Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 : Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Universität Hamburg.

Contributor:

Marotzke, Jochem.

Ratter, Beate.

Gonçalves Gresse, Eduardo.

López-Rivera, Andrés.

Pagnone, Anna.

Wilkens, Jan.

Gerbach, Jan.

Series:

Neue Ökologie ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Climate change adaptation.

Climate justice.

Climate.

Environmental policy.

Local Subjects:

Climate.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Engels Anita : Anita Engels ist Professorin für Soziologie an der Universität Hamburg.Wilkens Jan : Jan Wilkens ist Politikwissenschaftler und Postdoc im Syntheseprojekt des Exzellenzclusters Klima, Klimawandel und Gesellschaft der Universität Hamburg.

Summary:

The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 examines the plausibility of sustainable climate change adaptation by integrating social and scientific analyses. Developed by the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS, this report identifies key social drivers, such as UN climate governance, transnational cooperation, and climate activism, while also addressing barriers like fossil-fuel dependency and structural inequalities. It emphasizes the interplay of internal climate variability, extreme weather events, and socio-economic impacts, offering a nuanced perspective on challenges like food security and infrastructure resilience. Through nine case studies, the report underscores the importance of enabling conditions, community engagement, and diverse knowledge integration, including perspectives from Indigenous Peoples. Its goal is to inform policies and strategies that align climate adaptation with justice and sustainability principles. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Key Findings

Author List

Table of Contents

Recommended Citations

1 The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024: Goals and Structure

2 The Plausibility of Climate Futures: Explaining the Methodology

3 The Plausibility of Achieving Deep Decarbonization by 2050

3.1 The Social Plausibility Assessment Framework

3.2 UN Climate Governance

3.3 Transnational Cooperation

3.4 Climate-Related Regulation

3.5 Climate Activism and Social Mobilization

3.6 Climate Litigation

3.7 Corporate Responses

3.8 Fossil-Fuel Divestment

3.9 Consumption Trends

3.10 Media Debates

3.11 Knowledge Production

3.12 Summary of Social Driver Assessments

Box I _ The Implications of Degrowth Scenarios for the Plausibility of Climate Futures

Box II _ The Costs of Military Spending, Wars and the Plausibility of Climate Futures

4 Regional Climate Variability and Extremes: Challenges for Adaptation

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Single-Model Initial-Condition Large Ensembles Quantify Internal Climate Variability and its Changes

4.3 Are Recently Observed Heavy Precipitation Extremes Realistically Represented by State-of-the-Art Spatial Resolutions of Global Climate Models?

4.4 High-Impact Marine Heatwaves

4.5 How Will Extreme Heat in the World’s Breadbasket Regions Change in the Future?

4.6 Summary

5 Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation: Insights and Reflections from the Field Generated by AI.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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ISBN:

9783839470817

3839470811

OCLC:

1492977869