Pub Date : 2023-10-06DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02113-3
Sarah Judith Wright, Anne Sietsma, Stefanie Korswagen, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Robbert Biesbroek
Abstract Self-reporting is an important mechanism of the UNFCCC to collect information about what countries are doing to achieve their climate change mitigation and adaptation targets and how much progress has been made. Here we empirically test four hypotheses about what countries prioritise in their self-reporting through the National Communications. Using quantitative text analysis methods (structural topic modelling and keyness statistics), we analyse over 600 submissions (from 1994 to 2019) and find evidence that vulnerable countries highlight impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation rather than mitigation targets, whereas high-emitting countries tend to focus their messaging more on mitigation. Despite the Paris Agreement being considered a “watershed moment”, we find no statistically significant increase in focus on climate solutions post-Paris, and no significant increase in attention to adaptation. Our global assessment and the methods used offer a novel perspective to understand what gets framed as important by governments. Finally, we provide reflections on how self-reporting mechanisms can be used for global stocktaking of progress on climate action.
{"title":"How do countries frame climate change? A global comparison of adaptation and mitigation in UNFCCC National Communications","authors":"Sarah Judith Wright, Anne Sietsma, Stefanie Korswagen, Ioannis N. Athanasiadis, Robbert Biesbroek","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02113-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02113-3","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Self-reporting is an important mechanism of the UNFCCC to collect information about what countries are doing to achieve their climate change mitigation and adaptation targets and how much progress has been made. Here we empirically test four hypotheses about what countries prioritise in their self-reporting through the National Communications. Using quantitative text analysis methods (structural topic modelling and keyness statistics), we analyse over 600 submissions (from 1994 to 2019) and find evidence that vulnerable countries highlight impacts, vulnerability, and adaptation rather than mitigation targets, whereas high-emitting countries tend to focus their messaging more on mitigation. Despite the Paris Agreement being considered a “watershed moment”, we find no statistically significant increase in focus on climate solutions post-Paris, and no significant increase in attention to adaptation. Our global assessment and the methods used offer a novel perspective to understand what gets framed as important by governments. Finally, we provide reflections on how self-reporting mechanisms can be used for global stocktaking of progress on climate action.","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135351412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02123-1
Sadeeka Layomi Jayasinghe, Lalit Kumar
{"title":"Causes of tea land dynamics in Sri Lanka between 1995 and 2030","authors":"Sadeeka Layomi Jayasinghe, Lalit Kumar","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02123-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02123-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976177","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02118-y
Ran Jia, Xiuqi Fang, Yu Ye
{"title":"Gridded reconstruction of cropland cover changes in Northeast China from AD 1000 to 1200","authors":"Ran Jia, Xiuqi Fang, Yu Ye","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02118-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02118-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"438 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-10-04DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02122-2
David Harnesk, Didac Pascual, Lennart Olsson
Abstract The impacts of climate change on rural cultures and livelihoods depend on how the resulting complex biophysical processes may transform people’s land use practices. We argue that research can incorporate local concerns of compound hazards through deterministic rather than probabilistic approaches to better understand the multiple causations involved in such climate change impacts. We apply mixed methods within a storyline approach to examine how a forest reindeer herding community in Northern Sweden copes with and experiences basal ice formation on their winter pasturelands under the influence of climatic and environmental change. Our results show that the detrimental impact of basal ice formation on the availability of winter forage for reindeer is amplified by the directional effects of climate change and encroachments, especially particular forestry practices and their surrounding infrastructure. On the one hand, we show that policy action can address local concerns through ecological interventions that improve the amount and distribution of ground and pendulous lichens at the pastoral landscape scale. On the other hand, we show that policy inaction can threaten the community’s desired experience of human-animal relations in their landscape, which was inextricably connected to ecological conditions for natural pasture-based reindeer pastoralism.
{"title":"Compound hazards of climate change, forestry, and other encroachments on winter pasturelands: a storyline approach in a forest reindeer herding community in Northern Sweden","authors":"David Harnesk, Didac Pascual, Lennart Olsson","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02122-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02122-2","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The impacts of climate change on rural cultures and livelihoods depend on how the resulting complex biophysical processes may transform people’s land use practices. We argue that research can incorporate local concerns of compound hazards through deterministic rather than probabilistic approaches to better understand the multiple causations involved in such climate change impacts. We apply mixed methods within a storyline approach to examine how a forest reindeer herding community in Northern Sweden copes with and experiences basal ice formation on their winter pasturelands under the influence of climatic and environmental change. Our results show that the detrimental impact of basal ice formation on the availability of winter forage for reindeer is amplified by the directional effects of climate change and encroachments, especially particular forestry practices and their surrounding infrastructure. On the one hand, we show that policy action can address local concerns through ecological interventions that improve the amount and distribution of ground and pendulous lichens at the pastoral landscape scale. On the other hand, we show that policy inaction can threaten the community’s desired experience of human-animal relations in their landscape, which was inextricably connected to ecological conditions for natural pasture-based reindeer pastoralism.","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135592510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-26DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02120-4
Davide Tagliapietra, Georg Umgiesser
{"title":"Venice and its lagoon fin de siecle","authors":"Davide Tagliapietra, Georg Umgiesser","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02120-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02120-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134958748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-19DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02121-3
Yitayh Leul, Mohammed Assen, Asmamaw Legass, Shimeles Damene, Jessica Budds
{"title":"Drivers and implications of land use/cover dynamics in land leased areas, western Ethiopia","authors":"Yitayh Leul, Mohammed Assen, Asmamaw Legass, Shimeles Damene, Jessica Budds","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02121-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02121-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135015289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-16DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02117-z
Miroslava Bavorová, Ayat Ullah, Dominic Nyendu, Alexander V. Prishchepov
{"title":"Determinants of farmland abandonment in the urban–rural fringe of Ghana","authors":"Miroslava Bavorová, Ayat Ullah, Dominic Nyendu, Alexander V. Prishchepov","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02117-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02117-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135308508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x
Arash Sharifi, Morteza Djamali, Larry C. Peterson, Peter K. Swart, María Guadalupe Pulido Ávila, Mojgan Esfahaninejad, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Hamid A. K. Lahijani, Ali Pourmand
{"title":"The rise and demise of Iran’s Urmia Lake during the Holocene and the Anthropocene: “what’s past is prologue”","authors":"Arash Sharifi, Morteza Djamali, Larry C. Peterson, Peter K. Swart, María Guadalupe Pulido Ávila, Mojgan Esfahaninejad, Jacques-Louis de Beaulieu, Hamid A. K. Lahijani, Ali Pourmand","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02119-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135980751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-04DOI: 10.1007/s10113-023-02112-4
A. Chandrasekharan, R. Ramsankaran
{"title":"Reconstructing 32 years (1989–2020) of annual glacier surface mass balance in Chandra Basin, Western Himalayas, India","authors":"A. Chandrasekharan, R. Ramsankaran","doi":"10.1007/s10113-023-02112-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02112-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54502,"journal":{"name":"Regional Environmental Change","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.2,"publicationDate":"2023-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43112454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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