Title :
A digital information ecosystem structure for regional climate change assessment and adaptation
Author :
Hussain, Omar ; Perdomo, Antuaned ; Dillon, Tharam ; Chang, Elizabeth
Author_Institution :
Digital Ecosyst. & Bus. Intell. Inst., Curtin Univ. of Technol., Perth, WA, Australia
Abstract :
Global warming is one of the most important and challenging problems being faced this century, capable of triggering a series of events that will have serious consequences on the different ecosystems on planet Earth. In order to manage such consequences, we need dedicated actions for resilience. In such a scenario, the process of adaptation to climate change plays an important part. This is achieved by first identifying the various events of risks, assessing the level of their impacts, and then developing policies by which they can be mitigated. For effective adaptation, the events of global warming should be identified and assessed on a regional scale. In this paper, we propose a digital information ecosystem architecture for climate change adaptability. The proposed architecture will capture the different regional factors of global warming which can then be linked together to produce effective macro adaptation policies.
Keywords :
Earth; design for environment; ecology; global warming; risk analysis; Earth; climate change adaptability; digital information ecosystem architecture; global warming; macro adaptation policy; regional climate change assessment; risk identification; Australia; Earth; Ecosystems; Global warming; Humans; Intelligent structures; Planets; Resilience; Sun; Temperature; Adaptation; Climate Change; Global Warming; Macro impacts; Micro Impacts; Multi-system;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies, 2009. DEST '09. 3rd IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2345-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2346-0
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2009.5276682