Civilisation vs climate

Civilisation vs climate | AGH SCIENCE meeting no. 27

What extreme weather phenomena intensify because of the global warming? What crops may be gone and which ones may take their place due to climate change? What engineering solutions should we implement to protect ourselves from the consequences of dangerous meteorological events?

How do we adapt to the effects of global warming?

Even if we manage to stop the increase of the average temperature at the level of below 1.5-2°C in relation to the preindustrial era, the humanity will not escape the existentially threatening consequences of the planet warming, e.g. heatwaves, droughts, torrential rains, fluctuations in agricultural production. We have asked the experts: Who is the most exposed to the impact of climate change? What engineering solutions should we implement to protect people from effects of extreme weather phenomena? Will the changing climate zones influence what we put on our plates?

Professor Anita Bokwa
Associate Professor at the Jagiellonian University. Geographer specialising in urban climatology, bioclimatology, historical climatology and geographical education. Author of over a hundred scientific and popular science works as well as application studies on the climate of Krakow. Vice-President of the Polish Geographical Society, juror of the Geography Olympiad, co-founder and chairwoman of the ESPERE Association, director of the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management at the Jagiellonian University.
 
Professor Marcin Rapacz
Doctor of agricultural and biological sciences, head of the Department of Physiology of Plant Breeding and Seed Production and chairman of the Agriculture and Horticulture Discipline Council at the University of Agriculture in Krakow. Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Plant Physiology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and member of the Scientific Council of the Plant Breeding and Acclimatization Institute. Member of the Committee of Agronomic Sciences and the Committee of Biotechnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Specialist in the adaptation of crop plants to changing environmental conditions.

Professor Tomasz Bergier
Associate Professor at AGH University. His scientific interests concern blue-green infrastructure and its application in water management, in particular in flood risk and rainwater management, adaptation and mitigation of climate change. Designer of hydrophyte treatment plants and other blue-green infrastructure solutions used for a wide range of utilities, including municipal sewage in areas of scattered development, rainwater, municipal landfills leachate. Expert and member of multiple organisations, such as: Council for Water and Sewage Management at the Mayor of Krakow, Water Management Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Ministerial “Environment and Adaptation to Climate Change” Team. Author of over 100 publications and expert opinions.