Article
Environmental Sciences
Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Kevern L. Cochrane, Nina Rivers, Warwick H. H. Sauer
Summary: The marine fisheries sector in South Africa is important for income and food security, but documents related to fisheries management rarely address climate change impacts and adaptation. There is a need for more explicit inclusion of information on climate change impacts and adaptation in order to ensure the sector can effectively adapt to climate change.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Studies
Supin Wongbusarakum, Matt Gorstein, Robert Pomeroy, Cheryl L. Anderson, Alexander Mawyer
Summary: The study shows that these communities have high levels of livelihood flexibility and perceived agency to address climate risks, social networks are seen as the most vital community asset, the combination of traditional knowledge and scientific information has significant utility, and there is a need for effective sustainable fisheries governance to prevent further fisheries resource degradation and develop alternative sustainable livelihoods for fishers.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hideo Shiogama, Jun'ya Takakura, Kiyoshi Takahashi
Summary: This study demonstrates the potential for constraining the uncertainty of climate-related economic impacts through the use of impact emulators. By evaluating future climate change projections from 67 ESMs, the impacts in eight sectors were found to be closely related to recent trends in global mean temperature. The application of observational constraints reduced the upper bound of estimated economic impacts, thereby reducing uncertainty.
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Bart J. J. M. van den Hurk, Marina Baldissera Pacchetti, Esther Boere, Alessio Ciullo, Liese Coulter, Suraje Dessai, Ertug Ercin, Henrique M. D. Goulart, Raed Hamed, Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler, Elco Koks, Patryk Kubiczek, Anders Levermann, Reinhard Mechler, Maarten van Meersbergen, Benedikt Mester, Robin Middelanis, Katie Minderhoud, Jaroslav Mysiak, Sadhana Nirandjan, Gijs van den Oord, Christian Otto, Paul Sayers, Jacob Schewe, Theodore G. Shepherd, Jana Sillmann, Dana Stuparu, Thomas Vogt, Katrien Witpas
Summary: Physical climate storylines are proposed as a method to explore complex impact transmission pathways and event cascades under future climate conditions. They are useful for climate risk assessment in complex domains. Development guidelines are needed to consistently develop and interpret the storyline event analyses for effective role in climate risks assessments.
CLIMATE RISK MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Ecology
Miguel Pinto, Marta Albo-Puigserver, Juan Bueno-Pardo, Joao Nuno Monteiro, Maria Alexandra Teodosio, Francisco Leitao
Summary: Understanding vulnerabilities in both ecological and socio-economic aspects is crucial for developing and implementing regional adaptation strategies to climate change. The Portuguese coast, located between temperate and subtropical zones, has distinct oceanographic regions, fish assemblages, and socio-economic conditions. A framework was developed to assess the climate vulnerability of fisheries in each port using environmental projections, surveys, and official statistics. The vulnerability to climate change was found to be moderate, with potential impacts on fishing fleets and local communities. This framework provides essential background information for mandatory EU climate adaptation plans targeting the resilience of fisheries socio-economic systems.
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Nigel C. Sainsbury, Peter W. Schuhmann, Rachel A. Turner, Gaetano Grilli, John K. Pinnegar, Martin J. Genner, Stephen D. Simpson
Summary: This study empirically assesses how fishers trade off the risks from greater wind speed and wave height with the benefits of expected catch and prices, revealing that fishers prefer increased wind speed and wave height up to a threshold, after which they become increasingly averse to worsening conditions. The study provides insight into the factors influencing individual fishers' sensitivity to changing storminess, which can inform fisheries climate vulnerability assessments and adaptation measures.
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Flannery Dolan, Jonathan Lamontagne, Robert Link, Mohamad Hejazi, Patrick Reed, Jae Edmonds
Summary: Water scarcity is a dynamic and complex issue affected by climate change, basin water resources, and adaptive capacities of managed systems. Analysis at global to basin scales reveals that economic impacts of water scarcity can vary greatly depending on scenario assumptions, with market adaptations amplifying economic uncertainty relative to hydrologic uncertainty. Impactful scenarios often involve combinations of standard scenarios, highlighting the need for planners to consider various factors in complex adaptive systems.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Hamza Akram, Jinchao Li, Muhammad Kahlid Anser, Muhammad Irfan, Waqas Ahmad Watto
Summary: The global effort to achieve sustainable development goals requires the participation of researchers and regulators worldwide. A recent study examined the impact of human capital, renewable energy, population growth, economic growth, and environmental protection on the sustainable development goals in a developed economy like Pakistan. The findings show that human capital and renewable energy have a negative correlation with carbon emissions and a positive correlation with the sustainable development goals. These results can guide Pakistani policymakers in formulating effective initiatives for sustainable development.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Anthropology
Jason I. Miszaniec
Summary: This study used archaeological remains of Pacific salmon and saffron cod to assess the effects of warming and cooling climatic events on the size and length of these two fish species. The findings suggest that climatic fluctuations influence the distribution of salmon species, while saffron cod fisheries primarily target spawning adult populations.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Emna Ben Lamine, Alexandre Schickele, Eric Goberville, Gregory Beaugrand, Denis Allemand, Virginie Raybaud
Summary: Investigating the future distributional changes of fish species in the Mediterranean Sea is important for the fisheries and aquaculture industry to adapt to climate change. This study used ensemble modelling to estimate the current and future distribution range of eight economically valuable demersal fish species. The results show that temperature and primary production are the main factors influencing their distribution. The projections suggest a contraction of their distribution range and a shift towards the North European coasts in response to future climate conditions. This has significant economic implications for Mediterranean fisheries.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Nathalie Hilmi, Shekoofeh Farahmand, Vicky W. Y. Lam, Mine Cinar, Alain Safa, Juliette Gilloteaux
Summary: The study investigates the impacts of environmental and socioeconomic risks on fisheries in the Mediterranean region from an economic perspective. Findings suggest that increasing sea temperatures and salinity levels pose threats to fisheries volume, while demographic factors such as population density and Human Development Index (HDI) can also influence fisheries. The research underscores the risks of climate change on Mediterranean fisheries and highlights the importance of enhancing adaptive capacity to protect these valuable resources.
Article
Fisheries
Teunis Jansen, Flemming Thorbjorn Hansen, Birkir Bardarson
Summary: Global warming results in rapid climate change in the arctic regions, leading to significant shifts in the distribution of keystone species such as capelin. Factors such as spawning locations, drift trajectories, and ambient temperature play a role in the distribution changes of capelin, with a striking match found between the abrupt increase in temperature and the observed decrease in recruitment.
FISHERIES RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alizee Chemison, Gilles Ramstein, Adrian M. Tompkins, Dimitri Defrance, Guigone Camus, Margaux Charra, Cyril Caminade
Summary: The study investigates the additional impact of rapid ice-sheet melting in Greenland on climate and malaria transmission in Africa using multiple malaria models. Results suggest that the melting scenario could moderate the increase in malaria risk in East Africa, decrease malaria transmission risk in West Africa, and drive malaria emergence in southern Africa.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Elena Ojea, Elena Fontan, Isabel Fuentes-Santos, Juan Bueno-Pardo
Summary: Climate change is impacting fisheries by causing species to cross fishing areas and institutional borders, leading to conflicts over fisheries management. Fisheries must increase their social, institutional, and ecological resilience to adapt to climate change, and policy makers need to consider social and institutional factors to enhance fisheries adaptation.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Torge Martin, Arne Biastoch, Gerrit Lohmann, Uwe Mikolajewicz, Xuezhu Wang
Summary: This study analyzes the impacts of a sudden increase in Greenland runoff on the North Atlantic region through simulations. It finds that this leads to sea level rise, surface cooling in the subpolar North Atlantic, and a decline in AMOC. These changes persist for several decades to centuries and are influenced by internal variability.
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
(2022)
