Abstract
Purpose of Review The impacts of climate change on biodiversity in the last three decades have increasingly assumed from significant to threatening proportions and this causes major global concerns. This study aims at examining the recent and future impacts of global climate change on both ecological resources and human well-being. This review study is based on the general concept of ecological resilience: that coping with climate change stresses and disturbances depends on social resilience, political and environmental strategies accessible in a community. The study assessed over 300 peer-reviewed publications, both articles and books, which linked climate change impacts on ecosystems to social/health resilience of people in the specific regions. Publications on that were focused on general impacts of climate change on global ecology, ecosystem distribution shifts and phenology change; the ecological and social/health resilience, in the tropic and polar regions, were reviewed. Recent Findings The major finding of this study is that there is considerable variation in magnitudes and patterns of responses to climate change in different regions, even with an overall review of scientific studies on the global ecosystem and human health. Despite this, what is obvious is that change in the ecosystem in Polar Regions will continue to have significant impacts on the global environment, flora, fauna and ultimately human well-being. There are many uncertainties, though, on the possible effects of climate change ecosystem and soils and their severe biological, social, cultural and economic consequences. Notwithstanding these uncertainties, the impacts of climate change on both ecosystem and human socio-cultural activities are very likely to become even more widespread in the near future.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 55–65 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Current Climate Change Reports |
Volume | 6 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Sept 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 105203 Bioclimatology
- 105205 Climate change
- 507001 Applied geography
- 105206 Meteorology
Keywords
- Climate change .
- Ecological impacts .
- Social well-being .
- Human health
- AFRICA
- Social well-being
- POPULATION
- CARBON
- Ecological impacts
- DROUGHT
- FARMERS PERCEPTION
- Human health implications
- SEA-LEVEL RISE
- VARIABILITY
- Climate change
- RESPONSES
- PRECIPITATION
- TROPICAL FOREST BIODIVERSITY
- WILDFIRE