Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions
[eng] 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...
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ftunillesbalears:oai:dspace.uib.es:11201/156834 2023-05-15T17:51:50+02:00 Climate change and its 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 application/pdf application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document http://hdl.handle.net/11201/156834 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 unknown Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 Regional Environmental Change, 2021, vol. 21, num. 107, p. 1-19 http://hdl.handle.net/11201/156834 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 info:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess 33 - Economia 57 - Biologia 33 - Economics. Economic science 57 - Biological sciences in general cambio climático Mediterranean islands impacts Climate change mitigation Climate change adaptation info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion ftunillesbalears https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 2022-01-26T00:11:20Z [eng] 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. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification UIB Repositori (University of the Balearic Islands) Regional Environmental Change 21 4 |
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[eng] 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. |
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Torres, Cati Jordà, Gabriel de Vílchez, Pau Vaquer-Sunyer, Raquel Rita, Juan Canals, Vincent Cladera, Antoni Escalona, José M. Miranda, Miguel Ángel |
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Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions |
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Climate change and its impacts in the Balearic Islands: a guide for policy design in Mediterranean regions |
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Versió postprint del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 Regional Environmental Change, 2021, vol. 21, num. 107, p. 1-19 http://hdl.handle.net/11201/156834 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-021-01810-1 |
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