National Climate Assessment IV, Chapter 17: Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems
Abstract
The world we live in is a web of natural, built, and social systems with complex interactions among different sectors and the stressors that affect them. This poster will focus on the findings from the Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems chapter, which is part of Volume II of the Fourth National Climate Assessment - Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States. The chapter was written by a team of multidisciplinary researchers, and went through multiple rounds of public and governmental review. The chapter illustrates the mechanisms by which the impacts of climate change in one sector or system often generate downstream and indirect consequences that can be difficult to predict especially when examined both in context of other influences and stressors and how the sectors and systems themselves will co-evolve over time. Four key messages are presented that summarize the state of the literature, highlight the importance of multisector dynamics when assessing the implications of climate change, identify the implications of such dynamics for climate risk management, and articulate critical knowledge gaps and research pathways.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA31D1166C
- Keywords:
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- 3305 Climate change and variability;
- ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSESDE: 9350 North America;
- GEOGRAPHIC LOCATIONDE: 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 1637 Regional climate change;
- GLOBAL CHANGE