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ReviewEnvironmental monitoring and assessment2019

A comprehensive review of climate change impacts, adaptation, and mitigation on environmental and natural calamities in Pakistan.

Mudassar Hussain, Abdul Rahman Butt, Faiza Uzma, Rafay Ahmed, Samina Irshad, Abdul Rehman, Balal Yousaf

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Review in Environmental monitoring and assessment, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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27citing papers in PubMed
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed, 301 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Mudassar HussainSchool of Economics and Management, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210094, People's Republic of China.
Abdul Rahman ButtSchool of Public Affairs, University of Science and Technology of, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China.
Faiza UzmaHefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, 230026, People's Republic of China.
Rafay AhmedCAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and the Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China.
Samina IrshadCAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and the Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China.
Abdul RehmanCAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and the Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China.
Balal YousafCAS Key Laboratory of Crust-Mantle Materials and the Environments, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, 230026, People's Republic of China. balal@ustc.edu.cn.
University of Science and Technology of China · CNCAS Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion · CNNanjing University of Science and Technology · CN

Funding

CAS-Young Scientist Award (2018FYB0002)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2018M632552)Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (WK2080000103)
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The devastations and damages caused by climate change are apparent across the globe, specifically in the South Asian region where vulnerabilities to climate change among residents are high and climate change adaptation and mitigation awareness are extremely low. Pakistan's low adaptive capacity due to high poverty rate, limited financial resources and shortage of physical resources, and continual extreme climatic events including varying temperature, continual flooding, melting glaciers, saturation of lakes, earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, avalanches, droughts, scarcity of water, pest diseases, human healthcare issues, and seasonal and lifestyle changes have persistently threatened the ecosystem, biodiversity, human communities, animal habitations, forests, lands, and oceans with a potential to cause further damages in the future. The likely effect of climate change on common residents of Pakistan with comparison to the world and their per capita impact of climate change are terribly high with local animal species such as lions, vultures, dolphins, and tortoise facing extinction regardless of generating and contributing diminutively to global GHG emissions. The findings of the review suggested that GHG emissions cause climate change which has impacted agriculture livestock and forestry, weather trends and patterns, food water and energy security, and society of Pakistan. This review is a sectorial evaluation of climate change mitigation and adaption approaches in Pakistan in the aforementioned sectors and its economic costs which were identified to be between 7 to 14 billion USD per annum. The research suggested that governmental interference is essential for sustainable development of the country through strict accountability of resources and regulation implemented in the past for generating state-of-the-art climate policy.

Indexed as

Climate ChangeEnvironmental MonitoringAgricultureAnimalsEcosystemFloodsForestryForestsHumansLivestockPakistanAdaptationClimate changeGHG emissionsMitigationSectorial effects

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PMID31844992
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