GC11A:
Adapting to Rates of Climate Change: Natural and Human Dimensions I Posters


Session ID#: 7681

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:  Kate Ricke1, Ken Caldeira1 and Juan Moreno-Cruz2, (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:

Heat stress and societal impacts in the 21st century (62407)
Ethan Coffel, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, Radley M Horton, Columbia University/NASA GISS, New York, NY, United States and Alexander M de Sherbinin, Columbia University, CIESIN, Palisades, NY, United States
State Wildlife Action Plans as Tools for Adapting to a Continuously Changing Climate (63760)
Deanna Wurts Metivier, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, United States, Heather M Yocum, University of Colorado, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States and Andrea J Ray, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab/Physical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States
Inferring Anthropogenic Trends from Satellite Data for Water-sustainability of US Cities Near Artificial Reservoirs (64075)
Wondmagegn Yigzaw, Tennessee Technological University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Cookeville, TN, United States and Faisal Hossain, University of Washington Seattle Campus, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Seattle, United States
Adaptation measures to drought in Mongolian rangeland: The long-distant movement of people and livestock (64100)
Kaoru Kakinuma, Shanghai University, Asian Demographic Research Institute, Shanghai, China and Shinjiro Kanae, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tokyo, Japan
Comparing Long-Term and Short-Term Emission Impacts from Infrastructure Using a Simple Model (70647)
Kevin Hade, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States and Tami C Bond, Univ Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States
Changing climate and the value of the tea landscape in Assam (72105)
Eloise M Biggs1, Niladri Gupta2, John Duncan3 and Sukanya D Saikia2, (1)University of Southampton, Southampton, SO14, United Kingdom, (2)Tea Research Association, Jorhat, India, (3)University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Spatial stabilization and intensification of moistening and drying rate patterns under future climate change (73199)
Sylvie Joussaume1, Yann Chavaillaz2, Sandrine Bony3 and Pascale Bracconot2, (1)IPSL/LSCE (Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (2)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (3)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France
Combining Population Structure with Historic Abitoic Processes to Better Understand Species and Community Range Shifts in Response to Climate Change (80814)
Noel Marie Graham, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, CA, United States
Migration Related to Climate Change: Impact, Challenges and Proposed Policy Initiatives (82777)
Arunima Sarkar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

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