Climate change and their impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions
Understanding the local effects of global warming-derived impacts is important to island systems due to their fragile environmental conditions. This is especially true when it comes to Mediterranean insular regions as they are climate change (CC) hotspots where adaptation and mitigation policy desig...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:8536903 2023-05-15T17:51:38+02:00 Climate change and their impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions Torres, Cati Jordà, Gabriel de Vílchez, Pau Vaquer-Sunyer, Raquel Rita, Juan Canals, Vincent Cladera, Antoni Escalona, José M. Miranda, Miguel Ángel 2021-10-23 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536903/ https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 en eng Springer Berlin Heidelberg http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8536903/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. Reg Environ Change Review Text 2021 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 2021-10-31T00:36:00Z Understanding the local effects of global warming-derived impacts is important to island systems due to their fragile environmental conditions. This is especially true when it comes to Mediterranean insular regions as they are climate change (CC) hotspots where adaptation and mitigation policy design is an urgent matter. Looking at 2030 as a time horizon for climate action and focusing on the Balearic Islands, this paper reviews the physical changes projected for the coming decades as a result of CC and analyses their impacts on regional environmental, economic and social variables. Mitigation and adaptation measures are also proposed based on the identified priority impacts. The fact the Balearics are a top world holiday destination allows the analysis to serve as a guide to other Mediterranean islands with tourism-based economies facing similar CC scenarios. Results show the projected rise of temperature and sea level; the reduction of the average precipitation and increase in evapotranspiration, the droughts and the increase in ocean acidification and deoxygenation are the main threats faced by the Balearics, this putting their economy at risk due to the high tourism’s vulnerability to CC. Mitigation and adaptation action on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, water resources, energy, infrastructure and urban planning, human health, economy, law and education is recommended. Sustainable mobility and waste managing are also viewed as important fields for mitigation action. Conclusions show that diversifying the current socioeconomic model is needed to increase the community and territory resilience. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1. Text Ocean acidification PubMed Central (PMC) Regional Environmental Change 21 4 |
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Understanding the local effects of global warming-derived impacts is important to island systems due to their fragile environmental conditions. This is especially true when it comes to Mediterranean insular regions as they are climate change (CC) hotspots where adaptation and mitigation policy design is an urgent matter. Looking at 2030 as a time horizon for climate action and focusing on the Balearic Islands, this paper reviews the physical changes projected for the coming decades as a result of CC and analyses their impacts on regional environmental, economic and social variables. Mitigation and adaptation measures are also proposed based on the identified priority impacts. The fact the Balearics are a top world holiday destination allows the analysis to serve as a guide to other Mediterranean islands with tourism-based economies facing similar CC scenarios. Results show the projected rise of temperature and sea level; the reduction of the average precipitation and increase in evapotranspiration, the droughts and the increase in ocean acidification and deoxygenation are the main threats faced by the Balearics, this putting their economy at risk due to the high tourism’s vulnerability to CC. Mitigation and adaptation action on terrestrial and marine ecosystems, water resources, energy, infrastructure and urban planning, human health, economy, law and education is recommended. Sustainable mobility and waste managing are also viewed as important fields for mitigation action. Conclusions show that diversifying the current socioeconomic model is needed to increase the community and territory resilience. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1. |
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Climate change and their impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions |
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