Assessing Socio‐Economic Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts and Environmental Hazards in N ew S outh W ales and Q ueensland, A ustralia

Assessing the Vulnerability of Eco-Environmental Health to Climate Change

There is an urgent need to assess the vulnerability of eco-environmental health to climate change. This paper aims to provide an overview of current research, to identify knowledge gaps, and to propose future research needs in this challenging area. Evidence shows that climate change is affecting and will, in the future, have more (mostly adverse) impacts on ecosystems. Ecosystem degradation, p...

Vulnerability to Climate Change: a Regional Perspective of Demographic and Socioeconomic Impacts

Overview of Impacts , Adaptation , and Vulnerability to Climate Change 1

Assessing Climate Change Impacts: Agriculture

The economy-wide implications of climate change on agricultural sectors in 2050 are estimated using a static computable general equilibrium model. Peculiar to this exercise is the coupling of the economic model with a climatic model forecasting temperature increase in the relevant year and with a crop-growth model estimating climate change impact on cereal productivity. The main results of the ...

Assessing dangerous climate change impacts on Australia�s wheat industry

Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations and global and regional climates are already changing as a result of human activities. More change seems likely. Historical climate variations, particularly in rainfall, have had significant impacts on the Australian cropping industries and consequently we would anticipate additional impacts from future climate change. However, the magnitude of th...