Abstract
This report is designed to inform future planning for the City of Edmonton in the area of climate change mitigation and adaptation, a priority area identified for The Way We Green planning initiative, with particular emphasis on describing the likely implications of climate change for our social and natural systems. Mitigating climate change is a responsibility for all levels of government; however, in North American municipalities have been leading the way. While jurisdictional and fiscal constraints are realities for cities and towns, there are nonetheless several steps that can be taken that have the potential for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are not only cost-effective, but may offer cost savings. Adaptation to climate change is an absolute necessity, one that, unfortunately has not received due attention to date. Here as well, there are many policy options available to municipalities that can enhance the adaptive capacity of their communities. Policies that are put in place today in the areas of climate change adaptation and mitigation have several spin-off benefits, including future cost avoidance, enhancing community resilience to the multiple sources of uncertainty associated with our complex 21st Century social systems, improvements in quality of life, and efficient long-term sustainability planning. Various policy options will be explored at the end of this report, but first a brief summary of the scientific evidence for climate change will be presented, along with its implications for the Edmonton region.
About Debra Davidson
Debra Davidson is Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology with a joint appointment in the Departments of Rural Economy and Renewable Resources at the University of Alberta. Her primary areas of teaching and research include Natural resource politics and governance; social dimensions of global environmental change; environmental risk; and rural sociology. In recent years she has been focusing on social responses to climate change, particularly community-level vulnerability and adaptation. Recent articles are published in several journals, including Sociological Inquiry; Canadian Review of Sociology, and Organization and Environment. She is also co-editor of Consuming Sustainability: Critical Social Perspectives on Ecological Change, Fernwood Press, 2005.
Read
Climate Change: Projections & Implications for Edmonton
City of Edmonton guarantees neither the authenticity, accuracy, appropriateness nor security of the link, web site or content linked thereto.
{ 1 comment… read it below or add one }
the climate change that we experience these days are caused by too much air pollutants ..