EQ3 - responses from different players at different scales - due to large - scale release of carbon

Question 1

what are adaptation strategies and name all the adaptation strategies?

Answer 1

adaptation is when we work with/ adjust to the changes due to planetary warring e.g. sea defenses.

-water conservation
- resilient agricultural systems
- land - use planning
- flood-risk management
- solar radiation management

Question 2

what is water conservation and give the pros and cons ?

Answer 2

water conservation the practice of using water efficiently to reduce unnecessary water usage.

pros-
reduces water water wastage
reduces ground abstraction
allows aquifers to recharge

cons -
efficency cannot meet the demand of water
hard to get everyone to commit policies due to habit

example - Singapore, Cape Town - reduced use by 30%

Question 3

what is resilient agricultural systems and give the pros and cons of them? 1

Answer 3

resilient agricultural systems are farming methods that withstand environmental, economic, and social challenges. e.g. drip irrigation, agroforesty

pro -
higher tech
drought tolerant crops - good for subsitence farming
better practices may lead to more healthier soils

cons -
expensive technology disadavantages poor e.g gmo
Knowledge Gap: Farmers may need education to adopt new techniques.

Question 4

what is land use planning and its pro and cons? 1

Answer 4

land-use planning process of regulating the use of land by a central authority to promote more desirable social and environmental outcomes

pros -
building restricition on flood plains
maintains biodiversity - not cutting certain trees/area
not invasive

cons -
strong enforcement needed,strong governance,
compensation for rehousing people
needs public support

Question 5

what is flood risk managament and the pros and cons?

Answer 5

flood risk managment are wages to reduce flooding

pros -
simple changes reduces flood risk.
reduced deforestation and more afforestation.

cons -
funding issues, nibism,
land owners may want compensation, constant mainatance of hard and soft engineering.

Question 6

what is solar radiation management and it’s pro and cons. 1

Answer 6

a type of enginnering that uses mirrors to reflect albedo/ heat out into space to reduce planetary warming.

pros -
counteracts global warming
may reduce global tempreture,

cons -
expensive and complex and only impacts ghg. - may lead to more regional warming due to mirrors

Question 7

what are mitigation strategies and name all the mitigation strategies?

Answer 7

mitigation stratagies are ways to stop global warming in the first place

-carbon taxation
- renewable switching
- energy efficiency
- afforestation
- carbon capture

Question 8

what is carbon taxation and its pros and cons? 2

Answer 8

putting a tax for exceeding a limit on co2 emmison,

pros -
more goverment revenue and reduces co2 as co2 more expensive, increases green technology use

cons -
major loop holes and selling of pollution permits, enforcement costs

Question 9

what is renewable switching and its pros and cons ?2

Answer 9

moving from fossil fuels to reneable enegys sources

pros-
reduces co2 emmisons, less dependency on fossil fuels

cons -
cannot meet demand, unreliable, costs to create turbinds etc and make co2 when in producation initially

Question 10

what is energy efficiency and its pros and cons?

Answer 10

changing appliances and goods to be less energy intensive

pros-
less co2 relased for same usuage
cost effective - UK Green deal

cons -
increased cost e.g changing boiler , more regulation, maybe more expensive,

Question 11

What is the pros and cons of afforestry? 2

Answer 11

pros - acts as carbon sink, co2 is absobed, acts as sea defence as mangroves, cheap to implement

cons - time, regulation of deforestaion, maintence

Question 12

what is carbon capture and its