Impact of Climate Change on the Human Living Environment
Author | : Zengyu Hu |
Publisher | : Frontiers Media SA |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : |
ISBN-10 | : 9782832544334 |
ISBN-13 | : 2832544339 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Climate change has been attracting extensive attention worldwide due to its significant and irreversible impacts on the human living environments including hydrometeorological disasters, freshwater availability, land use and land change, urbanization, food production, disease outbreaks, and many other aspects. It has caused huge socio-economic losses, and is the utmost obstacle to the sustainable development of human society. Therefore, addressing the above problems is an urgent and necessary issue to explore the impacts of climate change on different aspects of the human living environment, as an important basis to adopt effective adaptive measures and actions for mitigation of climate change impacts.