Environment And Society Assesment Report

Running head: ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Issues of Contemporary Environment in the context of Climate change...................................2
Social dimension of Mitigations and Adaptations.....................................................................5
Governance and Policy...........................................................................................................6
Social and Institutional context..............................................................................................7
Technology.............................................................................................................................7
Decarbonization......................................................................................................................8
Future applications and research............................................................................................9
Conclusion................................................................................................................................10
References:...............................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Climate plays a major role in supporting global life. It has the capacity to be the ultimate
fundamental factor in making the environment and living beings dependent upon it. However, change
in climate reflects an efficient change in the environment as well as human adaptation according its
change. Climate change is the change that is recognized through the transformation of weather
patterns that further leads to the endangerment of food production, elevation or rapid rising of sea
levels. Moreover, it increases immeasurable risk of flooding. These impacts the Earth in the global
context. Following to such drastic shift in the climate, humans either adapt or reduce the issues by
incorporating innovative and effective ways that will help the natural habitat, animal life as well as the
human settlements sustainable.
The essay focus on the deliverance of the evaluations made on the basis of contemporary
environmental issue from a social science perspective. The paper further aims to provide in depth
analysis along with demonstrations of the world views and values towards the climate change and
how these views shape up the relationship with the natural environment. The paper further provides
the comparative study regarding different opinions and viewpoints relating to the conceptualisation of
the relationship between humans and the environment within the context of the issues of climate
change issues. The paper discusses all these point with respect to the theories of moral and social
science along with the solutions and recommendation that converges to resolve the issues caused by
climate change in the contemporary environment.
Issues of Contemporary Environment in the context of Climate change
Climate change is a global problem. It is predominantly evident in case of emissions of GHG
that knows no limitations. The high concentration of the green house gases in the atmosphere
effectively impacts global lives as well as the environment. In order to address these issues and
control it for betterment of the surrounding, human involvement and their innovative sustainable
practice towards the concerns of the betterment of the environment is immensely required. There are
alternative means through which the global nature of the change in climate can be understood and

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addressed (Bulkeley and Newell 2015). It is evident that all animals, plant and human life on the
planet Earth is dependent upon the warming capacity of the green house gases in order to maintain a
climate that is habitable. However, it is the green house effect that happens to record in resulting the
abundance of life on this planet. It is to mention that the global mean temperature has accounted to
witness sharp rise over the last century (Bulkeley and Newell 2015). Carbon di oxide is recognized
to be the most abundant green house gas and the fact that its changes in the CO2 composition in the
atmosphere led to global warming.
As per the IPCC reports, the climate changes are modelled according to the global concerns
that is energy and economic growth, on the basis of which human reproduce, use land, introduces
technological innovations and changes and significantly emits green house gases. Following to the
projection of relevant factors, there is a threat witnessed towards the disruption of atmospheric
conditions as well as the oceanic systems that significant control or regulate the weather patterns
(Bulkeley and Newell 2015). These lead to make number of endangerment of bio geophysical
shifts. And only pours major consequences in the social changes that are seen with certainty.
The ecosystem that associates the context of terrestrial as well as aquatic grounds are also
seen to be impacted such as reduced facilitation of the ecosystem services, extinction of species, and
biodiversity in the biological aspects and displacements of the environmental aspects. The
understanding of the Climate Change from the perspective of social science results in the
identification of significant areas where it requires scientific investigation (Bulkeley and Newell
2015).. It includes the identification on the basis of the human activities that are associated with the
transformation of the environment on Earth. Following it, certain forces that are responsible to drive
these activities are also identified. It further identifies the consequences and the changes in the
environment in the context of economic and social concerns. The scientific investigation reveals how
humans respond to these changes. As per the reports of IPCC and NAS, it is recognized that the
change in global climate is basically a social problem (Bulkeley and Newell 2015).. Even the
implementation of technical system or technological applications will not be able to resolve the issues