Climate-Change Blues: Sustaining Village Life in Tonga

Climate change and marine life

A Marine Climate Impacts Workshop was held from 29 April to 3 May 2012 at the US National Center of Ecological Analysis and Synthesis in Santa Barbara. This workshop was the culmination of a series of six meetings over the past three years, which had brought together 25 experts in climate change ecology, analysis of large datasets, palaeontology, marine ecology and physical oceanography. Aims o...

SUSTAINING CHANGE in ORGANIZATIONS

Spatial analysis of climate change in Iran

Introduction Climate change is the greatest price society is paying for decades of environmental neglect. The impact of global warming is most visible in the rising threat of climate-related natural disasters. Globally, meteorological disasters more than doubled, from an average of forty-five events a year to almost 120 events a year (Vinod, 2017). Climate change refers to changes in the distr...

Life-Sustaining Medical Treatments

To honor the wishes of an incapacitated patient, surrogate decision makers must predict the treatment decisions patients would make for themselves if able. Social psychological research, however, suggests that surrogates' own treatment preferences may influence their predictions of others' preferences. In 2 studies (1 involving 60 college student surrogates and a parent, the other involving 361...

Living in denial: climate change, emotions, and everyday life.

292 C limate change is occurring with devastating impacts on human society, yet a major portion of the global population responds to this catastrophe with apathy. In the book Living in Denial: Climate Change, Emotions, and Everyday Life, Kari Marie Norgaard explores the puzzling disconnect between people’s daily activities and climate change from social, cultural, psychological, and emotional p...