The long arm of climate change: societal teleconnections and the future of climate change impacts studies

Climatic Change

Volumn 129, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 13-26

  Moser, Susanne C ^a,b,c   Hart, Juliette A Finzi ^d,e  

^a Susanne Moser Research and Consulting   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e Thalassa Research Consulting   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACT; DIFFERENT STRUCTURE; ECONOMIC EXCHANGE; GROUND ADAPTATION; SELECTED EXAMPLES; STRATEGIC ALLIANCE; TELECONNECTIONS; VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

EID: 84925511928     PISSN: 01650009     EISSN: 15731480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10584-015-1328-z     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Acclimatise (2014) Infographic: In 2011 Thailand was under water; but the ripples were felt across the world. Acclimatise http://www.acclimatise.uk.com/network/article/infographic-in-2011-thailand-was-under-water-but-the-ripples-were-felt-across-the-world Accessed 6 Mar 2014
2. Adger WN, Eakin H, Winkels A (2009) Nested and teleconnected vulnerabilities to environmental change. Front Ecol Environ 7:150–157
3. Aide TM, Grau HR (2004) Globalization, migration, and Latin American ecosystems. Science 305:1915–1916
4. Angstrom A (1935) Teleconnections of climatic changes in present time. Geogr Annal 17:243–258
5. Birkmann J, Chang Seng D, Setiadi N (2013) Enhancing early warning in the light of migration and environmental shocks. Environ Sci Pol 27(S1):S76–S88
6. Black R, Adger WN, Arnell NW (2013) Migration and extreme environmental events: new agendas for global change research. Environ Sci Pol 27(S1):S1–S3
7. Challies E, Newig J, Lenschow A (2014) What role for social-ecological systems research in governing global teleconnections? Glob Environ Chang 27:32–40
8. CNA (2006) National security and the threat of climate change. The Center for Climate and Security. https://www.cna.org/reports/climate. Accessed 31 Mar 31 2014
9. Corell RW, Liverman D, Dow K, Ebi KL, Kunkel K, Mearns LO, Melillo J (2014) Ch. 29: research needs for climate and global change assessments. In: Melillo JM, Richmond TC, Yohe GW (eds) Climate change impacts in the United States: the third national climate assessment. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, pp 707–718
10. Eakin H, DeFries R, Kerr S, Lambin EF, Liu J, Marcotullio PJ, Messerli P, Reenberg A, Rueda X, Swaffield SR, Wicke B, Zimmerer K (2014) Significance of telecoupling for exploration of land-use change. In: Seto KC, Reenberg A (eds) Rethinking global land use in an urban era, vol 39. The MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 141–161
11. EM-DAT (2009) International emergencies disaster database. http://www.emdat.be/index/database. Accessed 31 Mar 2014
12. Garside J (2012) Thailand flooding costs Lloyd’s of London $2.2bn. The Guardian, p. 24. http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/feb/14/lloyds-thailand-flooding-2bn-dollars. Accessed 31 Mar 2014
13. Gledhill R, Hamza-Goodacre D, Ping Low L (2013) Business-not-as-usual: tackling the impacts of climate change on supply risk. Resilience: a journal of strategy and risk. PWC. www.pwc.com/resilience. Accessed 31 Mar 2014
14. Groen JA, Polivka AE (2008) Hurricane Katrina evacuees: who they are, where they are, and how they are faring. Mon Labor Rev 131(3):32–51
15. Güneralp B, Seto KC, Ramachandran M (2013) Evidence of urban land teleconnections and impacts on hinterlands. Curr Opin Environ Sustain 5(5):445–451
16. Hawkins TW, Ellis AW, Skindlov JA, Reigle D (2002) Intra-annual analysis of the North American snow cover-monsoon teleconnection: seasonal forecasting utility. J Clim 15:1743–1753
17. Hecht SB, Saatchi SS (2007) Globalization and forest resurgence: changes in forest cover in El Salvador. Bioscience 57(8):663–671
18. Hori M and Bowman D (2008) Displacement dynamics in Southern Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Paper presented at 2008 Population Association of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April 17–19, 2008
19. Kates RW, Travis WR, Wilbanks TJ (2011) Transformational adaptation when incremental adaptations to climate change are insufficient. PNAS 109:7156–7161
20. Laczko F and Aghazarm C (2009) Migration, environment and climate change: assessing the evidence. International Organization for Migration (IOM). ISBN 978-92-9068-454-1
21. Lambin EF, Meyfroidt P (2011) Global land use change, economic globalization, and the looming land scarcity. PNAS 108:3465–3472
22. Leichenko R, O’Brien K (2008) Environmental change and globalization: double exposures. Oxford University Press, Oxford
23. Liu J, Hull V, Batistella M, DeFries R, Dietz T, Fu F, Hertel TW, Izaurralde RC, Lambin EF, Li S, Martinelli LA, McConnell WJ, Moran EF, Naylor R, Ouyang Z, Polenske KR, Reenberg A, de Miranda Rocha G, Simmons CS, Verburg PH, Vitousek PM, Zhang F, Zhu C (2013) Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecol Soc 18(2):26. doi:10.5751/ES-05873-180226
24. Liu J, Hull V, Moran E, Nagendra H, Swaffield SRBLT II (2014) Applications of the telecoupling framework to land-change science. In: Seto KC, Reenberg A (eds) Rethinking global land use in an urban era. The MIT Press, Cambridge, pp 119–139
25. Luber G, Knowlton K, Balbus J, Frumkin H, Hayden M, Hess J, McGeehin M, Sheats N, Backer L, Beard CB, Ebi KL, Maibach E, Ostfeld RS, Wiedinmyer C, Zielinski-Gutiérrez E, Ziska L (2014) Ch. 9: human health. In: Melillo JM, Richmond TC, Yohe GW (eds) Climate change impacts in the United States: the third national climate assessment. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, pp 220–256
26. Marino E (2012) The long history of environmental migration: assessing vulnerability construction and obstacles to successful relocation in Shishmaref, Alaska. Glob Environ Chang 22(2):374–381
27. McIntosh MF (2008) Measuring the labor market impacts of Hurricane Katrina migration: evidence from Houston, Texas. Papers and proceedings of the one hundred twentieth annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Am Econ Rev 98(2):54–57
28. McLeman RA, Hunter LM (2010) Migration in the context of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change: insights from analogues. WIREs Clim Chang 1:450–461
29. McMichael AJ (2013) Globalization, climate change, and human health. N Engl J Med 368(14):1335–1343
30. Melillo JM, Reilly JM, Kicklighter DW, Gurgel AC, Cronin TW, Paltsev S et al (2009) Indirect emissions from biofuels: how important? Science 326:1397–1399
31. O’Brien K, Barnett J (2013) Global environmental change and human security. Annu Rev Environ Resour 38:373–391
32. Oppenheimer M, Campos M, Warren R, Birkmann J, Luber G, O’Neill B, Takahashi K (2014) Emergent risks and key vulnerabilities. In: Brklacich M, Semenov S (eds) Climate change 2014: impacts, adaptation, vulnerability, contribution of working group II to the fifth assessment report of the IPCC. Cambridge University Press, New York, pp 1039–1099
33. Perch-Nielsen LS, Bättig BM, Imboden D (2008) Exploring the link between climate change and migration. Clim Chang 91:375–393
34. Perdinan K, Winkler JA (2013) Changing human landscapes under a changing climate: considerations for climate assessments. Environ Manag 53(1):42–54
35. Pidgeon N, Kasperson RE, Slovic P (2003) The social amplification of risk. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
36. Piguet E (2012) Migration: the drivers of human migration. Nat Clim Chang 2(6):400–401
37. Renn O (2011) The social amplification/attenuation of risk framework: application to climate change. WIREs Clim Chang 2:154–169
38. Sathaye J, Dale L, Larsen P, Fitts G, Lewis S, Koy K, Lucena A (2013) Assessing the risk to California energy infrastructure from projected climate change. IEEE Power Energy Mag 11(3):32–45
39. Seto KC, Reenberg A, Boone CG, Fragkias M, Haase D, Langanke T, Marcotullio P, Munroe DK, Olahand B, Simon D (2012) Urban land teleconnections and sustainability. PNAS 109:7687–7692
40. Sternberg T (2013) Chinese drought, wheat and the Egyptian uprising: how a localized hazard became globalized. In: CE Werrell and F Femia (Eds.), The Arab spring and climate change. A climate and security correlations series. Center for American Progress. http://climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/climatechangearabspring-ccs-cap-stimson.pdf. Accessed 31 Mar 2014
41. Werrell CW and Femia F (2013) The Arab spring and climate change: a climate and security correlations series. Center for American Progress. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/report/2013/02/28/54579/the-arab-spring-and-climate-change/. Accessed March 31, 2014
42. Wilbanks T, Bilello D, Schmalzer D, and Scott M (2012) Climate change and energy supply use. Technical report by the U.S. department of energy in support of the third national climate assessment, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
43. Wilbanks T, Fernandez S, Backus G, Garcia P, Jonietz K, Kirshen P, Savonis M, Solecki B and Toole L (2012) Climate change and infrastructure, urban systems, and vulnerabilities. Technical report to the U.S. department of energy in support of the third national climate assessment, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
44. Wyett K (2013) Escaping a rising tide: sea level rise and migration in Kiribati. Asia Pac Policy Stud 1(1):171–185
45. Young OR, Berkhout F, Gallopin GC, Janssen MA, Ostrom E, van der Leeuw S (2006) The globalization of socio-ecological systems: an agenda for scientific research. Glob Environ Chang 16:304–316
46. Youngs H, Somerville C (2014) Best practices for biofuels. Science 344:1095–1096