Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Chapter 3
3.
R
ESILIENCE
M
ETHOD
A
PPLICATION
3.1.
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ESILIENCE OF
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W
ARMING
3.1.1. Introduction
Climate change isn't happening as single phenomena, there are numerous
factors that interact in various ways, creating a new challenge. Furthermore
climate change, superimposed on poverty, exacerbates existing problems.
Whatever threatens the viability of ecosystems also ultimately threatens
human societies, starting with people who most directly rely on natural
resources for their livelihood.
New insights have been gained over last ten years about essential role of
energy resilience for prosperous development of society. A grooving number
of case studies have revealed the tight connection between resilience, diversity
and sustainability of social and ecological systems. Moreover, energy limit
have been identified as one of the 12 most serious environmental problems
facing past and future societies.
The global system resilience refers to the capacity of a global system to
withstand perturbations from e.g. climatic, economic, technological and social
causes and to rebuild and renew itself afterwards
The resilience of global warming is the transient heat and mass transfer
process leading to the increase of atmosphere temperature on our planet. It
comprise a time dependent processes reflecting the heat and mass transfer
processes between the sun and atmosphere.
Resiliency is the ability to avoid, minimize, withstand, and recover from
the effects of adversity, whether natural or man-made, under all circumstances
