Chapter 4: Climate Change Adaptation Challenges Require Technical Expertise and Data Management

Climate change, sometimes known as global warming, affects society and the economy. Recently, media and public interest to this problem has increased. This chapter, ‘Technical Area and Data Management on Climatic Changes Adaptation Challenges of the 21st Century’, provides a detailed overview of global warming and how society recognises and confronts it locally and worldwide (Kriegler et al., 2014). This chapter examines non-climate modelling approaches to quantify and anticipate complicated climate change effects on populations and ecosystems. It examines how to measure ecosystem vulnerability and how to adapt to climate change. This knowledge also impacts worldwide sustainable development debates. The chapter discusses how social, economic and ecological systems are all impacted by climate change in a variety of ways, leading to significant economic losses that will probably get worse the longer we wait to take action. Because of this, the main goal of this chapter is to encourage planning and capacity building at the local, regional, national and international levels to deal with the effects of climate change at the local, regional, national and international levels. This is done by using a unified approach to improve coordination and develop climate resilience in nations that are more likely to be affected by climate change. Overall, this chapter shows how hard climate change is by looking at both the problems and the chances of adapting to and reducing the effects of climate change.