Climate affairs is a multidisciplinary concept that encompasses climate science, climate impacts on ecosystems and on societies, climate politics, policy, law and politics, climate economics, and climate ethics. While individual and societal concerns about climate have existed for millennia, the notion of climate affairs is new and is designed to meet the growing educational needs related to climate-related issues.
Climate in its various forms — variability, fluctuations, change, extremes — is appearing at the top of governmental lists of concern about global environmental and technological change. Aside from specific weather and climate phenomena that are of concern in their own right, there is a deep concern about what the adverse effects might be of those phenomena on human activities or on the resources on which societies depend: food production and security, water resources, energy, public health, public safety, economy and environment. Running through each of these categories are...
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Glantz, M.H. (2005). Climate Affairs. In: Oliver, J.E. (eds) Encyclopedia of World Climatology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3266-8_38
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