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Abstract: This chapter will explore some of the more personal questions that climate change raises for individuals and their families. How will climate change impact you and your family in the coming decades? The transition to a low-carbon economy is inevitable this century, and indeed it...

Abstract: This chapter discusses how climate change affects agriculture, which plays a major role in providing food for a growing global population. Climate has an impact on agriculture through the effects of such variables as solar radiation, temperature, and rainfall. Moreover, extreme events such as heatwaves, frosts, wind storms, floods, and droughts can have catastrophic effects on agriculture. The chapter also looks into the process of achieving optimal climatic conditions for crops and livestock. It provides an overview of the impacts of climate change in line with the development of climate change adaptation strategies dedicated to agriculture, particularly the wine sector.

Abstract: This chapter discusses the notion of victimhood as this pertains to climate change. Each section deals with a specific victim category — non-human environmental entities, children and young people, and Indigenous communities. Each grouping has its own specific histories, stories, and issues. What perhaps unites the discussion is an underlying emphasis on adopting an ecocentric perspective that incorporates social and ecological justice. From a human perspective, ecocentrism attempts to strike a balance between the need to utilise resources for human survival and the need to develop rules that facilitate the benign use of the ecosphere. Thus, for example, ensuring the preservation of biocentric values becomes integral to maintaining long-term human needs. To do this means minimising the victimisation of both the human and the non-human — in essence, to assert a form of ecological citizenship.

Abstract: This chapter provides an overview of the interplay of environmental hazards and climate change. It focuses on the relationship between environmental hazards, natural disasters, and anthropogenic climate change. The nature and causes of the increased occurrence and intensity of environmental hazards provide further understanding for developing effective adaptation strategies. The chapter also considers how communities can respond to the increased frequency and intensity of extreme events across a range of different areas. Moreover, adaptation to the effects of climate change on the occurrence and intensity of environmental hazards requires detailed knowledge of the underlying processes responsible for their occurrence.

Abstract: Extreme weather is the earliest manifestation of climate change that most people will be exposed to. This chapter will focus on what science tells us about the remarkable spate of once-in-a-century (and rarer) extreme weather events we have observed in the last few years. It...

Abstract: This introductory chapter provides an overview of the concept of Climate Change Criminology. Climate Change Criminology rests upon the four pillars of crime and harm; global connectedness and ecological justice; causes and consequences; and power and interests. These are separate but inextricably linked domains of analysis, interpretation, and critique. Each area demands novel ways of thinking about the problem, employing methods and approaches that necessarily push the boundaries of contemporary criminological theory and the purview of modern criminal justice institutions. In several important respects, Climate Change Criminology parallels work which focuses on ‘social harm’ as a constitutive concept. What makes a social harm ‘social’ is the fact that it does not stem from natural causes; it is intrinsically caused by humans. Analysis and response to this is central to the project of Climate Change Criminology.