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Climate Change Impacts on Territories, People and Nature
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Climate Change Impacts on Territories, People and Nature

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154). This special issue belongs to the section "Policy, Governance, and Social Equity".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2023) | Viewed by 3624

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Fátima Alves

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1. Department of Social Sciences and Management, Open University, Porto, Portugal
2. “Societies and Environmental Sustainability” Research Group, Centre for Functional Ecology, Science for People & the Planet (CFE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: climate change and society; sociology; environment; health; social policy
Vanda Viegas

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Social Sustainability and Development with a grant from FCT, I.P, Centre for Functional Ecology, Science for People & the Planet (CFE), Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: social and earth sciences; climate change; socio-environmental articulations
Dr. Diogo Guedes Vidal

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Invited Assistant Researcher at the Centre for Functional Ecology, Science for People & the Planet (CFE), Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Interests: sociology; research methodology; human and non-human relations; possible natures; post-sustainability; climate change and social science
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The climate is changing, and with it, so are ways and forms of life. The complexity and multidimensionality of climate change are widely acknowledged. Mediated through social, cultural, economic, and political structures and processes, its effects are disproportionate, unequal, and aggravating inequalities. To cope with climate change, the need to understand its impacts on territories, people and nature at a multi-scale level arises. Despite significant advancements in the attempt to unveil those dynamics, a gap remains in disclosing driving forces, paradigms, and worldviews.

We are pleased to invite you to promote a polyphonic discussion where different, or even opposite well-grounded perspectives are welcomed to co-create possible alternatives for viable futures on Earth for human and non-human beings.

In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

  • Climate justice, environmental racism and socio-environmental conflicts;
  • Public policies and environmental citizenship;
  • Inequalities and socioecological integration;
  • Socio-ecological futures;
  • Society/nature relations;
  • The multidimensionality of climate change impacts (on health, food, agriculture, environment, economy, technology, among others…);
  • Global North and South perspectives.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. 

Dr. Fátima Alves
Guest Editor

Vanda Viegas
Diogo Guedes Vidal
Guest Editor Assistants

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Climate is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • climate change mitigation and adaptation
  • climate change inequalities
  • lay rationalities of climate change
  • epistemologies of the south
  • climate justice
  • climate change hazards
  • ecological awareness
  • socioecology

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Impact of CS-IPM on Key Social Welfare Aspects of Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihoods
by Haruna Sekabira, Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Yusuf Kaweesa, Guy Simbeko, Manuele Tamò, Cyriaque Agboton, Osman Damba Tahidu and Tahirou Abdoulaye
Climate 2023, 11(5), 97; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli11050097 - 29 Apr 2023
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All stakeholders, especially households that depend on agriculture, must come up with every avenue available to improve farm productivity in order to raise yields due to the constraints posed by climate change on food production systems. Sufficient increments in yields will address the [...] Read more.
All stakeholders, especially households that depend on agriculture, must come up with every avenue available to improve farm productivity in order to raise yields due to the constraints posed by climate change on food production systems. Sufficient increments in yields will address the challenges of food insecurity and malnutrition among vulnerable households, especially smallholder ones. Yield increases can be achieved sustainably through the deployment of various Climate Smart Integrated Pest Management (CS-IPM) practices, including good agronomic practices. Therefore, CS-IPM practices could be essential in ensuring better household welfare, including food security and nutrition. With such impact empirically documented, appropriate policy guidance can be realized in favor of CS-IPM practices at scale, thus helping to achieve sustainable food security and food systems. However, to this end, there is yet limited evidence on the real impact of CS-IPM practices on the various core social welfare household parameters, for instance, food security, household incomes, gender roles, and nutrition, among others. We contribute to this body of literature in this paper by reviewing various empirical evidence that analyzes the impact of respective CS-IPM practices on key social welfare aspects of smallholder farm households in developing countries around the world. The review finds that CS-IPM practices do increase households’ adaptation to climate change, thus enhancing soil and crop productivity, thereby ensuring food and nutrition security, as well as increasing market participation of CS-IPM adopters, thus leading to increased household incomes, asset accumulation, and subsequently better household food and nutrition security via direct own-farm produce consumption and market purchases using income. CS-IPM practices also enhance access to climate-related information, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve biodiversity, and enhance dietary diversity through improved crop and livestock varieties and also reduce variable farm production costs. Therefore, there would be multiple welfare gains if CS-IPM practices were scaled up. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Climate Change Impacts on Territories, People and Nature)
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