, ecosystems and human systems will need to continuously adapt to a moving target. It is useful to think about adaptation in terms of adjusting to and planning for rates of change and not only in terms of some specific amount of change. This perspective is implicit in recent discussions of velocity of climate change and rates of biological adaptation and deserves a more central role in investigations of human dimensions of adaptation.

This session will bring together natural scientists and social scientists who are investigating adaptation of natural and human systems to past and potential future rates of change.

Primary Convener:  Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Soheil Shayegh, Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States and Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States
Chairs:  Ken Caldeira1, Juan Moreno-Cruz2 and Kate Ricke1, (1)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States(2)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Soheil Shayegh, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
  • PP - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0402 Agricultural systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
4815 Ecosystems, structure, dynamics, and modeling [OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL]
6309 Decision making under uncertainty [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Robust Engineering Designs for Infrastructure Adaptation to a Changing Climate (Invited) (77261)
Constantine Samaras, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, United States and Lauren Marie Cook, Carnegie Mellon University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Understanding the Uncertainties in Consequences of Climate Change for the United States Power Sector Infrastructure when Considering a Realistic Mitigation Pace and Adaptation Needs. (Invited) (79002)
Ines Azevedo, Stanford University, Energy Science and Engineering, Stanford, United States
Learning and Risk Exposure in a Changing Climate (Invited) (61051)
Frances Claire Moore, University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science & Policy, Berkeley, CA, United States
Engaging a moving target: Adapting to rates of climate change (59351)
Soheil Shayegh, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC, United States, Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States and Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States
Regional Heterogeneity in the Rates of Warming from CO2 Emissions (79135)
Kate Ricke and Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States
Investigating the pace of temperature change and its implications over the twenty-first century (73120)
Yann Chavaillaz1, Sylvie Joussaume2, Pascale Bracconot1 and Robert Vautard3, (1)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)IPSL/LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette, France
Rate and Velocity of Climate Change Caused by Cumulative Carbon Emissions (66425)
Anna LoPresti, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Steven J Davis, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States, Noah S Diffenbaugh, Stanford University, Earth System Science and Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford, United States, James Tremper Randerson, University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, Dawn Woodard, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC, United States and Allison Charland, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Ultrarapid Poster Presentations (76192)
Ken Caldeira, Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Washington, DC, United States, Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Economics, Atlanta, GA, United States and Soheil Shayegh, Carnegie Institution for Science, Dept. of Global Ecology, Washington, DC, United States

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