Daily
and weekly reporting events of climate change and impacts on populations,
cultures, economies and politics at local, national, regional and international
scales suggest the need to construct databases that will be useful in future
scientific inquiry and global human/environmental policies. That need is
evident in constructing a geographic or locational knowledge base that examines
countries, regions and cities. This study constructs a database on the impacts
of climate change using Google Scholar entries for 200 countries and capital
cities. A series of maps reveal the vast unevenness in the database, especially
between Global North and Global South countries. The discussion explores these
sharp differences and suggests future research topics for much-needed global,
interdisciplinary and international research.
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