Abstract
The climate is changing constantly, and this change is affecting millions of people to encounter extreme challenges to health, migration, water security, livelihood security, cultural identity, food security, and many other related risks. Climate change is deeply entangled with global patterns of inequality affecting beyond 375 million people every year with an escalation of 50% as compared to the previous decade. This increase is giving rise to social issues such as poverty, unemployment, unequal opportunities, racism, and malnutrition, which are affecting many people. The investigation and analysis of social issues is an important research theme as it is significant to make people think of ways and approaches for problem solving through critical thinking and mitigation approaches. One of the major effects of climate change is that our social harmony is disturbed, and it is giving space to hostility and suspicion. It has caused large-scale social dissatisfaction and created suffering and misery. In this chapter, we summarized the trepidations of climate change and social concerns that are penetrating in developing countries. The study calls attention to the inevitability to develop and spread evidence-based interventions to combat the risk in the wake of climate change. There is a dire need to promote social cohesion and community resilience to mitigate the possibility of social conflict in changing climate.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
ACC (2011) America’s climate choices. national academies press, https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12781/americas-climate-choices
Ali S, Eum H et al (2019) Assessment of climate extremes in future projections downscaled by multiple statistical downscaling methods over Pakistan. Atmos Res 222:114–133
Cohen B (2021) Corrigendum to ‘Co-benefits and trade-offs of climate change mitigation actions and the Sustainable Development Goals.’ Sustain Prod Consum 26:805–813
Currie J, Deschênes O (2016) The future of children. Child Clim Change 26(1):3–9. https://doi.org/10.1080/00045608.2014.968892. S2CID 129057246
EPA (2009) Inventory of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and sinks: 1990–2007. Environmental protection agency, https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/inventory-us-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-sinks-1990-2007
Fahad S et al (2019) Suppressing photorespiration for the improvement in photosynthesis and crop yields: a review on the role of S-allantoin as a nitrogen source. J Environ Manag 237:644–651
Hammad MH et al (2020) Comparative effects of organic and inorganic fertilizers on soil organic carbon and wheat productivity under arid region. Commun Soil Sci Plant Anal 51(10):1406–1422
Hashmi MZ et al (2020) Arsenic distribution and metabolism genes abundance in Paddy soils from Punjab and Sindh provinces, Pakistan. Arab J Geosci 13:526
Heidari H, Arabi M, Warziniack T, Kao S-C (2020) Assessing shifts in regional hydroclimatic conditions of U.S. River basins in response to climate change over the 21st century. Earth’s Future 8(10). https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EF001657. ISSN 2328-4277
Hussain S et al (2020a) Study of land cover/land use changes using RS and GIS: a case study of Multan district. Pakistan Environ Monitor Assess 192(2):1–15
Hussain S et al (2020b) Using GIS tools to detect the land use/land cover changes during forty years in Lodhran District of Pakistan. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27:39676–39692
IPCC (2011) Intergovernmental panel on climate change. https://www.ipcc.ch/
IPCC (2019) Pörtner H-O, Roberts D, Masson-Delmotte V, Zhai P (2019) IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Retrieved from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_climate_change_on_humans
John PD, Stouffer RJ, John JG (2013) Heat stress reduces labor capacity under climate warming. Geophys Fluid Dyn Lab 3(6):563. https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1827
Kabir MI, Rahman MB, Smith W, Lusha MAF, Milton AH (2016) Climate change and health in Bangladesh: a baseline cross-sectional survey. Glob Health Action 9:29609. https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v9.29609
Kundzewicz ZW (2007) Freshwater resources and their management. In: Parry ML et al (eds) Climate change 2007: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York, pp 173–210. Retrieved 20 May 2009
Lunde TM, Lindtjørn B (2013) Cattle and climate in Africa: How climate variability has influenced national cattle holdings from 1961-2008. PeerJ 1(1):55. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.55. PMC 3629083. PMID 23638393
McMichael J, McMichael A, Campbell-Lendrum D, Corvalan C, Ebi K, Githeko A, Scheraga J (2003) Global climate change and health: an old story Writ large. World Health Organization. ISBN 9789241562485
McMichael AJ, Woodruff R, Hales S (2006) Climate change and human health: present and future risks. Lancet 367(9513):859–869. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68079-3. PMID 16530580. S2CID 11220212
Mehmood A et al (2021) Exploring the potential of moringa leaf extract as bio stimulant for improving yield and quality of black cumin oil. Sci Rep 11:24217
Mubeen M et al (2020) Evaluating the climate change impacts on water requirements of cotton-wheat in semi-arid conditions using DSSAT model. J Water Clim Change 11(4):1661–1675
Munich Climate-Insurance Initiative (2013) Climate change and rising weather related disasters. Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 30 August 2013
NASA (2016) Climate change and global warming. NASA, https://climate.nasa.gov/
National Climate Assessment (2019) U.S. global change research program, https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/
Qasim MZ et al (2020) The potential applications of picotechnology in biomedical and environmental sciences. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27:133–142
Rasool A et al (2020a) Microbial diversity response in thallium polluted riverbank soils of the Lanmuchang. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf 187:109854
Rasool A et al (2020b) Quantification of Tl (I) and Tl (III) based on microcolumn separation through ICP-MS in river sediment pore water. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27:9686–9696
Rasool A et al (2021) Microbial diversity and community structure in Alpine Stream Soil. Geomicrobiol J 38(3):210–219
Rehman MH et al (2021) Influence of semi-arid environment on radiation use efficiency and other growth attributes of lentil crop. Environ Sci Pollut Res 28:13697–13711
Ryan M (2014, May 15) Major winter weather events during the 2013-2014 cold season (PDF). NOAA/NWS/Weather Prediction Center. Retrieved 28 November 2018
Sahney S, Benton MJ, Falcon-Lang HJ (2010a) Rainforest collapse triggered Pennsylvanian tetrapod diversification in Euramerica. Geology 38(12):1079–1082. https://doi.org/10.1130/G31182.1. S2CID 128642769
Sahney S, Benton MJ, Ferry PA (2010b) Links between global taxonomic diversity, ecological diversity and the expansion of vertebrates on land. Biol Lett 6(4):544–547. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2009.1024. PMC 2936204. PMID 20106856. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2009.1024
Sekerci Y, Petrovskii S (2018) Global warming can lead to depletion of oxygen by disrupting phytoplankton photosynthesis: A mathematical modelling approach. Geosciences 8(6):201. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences8060201. ISSN 2076-3263
Shah GM et al (2019) Composting of mu municipal solid waste by different methods improved the growth of vegetables and reduced the health risks of cadmium and lead. Environ Sci Pollut Res 26(06):5463–5474
Shahid MA et al (2020) Insights into the physiological and biochemical impacts of salt stress on plant growth and development. Agronomy 10:938
Shahzad K et al (2018) Tillage and biochar effects on wheat productivity under arid conditions. Crop Sci 59:1–9
Tang Y, Zhong S, Luo L, Bian X, Heilman WE, Winkler J (2015) The potential impact of regional climate change on fire weather in the United States. Ann Assoc Am Geogr 105(1):121
UNDP (2007) Human development report 2007/2008. United nations development programme, https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-report-20072008
Wang D, Fahad S et al (2019) Morphological acclimation to agronomic manipulation in leaf dispersion and orientation to promote “Ideotype” breeding: evidence from 3D visual modeling of “super” rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plant Physiol Biochem 135:499–510
WHO (2009) World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/
WHO (2019) World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/
Wilbanks TJ (2007) Industry, settlement and society. In: Parry ML et al (eds) Climate change 2007: impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge/New York. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 20 May 2009
Xu C, Lenton M, Timothy, Svenning J-C, Scheffer M (2020) Future of the human climate niche. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 117(21):11350–11355. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910114117. PMC 7260949. PMID 32366654
Zainab N et al (2020) Deciphering metal toxicity responses of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) with exopolysaccharide and ACC-deaminase producing bacteria in industrially contaminated soils. Plant Physiol Biochem 152:90–99
Zamin M, et al (2020) Developing the first halophytic turfgrasses for the urban landscape from native Arabian desert grass. Environ Sci Pollut Res 27:39702–39716
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2023 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Qaisrani, S.A. et al. (2023). Climate Change and Social Concerns. In: Jatoi, W.N., Mubeen, M., Hashmi, M.Z., Ali, S., Fahad, S., Mahmood, K. (eds) Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26692-8_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26692-8_3
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-26691-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-26692-8
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)