Impacts of Climate Change on Biophysical Environment

This article discusses the impacts of climate change on the biophysical environment, including melting glaciers, rising sea levels, biodiversity loss, and natural disasters. It also evaluates responses at different scales, explores the spatial and ecological dimensions, and examines the four components of the biophysical environment. The importance of understanding these aspects in geography is emphasized.

Geography

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................2
Explain the impacts of climate change on the biophysical environment...............................2
Evaluate responses at two different scales.............................................................................2
Spatial and ecological dimensions..........................................................................................2
Four components of biophysical environment.......................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Biophysical environment can be defined as the environment which affects the living as well
as well non-living beings that influences the development, evolution and survival (Jouffray,
Wedding, Norström and Kappel, 2019). The following discussion is made on the impacts on
climate change on the biophysical environment, responses at two different scales, spatial and
ecological dimensions and components of biophysical environment with proper findings and
conclusion.
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MAIN BODY
Explain the impacts of climate change on the biophysical environment
Climate change has a direct and profound impact on the biophysical environment because
rapid change in the temperature results in a following disaster such as melting glaciers, rising sea
level, biodiversity loss and increase in natural disaster (Liu, Wang, Evans and Beyer, 2019). It is
needed to be controlled by adopting various measures to manage the climate change as it can be
totally or partially in the hands of the human beings to take measures to heal the situations by
making less pollutions of air, water and noise. It happens due to the increase of population and
usage of those materials which harms the environment and it loses its sustainability.
Evaluate responses at two different scales
At national level, one factor that is commonly ignored when evaluating the environmental
impacts of climate that is the smart agriculture is the biophysical impacts, where variations in
ecosystem fluctuates and storing of moisture and energy result in perturbations in
local climate and water accessibility. At global level, increased heat, drought and insect
eruptions, all connected to climate variation, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water
provisions, condensed agricultural yields, health influences in cities due to warmth and flooding
and erosion in seaside areas are extra worries. This harmful impression of globalization on
climate is mainly due to increased greenhouse gas emissions. The main straight sources of
greenhouse gas emissions are energy supply, manufacturing production and transportation
(Hedlund, Fick, Carlsen and Benzie, 2018).
Spatial and ecological dimensions
Spatial dimensions can be defined as the things which are present in the biophysical
environment, how it is being emerged, why and where it has occurred. It defines the whole
evaluation of the biophysical environment in order to generate the predictions and future
considerations related to the climate change which can sometimes proves to be a disaster one.
Ecological dimensions can be defined as the interaction between the biophysical environment
and the human beings that how they create the relationship among them and how they are
maintaining the same to gain the positive impact out of it (Kpienbaareh, Bezner Kerr, Luginaah
and Shumba, 2020).
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Four components of biophysical environment
There are four components of biophysical environment such as atmosphere, hydrosphere,
lithosphere and biosphere. They generally include the atmospheric processes, climate
components and climate variations (Marques, Mendes, Mutti and Ramos, 2020). All such
components interact with each other in the physical environment to form the proper climate
culture either nationally or internationally because they involve all forms through which
environment formulates such as water, air and human beings. Type of relationship between them
specifies the positive and negative impacts on the environment because they are totally
responsible for the change in climatic nature in the biophysical environment.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that biophysical environment plays the major role in the geography which is
considered an important aspect to study about. Therefore, it is essential to analyse the impacts of
climate change on the biophysical environment, it is necessary to examine the responses at two
different scales, it is significant to determine the spatial and ecological dimensions and it is
crucial to investigate about the components of biophysical environment. Hence, this report
covers all such important areas to better understand the concept of biophysical environment.
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