TY - CHAP
T1 - Climate Impact Assessments
AU - Hemming, Debbie
AU - Agnew, Maureen D.
AU - Goodess, Clare M.
AU - Giannakopoulos, Christos
AU - Salem, Skander Ben
AU - Bindi, Marco
AU - Bradai, Mohamed Nejmeddine
AU - Congedi, Letizia
AU - Dibari, Camilla
AU - El-Askary, Hesham
AU - El-Fadel, Mutasem
AU - El-Raey, Mohamed
AU - Ferrise, Roberto
AU - Grünzweig, José M.
AU - Harzallah, Ali
AU - Hattour, Abdallah
AU - Hatzaki, Maria
AU - Kanas, Dina
AU - Lionello, Piero
AU - McCarthy, Mark
AU - Aranda, César Mösso
AU - Oweis, Theib
AU - Sierra, Joan Pau
AU - Psiloglou, Basil
AU - Reale, Marco
AU - Sánchez-Arcilla, Agustín
AU - Senouci, Mohamed
AU - Tanzarella, Annalisa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - This chapter highlights key climate impacts, hazards and vulnerabilities and associated indicators that have been used to assess current (recent) climate impacts at each of the case-study sites. The aim is to illustrate some of the wide range of information available from individual case studies and highlight common themes that are evident across multiple case-study locations. This is used to demonstrate linkages and sensitivities between the specific climate impacts of relevance for each case-study type (urban, rural and coastal) and the key climate hazards and biogeophysical and social vulnerabilities representing the underlying drivers and site conditions. For some impacts, there are clear, direct links with climate events, such as heat stress and flooding, while for others, such as energy supply and demand, the causal relationships are more indirect, via a cascade of climate, social and economic influences. Water availability and extreme temperatures are common drivers of current climate impacts across all case studies, including, for example, freshwater supply and heat stress for urban populations; irrigation capacity and growing season length for agricultural regions; and saltwater intrusion of aquifers and tourist visitor numbers at coastal locations. At some individual case-study locations, specific impacts, hazards and/or vulnerabilities are observed, such as peri-urban fires in Greater Athens, infrastructure vulnerability to coastal flooding in Alexandria, groundwater levels in Tel Hadya and vector-borne diseases in the Gulf of Oran. Throughout this chapter, evidence of current climate impacts, hazards and vulnerabilities from each of the case studies is detailed and assessed relative to other case studies. This provides a foundation for considering the wider perspective of the Mediterranean region as a whole, and for providing a context from which to assess consequences of future climate projections and consider suitable adaptation options.
AB - This chapter highlights key climate impacts, hazards and vulnerabilities and associated indicators that have been used to assess current (recent) climate impacts at each of the case-study sites. The aim is to illustrate some of the wide range of information available from individual case studies and highlight common themes that are evident across multiple case-study locations. This is used to demonstrate linkages and sensitivities between the specific climate impacts of relevance for each case-study type (urban, rural and coastal) and the key climate hazards and biogeophysical and social vulnerabilities representing the underlying drivers and site conditions. For some impacts, there are clear, direct links with climate events, such as heat stress and flooding, while for others, such as energy supply and demand, the causal relationships are more indirect, via a cascade of climate, social and economic influences. Water availability and extreme temperatures are common drivers of current climate impacts across all case studies, including, for example, freshwater supply and heat stress for urban populations; irrigation capacity and growing season length for agricultural regions; and saltwater intrusion of aquifers and tourist visitor numbers at coastal locations. At some individual case-study locations, specific impacts, hazards and/or vulnerabilities are observed, such as peri-urban fires in Greater Athens, infrastructure vulnerability to coastal flooding in Alexandria, groundwater levels in Tel Hadya and vector-borne diseases in the Gulf of Oran. Throughout this chapter, evidence of current climate impacts, hazards and vulnerabilities from each of the case studies is detailed and assessed relative to other case studies. This provides a foundation for considering the wider perspective of the Mediterranean region as a whole, and for providing a context from which to assess consequences of future climate projections and consider suitable adaptation options.
KW - Climate change
KW - Climate variability
KW - Impacts
KW - Mediterranean
KW - Vulnerability
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U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-5769-1_4
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-5769-1_4
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AN - SCOPUS:85037360289
T3 - Advances in Global Change Research
SP - 61
EP - 104
BT - Advances in Global Change Research
PB - Springer International Publishing
ER -