The long arm of climate change: societal teleconnections and the future of climate change impacts studies.

ABSTRACT: "Societal teleconnections" - analogous to physical teleconnections such as El Niño - are human-created linkages that link activities, trends, and disruptions across large distances, such that locations spatially separated from the locus of an event can experience a variety of impacts from it nevertheless. In the climate change context, such societal teleconnections add a layer of risk that is currently neither fully appreciated in most impacts or vulnerability assessments nor in on-the-ground adaptation planning. Conceptually, societal teleconnections arise from the interactions among actors, and the institutions that guide their actions, affecting the movement of various substances through different structures and processes. Empirically, they arise out o

SUBMITTER: Moser SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7088147 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature