Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Dear Colleagues,

With the increasing concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, climate change is now an indisputable fact and poses great challenges to the environment, economies, and communities. These challenges are further compounded by inaction, which can lead to severe impacts on human health, food security, and global stability. Fortunately, a number of studies have been carried out with a focus on acquiring knowledge of climate change and its impacts on the ecosystem and national sectors such as agriculture, forestry, water resources, etc. However, there are still many uncertainties regarding impact assessment results and practical adaptive measures because of limited data and methodologies and the scale of such studies. Therefore, case studies should be strengthened and broadened to reduce these uncertainties and develop practical adaptive measures to cope with climate change.

This Topic seeks to bring together interdisciplinary perspectives to address the ever-expanding importance of climate change impacts and adaptation. Despite a broad range of research undertaken by different countries, organizations, and industries to address climate change, a great deal of very important work remains to be completed to effectively assess the impacts of climate change and to understand the extent to which adaptation measures can reduce the negative impacts of climate change.

For this Topic, we warmly invite scientists working in climatology, ecology, geography, remote sensing and GIS, environmental science, and social science to contribute novel theories, observations, and modeling studies on climate change impacts and adaptation across different time scales (historical to future) and spatial scales (regional to global). Contributions can include but are not limited to the following: observation-based regional climate change analysis, the detection and attribution of regional climate change, the measurement and modeling of land surface–atmosphere interaction, the impacts and risks of climate change on different regions (or sectors), meteorological disaster risk management, climate change and sustainable development, international climate governance, etc.

Dr. Cheng Li
Prof. Dr. Fei Zhang
Dr. Mou Leong Tan
Dr. Kwok Pan Chun
Topic Editors