The Role of Biodiversity in Addressing the Issues Associated with Poverty and the Impacts of Climate Change
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| Figure 01, An Example of Ecosystem Biodiversity Aerial View (credit to agricultural biodiversity) |
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With all happening in today’s generation,
the significant effects of climate change are tremendously likely to emerge
over the medium to long term because of precise timing and the uncertain
magnitude around the world, especially in the Philippines, that has been
discussed in the author’s article, (Climate
Change “Deniers,” is it?) published in ResearchGate / Academia (15 February 2020). These
uncertainties have been presented of challenges throughout organizations about
the potential effects of climate change within their businesses, strategies,
and financial performance within the biodiversity landscape. However, in order
to appropriately incorporate the potential consequences, the impact of climate
change and experiencing poverty, which will be done through planning processes,
and that need to be considered on how the climate-related risks as well as the
opportunities that may evolve in the implications under the different conditions
through the use of either scenario approach or the vulnerability approach
within the biodiversity in this article.
With above image (Figure 01), as part of the
ecosystem
biodiversity whereas
the role of biodiversity has a significant impact in association of what
poverty we have observed not only in the country, Philippines but around the
world because of the climate change impact on the earth which the author is going
to discuss in this article. However, the author will be using two approaches
such as; scenario and vulnerability approaches that can be done in mitigating
the environmental impact. Moreover, through the conducted series of studies, the
vulnerability approach is most likely can deliver the approachable approach
that people can mitigate through adaptation and will be discussed in details in
the prepared sections in response to the role of biodiversity in addressing the
issues associated with poverty and the impacts
of the climate change in
today’s generation.
Scenario Approach; Assessing Biodiversity Climate
Impacts
With reference to the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1994, the climate change scenario approach
has been defined using the output from one or more climate model experiments
that run through environmental simulation models of evaluated impacts within
the affected vicinity that have been assessed.
Using the scenario approach is an alternative approach for assessing the
possible impacts of climate change within the agricultural
sector as part of the
biodiversity that would follow a bottom-up approach or the adjoint method in
the process whereas the range of the magnitudes of climate change could be
adapted either through environmental or social exposure unit and/or area that
has been affected through.
Accordingly, this approach is a
well-established method for developing input into a strategic plan, and thus,
it will enhance the plan into flexibility or resiliency within a range of
future states. However, the uses of scenario approach analysis in assessing
climate-related risks and the opportunities towards any potential business
implications in the matters. Through the importance of forward-looking
assessments of climate-related risk and information to investors, lenders, and
insurance underwriters believe that the scenario analysis is an essential and
useful tool in combating the impacts.
Vulnerability Approach; Assessing Biodiversity
Climate Impacts
The Climate Change is likely occurring
everywhere and has been experiencing due to the fact of warmer temperatures,
with the increased climate variability, the sea level rise as well as the
extreme weather whereas being placed in increasing pressure to the community
within the infrastructure.
However, in the context of climate change
phenomenon, the infrastructure can be defined as the technical structure that
supports the society whereas the affected roads, sewers, fire roads, the
stormwater drains, and the natural reserves are the vulnerable aspect that can
be found.
The vulnerability-based approach in
assessing climate impacts has sets criteria based on the socio-economic or
biophysical outcomes, then these will determine how likely the mentioned
criteria are to be met or exceeded. Moreover, the climate risks are being described
using either the pathway that can be managed through the policy changes and/or
reducing population exposure of the current and future climate hazards within the
vulnerability areas in sustaining for a sustainable environment.
Climate Impacts constitutes one of the most
significant contemporary environmental
menaces variability impacted the infrastructure where vulnerable pattern
with extreme events such as storms, bushfires, floods, landslide, precipitation
patterns, and drought or through the gradual changes such as air temperature,
rainfall, and solar radiation. The risky events within the environmentally
concerned and value as a result of the negative impact to the government
sector’s economic policy, and thus, the vulnerability of infrastructure is
severe due to extreme weather events implies a high risk to the valuable
economy, the preserved environment, and the social systems.
In these regards, vulnerability approach and
awareness are essential to learning especially by a layman through adaptation
planning whereas either an individual or the community that has the chance to
secure themselves from unwavering climate change impacts. And as discussed brought
in the lesson patterns, the vulnerability approach is very useful in the
adaptation planning method and more appropriate for the Philippine setting of
the following strategies such as; 1) Design
of adaptation strategies in the biodiversity, 2) Prioritization of adaptation strategies in the biodiversity, and 3)
Evaluation of adaptation strategies in
the biodiversity.
Conservation Measures and Approaches to Climate
Impacts
As you can notice, the positions of the
world-leading scientists are very clear that climate change impacts are
happening and the emissions with greenhouse gases from human activities are
mainly responsible. And thus, the adaptation
strategies in
climate change impacts have been studied carefully on how these will be tackled
and being conducted through the vulnerability assessment as conservation
measures in alleviating poverty with the following six steps as; 1) Definition of Scope and Purpose of
Assessment, 2) Description of
People, Areas, and Sector that will be Affected, 3) Assessment of Exposure to Climate Change, 4) Evaluation of Sensitivity to Climate Change, 5) Evaluation of Adaptive Capacity, and 6)
Vulnerability Rating.
However, the assessment of climate
vulnerability, in reality, encompasses various stakeholders; industries,
communities, government environmental regulators and the academia of the
proposed six-steps in climate change vulnerability assessment for a particular
project as defined above.
Therefore, with the conservation measures,
vulnerability approach is clearly defined that can mitigate the ecosystem
biodiversity through the six-step of vulnerability approach in assessing
Climate Impacts on climate change which will be focusing on climate mitigation,
climate adaptation, ecosystems management, energy demand, and storage and
policy development, which, therefore, alleviate the poverty at the same time.
Definition of Scope and Purpose of Assessment
And this is the first step out of the six
steps in the climate change vulnerability assessment that have to provide with an
identification of the people and the areas of interest that to be assessed and
identified what the project is all about.
The purpose is why the project needs to be
evaluated. By providing a framework overall, the task may be understood of the
impact that is being carried out by the team leader to the stakeholder. Upon assessing the context of the scope,
however, the expected output of the conducted assessment are supposed to be the
vulnerable areas within the range of works of definition and has to be carried
out and also, has to be provided with all the list of all areas that have been
assumed as potentially affected within the scope of works.
In doing so, the assessor has its records of
the past climate change-related impacts so that he has the basis on how the
context of the scope will be developed in accordance with the prevailing
situation they are working on. Additionally, the assessor has to provide with
the base maps, demography as well as the covered forest following the context that
is within the scope of work and simplify the issue while preparing the
assessment impact of the project.
However, in assessing the project under this
step, he/she has to be knowledgeable and has ample time to review all the
documents thoroughly. He/she needs to establish the critical informant to be
interviewed in regards to the context of the scope of work for valuable
documentation as well.
After all, upon securing all the information
you need to complete for the project, a peer review has to be conducted through
discussing the matters for a conclusion, and thus, the project concerned has to
be a reliable source relevant to the definition of the scope and the purpose of
the assessment.
As a conclusion and example of the given
task, whereas, considering the purpose of the evaluation, together with the
mission and type of change that has been working on, and it will help to decide
on the questions for guiding in establishing the assessment of the scope. Moreover,
these questions will assist in focusing on the information that needs to be
collected to help to answer all the work based on the definition within the
range and the purpose of doing the assessment.
Description of People, Areas, and Sector that will
be affected
This is the second step out of the six steps
in the climate change vulnerability assessment whereas the primary purpose is
to provide establish baseline conditions and evaluation of non-climate
stressors. There has to be identified in formulating the framework after Step 1
(Definition of Scope and Purpose of Assessment) that had been carried out to
understand the people who are living in the area to be assessed as well as
various sectors that have been affected.
Within the framework of assessment, the
assessor has to provide all the lists of priority with all the impact areas of
concern, so that, in conducting the work will have a harmonious output in
resolving issues resulting in a smooth flow without any burdens between the
parties. And thereby, an individual has to focus on the issue that is being
brought to the table so that the expected output will achieve more success in
accordance with the context of the scope of work within the prescribed sectors.
In doing so, again, the assessor has its
records of the past climate change-related impacts so that he has the basis on
how the context of the scope will be developed further in accordance with the
prevailing situation they are working on. Additionally, the assessor has to
provide with the base maps, demography as well as covered forest whereas the
context is solely for the known people, areas and the sectors that have been
affected. And that will simplify all the issues that have been gathered in
preparing the assessment impact necessary for the project as clearly as
possible.
The procedure, however, after securing all
the output and the data they need, the assessor have to focus within their
group for discussion, brainstorming and participation in the workshops in align
with the historical analysis they’ve brought so that the project concerned has
to be a reliable and justified of the sources relevant to the concerned people,
areas and the sectors that have been affected
As a conclusion and example, it is the
public services that include public goods and governmental services, which are
part of the economy, composed of both public services and public enterprises
for the common good. Also, for example, within the agricultural development
whereas one of the most potent tools to end the extreme poverty, and to boost shared
prosperity.
However, in the agriculture-driven growth, the
poverty reduction, and food security are at risk. And this is due to climate
change that could cut crop yields, especially in the world’s most food-insecure
regions and thereby, a crucial to economic growth. Additionally, considering
the socio-economic approach whereas all genders, health status, technology,
information access, level of education, wealth, accessibility to credit and
political power are the so-called, socio-economic and political factors that have
been used to determine the socioeconomic vulnerability of people.
Assessment of Exposure to Climate Change
As this is the third step out of the six
steps in the climate change vulnerability assessment, the primary purpose is to
provide the evaluation and analysis of the past, the forecasting of the future
climate-related hazards and risks requirements. These are an essential part of
the context of the scope that has to be assessed to get the values and the
differences from the output which have been covered in the simulation of the
future climate scenarios relative in the year 2020/50 and 2080.
In making these exercise effective, the
assessor has to value all the data needed in the context including the records
of the climate-related hazards and the downscaled climate scenarios whereas
have to be assessed of the exposure areas to climate change as well as the
historical records of the context that have to be reviewed to complete the
assessment for a complete project.
Under this step, the assessor has to be
knowledgeable and needs to review all the documents thoroughly whereas whatever
the needs to establish the critical informant that to be interviewed in regards
to the context of the scope of work must be reliable. In valuing the assessment
especially those areas that are said to be exposed to climate change, however, the
GIS/SimCLIM (Geographic Information System) / [SimCLIM is a software modeling system used to link and integrate
complex arrays of data and models in order to simulate (both temporally and
spatially)] is the essential tool in refining the documents as well as having
FGD (Focus Group Discussion) and
workshop that needs to be done and conducted through by discussing the matters
for a conclusion. And hence, the project concerned at the end has to be a
reliable source of relevance to the assessment of exposure to climate change.
As a conclusion and example, it is the
biophysical vulnerability assessment approach with focuses on examining the
destruction level that has caused by a specific environmental disaster on
biological and social systems. Moreover, the estimation of the damages can also
be achieved by creating sensitivity indicators through means of identification for
the potential or real hazards including their frequencies required and so
forth.
Assessment of Sensitivity to Climate Change
The fourth step out of the six stages of the
climate change vulnerability assessment where the primary purpose is providing
identification of areas that will likely be affected by climate change with the
assessment process. Then to identify the sensitive area is using the GIS (Geographic
Information System) analysis tool. Wherein the advantage of this tool is to
identify accurately the concerned sensitivity area and by providing topographic
maps or other maps that will sustain and understand the context assessment as the
scope part of this stage.
Under this step, similar to Assessment of
Exposure to Climate Change, again, the assessor has to be knowledgeable and
needs to review all the documents thoroughly whereas it needs to establish
according to the context of the scope of work for the project they are taking.
However, in valuing the assessment
especially whereas areas are sensitive to climate change, the GIS Geographic
Information System) Analysis Tool in providing this step accurately, which is
the essential part in refining the documents and focusing on the group
discussions will elevate the needs in the impact assessment that has been
conducted into a conclusion. And thus, the project concerned has to be a
reliable source relevant to the evaluation of sensitivity to climate change.
As a conclusion and with the example, it is
the institutional and economic changes of the society that are the key to
shaping the vulnerability of people. Climate prediction models have played a
vital role in generating forecasts that are being used to estimate whatever
damage caused by environmental stresses within the biodiversity.
Assessment of Adaptive Capacity
This is the fifth step out of the six steps
in the climate change vulnerability assessment whereas the primary purpose is by
providing an evaluation of the past responses to the climate-related hazards. The
assessment of the critical indicators of adaptive capacity involving the HDI (Human
Development Index), the population density, the road density, the social
networks, and the IKS (Inventurus Knowledge Solutions) are the data needed in
the development of the adaptive capacity figures. In doing so, the adaptive
capacity maps are necessary to align with the identification of the people and
the areas of interest which have to be assessed within the context of
assignment for the project task.
Under this step, similar to the previous
levels, the assessor has to be knowledgeable and essential to review all the
documents thoroughly whereas they have to establish the critical informant that
to be interviewed in regards to the context of the scope of work. In valuing
the assessment especially whereas areas are means to adaptive capacity
assessment within the variability of the climate change. However, the GIS (Geographic
Information System) Analysis is the essential tool in refining the documents as
well as having FGD (Focus Group Discussion)
and workshop that needs to be conducted through discussing the matters for a
conclusion, and thus, the project concerned has to be a reliable source
relevance to the assessment of adaptive capacity.
As a conclusion and with the example, it is
the internal characteristics of individuals or the communities which are used
to identify their adaptive capacity in the socio-economic vulnerability
assessment approach. The evaluation of the damages can also be achieved by
creating sensitivity indicators through the identification of potential or real
hazards including their frequencies. Accordingly, the primary determinant of
the adaptive capacity of each household, or the communities in reducing risk,
and this is to cope with and adapt to adverse impacts of climate change is
their asset. However, the adaptive capacity indicators will be collectively
grouped as social-economic capacity indicators which include social capital
referring with share of farmers in farm organizations, human capital which is
the literacy rate, financial capital which is the farm income, a farm asset
that is access to credit and the physical capital which is the infrastructure
index.
Vulnerability Rating
This is the last step out of the six steps
in the climate change vulnerability assessment where the primary purpose is
providing an evaluation of the degree of vulnerability of the peoples, of the
places, and the resources being held within the context. The vulnerability maps
will be the output in securing the essential purpose for the task assigned
resulting from the previous steps being gathered of the context of the scope of
work. However, the GIS (Geographic Information System) Analysis is the critical
tool for refining the documents as well as having participatory in the workshop
that needs to have a peer review through discussing the matters for a
conclusion, and thus, the project concerned has to be a reliable source relevant
to the vulnerability rating purpose.
As a conclusion and example, it is the
vulnerability that has been determined by integrating both the socio-economic
and biophysical approaches. However, the different variables of the unknown
weights are being used in this approach has no common metric in assessing the
relative significance of individual variable or the relevance of the social and
the biophysical vulnerability.
Conclusion
With all the above pertaining steps, the
author can conclude with the simplified approaches for assessing the
vulnerability of infrastructure to climate change impact in alleviating poverty
which is more favorable. And thus, the Vulnerability Approach is preferable
compared to the Scenario Approach because of using adaptation and mitigation in
combating climate change impacts in the agricultural ecosystem biodiversity
that has been defined through in this article paper provided.
Vulnerability Approach simply demonstrates
the landscape perspective especially on the agriculture ecosystem biodiversity
as well as with the natural resources with a more pragmatic approach involving
community-based natural resource management, strong partnerships, and
flexibility in fulfillment to conserve biodiversity sustainably. The major
actors in conservation and agriculture biodiversity are recognizing the
critical contribution that we can say it through biodiversity that can make to
human livelihoods, food, and nutrition.
Through this, a deeper understanding of how
social, ecological, commercial and financial sectors, as well as the cultural
movements, can mobilize biodiversity’s contribution to food security as well as
poverty reduction, particularly in view of climate change threats. And thus,
biodiversity can be both the safeguarded that will put to use within a
sustainable context and a resilient agriculture that will meet multiple needs
especially for the food production, the environmental restoration, and the
preservation, as well as to improve the livelihood within the rural people in
alleviating poverty through with these mitigation and adaptation process.
Overall, the author may say that through
Vulnerability Approach as mentioned and discussed above are the facts as the
based reference on where they have provided and sustain biodiversity, which is
a developing model of agriculture ecosystem biodiversity with smallholder
farmers and partners that maximize agricultural sustainability, productivity,
and conservation objectives, emphasizing the bridge between agriculture and
conservation with biodiversity as a key link that will have a sustainable
ecosystem. Again, it is based on the conceptual principles and methodologies as
defined from all the materials gathered for environmental preservation in
securing food security-enhancing through Vulnerability Approach using
adaptation and mitigation, and thus, ensuring agricultural farming that will
remain productive and healthy in the coming generations in meeting their needs
through sustainable agriculture ecosystem biodiversity as well as using the
Climate-Smart Agriculture as the latest technology in mitigating and adaptation
approach in the field.
Write-Up
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