Social Impacts of Climate Change

In the next set of chapters, students investigate major societal impacts of climate change. First, students explain the major impact, including its main components. What impacts in the topic are being felt now and where are they being felt? What does the future look like in relation to your topic? Next, students connected their social topic to the climate systems involved in the impacts. Finally, students explored actions that regions are taking to both adapt to these impacts and to try to mitigate future impacts.

In Chapter 5, a team of students explores the reciprocal relationship of how climate affects food systems and how agricultural practices in turn affect climate systems. The reliance on water for drinking water, agricultural systems, and ecosystems and changes in water systems related to climate are presented in Chapter 6. Students examine climate impacts on human health via spread of infectious disease with increased precipitation and temperature in Chapter 7. In Chapter 8, students in  explain that inequalities related to climate change are exacerbated for citizens, especially women, in Majority World countries suffer greater risks and loss than citizens in Minority World countries.