GC094
Vulnerability Assessment of Human Systems in a Changing Environment

Session ID#: 80712

Session Description:
Human systems such as agriculture, energy and other infrastructures are highly vulnerable to environmental changes given their intricate links with the natural environment. This susceptibility of human systems is likely to increase with more extreme temperature and precipitation regimes. Understanding the direct and indirect impacts of these climatic changes requires thorough, interdisciplinary investigations of the complex linkages between natural and human systems. This session invites presentations of results that use observational, experimental, and/or advanced modeling tools to evaluate the vulnerability of human systems from changes in the natural environment. Potential topics for this session include but are not limited to: spatial or temporal analyses of urban energy budgets, agriculture, transportation network, infrastructure, or human health, with variations in the mean or extreme climatic conditions in the near- or long-term future periods.
Index Terms:

1616 Climate variability [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1626 Global climate models [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1637 Regional climate change [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Primary Convener:  Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
Convener:  Venkata Shashank Konduri, Northeastern University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Boston, MA, United States
Primary Liaison:  Deeksha Rastogi, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN, United States
 
An extreme weather event has intensified economic disparity in Mongolia (528559)
Kaoru Kakinuma, Shanghai University, Asian Demographic Research Institute, Shanghai, China, Kohei Tamura, Tohoku University, Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Sendai, Japan, Hiroki Takikawa, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan and Hiroshi Nakamura, Sanyo-Onoda City University, Sanyo-Onoda, Japan
 
Assessing Impacts of Climatic and Non-climatic Factors on Smallholder Agricultural Systems in India (Invited) (548973)
Pinki Mondal1, Meha Jain2, Deepti Singh3, Callie McFadden1, Gillian L Galford4 and Ruth S DeFries5, (1)University of Delaware, Newark, DE, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (3)Washington State University Vancouver, Vancouver, WA, United States, (4)University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, United States, (5)Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, New York, NY, United States
 
Pushing the Boundaries: Anticipating How Human and Natural Systems Will Respond to Rare Extremes (Invited) (625369)
Radley M Horton, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States, Corey Samuel Lesk, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada, Ethan Coffel, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, United States and Colin Raymond, Columbia University of New York City, New York, NY, United States
 
A pattern of sensible heat flux shift in community scale for analysing urban thermal vulnerability (633612)
You Jin Kwon, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of (South), Dong-Kun Lee, Seoul National Universiy, Seoul, South Korea and You Ha Kwon, TS Plastic Surgery Hospital, Department of Rehabilitation, Seoul, South Korea
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