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Unequal changes | Industry settlement and society
No one has a comprehensive response on long-term potential impacts of climate change. Even the report compiled by the IPCC shows the limited knowledge of the possible changes that will affect human society in the coming decades because of global warming. The chapter represented examines vulnerabilities, impacts, costs and forms of adaptation of the human system in connection with the events generated by climate change. The impacts in the fields of industry, services, infrastructure and human settlements are analyzed in detail. A basic point that emerges several times in the chapter covers the importance of the level of economic development and the geographic location in determining the impacts of the violence of these events. This was therefore a factor which has become increasingly important in our analysis. Another very important factor that has influenced our decisions was the almost total absence of numerical data that could be represented. In the chapter, in fact, only specific and isolated case studies are reported and these could not provide a clear picture of the situation. For this reason, during the data processing, we have moved on two directions. First of all, we have selected from the text a series of qualitative data: we extrapolated from the report all the examples of impacts, vulnerabilities, costs and adaptation strategies. We have divided them according to the geographical area and the economic development. Concerning the numerical data, instead, we have consulted an external source, the Emdat. As for the section that explains the actors of the human system and the relationships between them, we have given particular importance to the forms of adaptability of the identified actors, seen as moments of reaction of the human system to climate change.
Project by:
Filippo Donisi
Lorenzo Fantetti
Federica Fragapane
Emanuele Luppino
Francesco Majno
Unequal changes | Industry settlement and society
No one has a comprehensive response on long-term potential impacts of climate change. Even the report compiled by the IPCC shows the limited knowledge of the possible changes that will affect human society in the coming decades because of global warming. The chapter represented examines vulnerabilities, impacts, costs and forms of adaptation of the human system in connection with the events generated by climate change. The impacts in the fields of industry, services, infrastructure and human settlements are analyzed in detail. A basic point that emerges several times in the chapter covers the importance of the level of economic development and the geographic location in determining the impacts of the violence of these events. This was therefore a factor which has become increasingly important in our analysis. Another very important factor that has influenced our decisions was the almost total absence of numerical data that could be represented. In the chapter, in fact, only specific and isolated case studies are reported and these could not provide a clear picture of the situation. For this reason, during the data processing, we have moved on two directions. First of all, we have selected from the text a series of qualitative data: we extrapolated from the report all the examples of impacts, vulnerabilities, costs and adaptation strategies. We have divided them according to the geographical area and the economic development. Concerning the numerical data, instead, we have consulted an external source, the Emdat. As for the section that explains the actors of the human system and the relationships between them, we have given particular importance to the forms of adaptability of the identified actors, seen as moments of reaction of the human system to climate change.
Project by:
Filippo Donisi
Lorenzo Fantetti
Federica Fragapane
Emanuele Luppino
Francesco Majno