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Progressing the integration of climate change adaptation and disaster risk management in Vanuatu and beyond Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-22 Joshua Hallwright; John Handmer
The first framework to specifically integrate climate change adaption and disaster risk management was the Framework for Resilient Development in the Pacific. Despite the intense interest in integration and a very large literature on the topic, this Framework and its implementation has largely escaped the attention of commentators. This paper focuses on the experience of Vanuatu as a start in addressing
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Temperature-based fire frequency analysis using machine learning: A case of Changsha, China Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 Zhisheng Xu; Dingli Liu; Long Yan
Previous studies mainly focused on the influences of climate change on wildfires. However, other types of fires are also weather-related (especially temperature-related). The present study is aimed to analyze the influences of climate warming on fire risk. By data joining and processing, a dataset was born which includes 20,622 fire incidents and the related weather data from 2011 to 2017 in Changsha
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Changing climate risk in the UK: A multi-sectoral analysis using policy-relevant indicators Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 N.W. Arnell; A.L. Kay; A. Freeman; A.C. Rudd; J.A. Lowe
This paper presents a consistent series of policy-relevant indicators of changing climate hazards and resources for the UK, spanning the health, transport, energy, agriculture, flood and water sectors and based on UKCP18 climate projections. In the absence of explicit adaptation, risks will increase across the whole of the UK, but at different rates and from different starting values in different regions
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Modelling hydrological processes under climate change scenarios in the Jemma sub-basin of upper Blue Nile Basin, Ethiopia Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-09 Gebrekidan Worku; Ermias Teferi; Amare Bantider; Yihun T. Dile
This study examines the response of hydrological processes to different climate change scenarios in the Jemma sub-basin of the Blue Nile Basin. Future near-term (2021–2050) and long-term (2071–2100) climate scenarios were developed from six statistically bias corrected Regional Climate Models (RCMs) under two Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) scenarios: RCP4.5 and RCP8.5. The outputs of
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Can I move or can I stay? Applying a life course perspective on immobility when facing gradual environmental changes in Morocco Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Lore Van Praag
This study applies a life course perspective to immobility in the face of gradual environmental change in Morocco. Using 48 in-depth qualitative interviews in Tangier and Tinghir (Morocco), the study aims to understand how immobility is shaped and structured by the life course stages that people experience. This study enhances our understanding of immobility in gradually degrading environmental contexts
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Empirical evidence from Bangladesh of assessing climate hazard-related loss and damage and state of adaptive capacity to address them Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-08 Joy Bhowmik; Haseeb Md. Irfanullah; Samiya Ahmed Selim
Under changing climate, more frequent and severe extreme climate events have been causing both economic and non-economic losses and damages to local communities living in disaster-prone areas. Based on 14 focused group discussions, 20 in-depth interviews, and eight key informant interviews, this study sought to understand the losses and damages experienced by rural communities in three locations of
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Understanding the vulnerability, farming strategies and development pathways of smallholder farming systems in Telangana, India Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-16 Bhavana Rao Kuchimanchi; Annemarie van Paassen; Simon J. Oosting
Climate change projections for the 21st century indicate an increase in the already high number of food-insecure people in India. While considerable research on vulnerability to climate change exists, research about Indian smallholder farming systems as a whole, encompassing farming strategies and development pathways in this context, is limited. Hence, the current study examines the vulnerability
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No easy fixes: Government workers’ perception of policy (in)coherence in the implementation of the Post-2015 agenda in Mexico Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-02 Mar Moure; Simone Sandholz; Mia Wannewitz; Matthias Garschagen
The Paris Agreement, the Sustainable Development Goals, the Sendai Framework and the New Urban Agenda share a vision of global sustainable development, with several overlapping goals and targets. However, these agendas are often treated along sectoral boundaries leading to highly branched implementation. Underusing potential synergies is not only a burden for governments due to the costs of redundancies
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Poorly adapted but nothing to lose? A study on the flood risk – income relationship with a focus on low-income households Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Daniel Osberghaus
Flood risk may differ across income levels. In this paper, I employ unique survey data from more than 8000 households in Germany to derive an integrated flood risk indicator that accounts for local flood exposure, assets-at-risk, housing characteristics, and household coping behavior. The results suggest that low-income households, due to their smaller homes and less valuable assets, face lower monetary
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Vulnerability and adaptation to heat waves in preschools: Experiences, impacts and responses by unit heads, educators and parents Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-01 Anna Malmquist; Tora Lundgren; Mattias Hjerpe; Erik Glaas; Emily Turner; Sofie Storbjörk
With global warming, heat waves are becoming more frequent and intense, particularly in northern latitudes, where the pace of warming is faster. Due to its northern location, Swedish society has been built primarily to manage a cold climate, and is less prepared to manage heat, which the 2018 heat wave demonstrated. While young children are recognized as vulnerable to heat, and are reliant on preschool
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Global analysis of sea level rise risk to airports Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-31 Aaron N. Yesudian; Richard J. Dawson
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Scepticism and perceived self-efficacy influence fishers’ low risk perceptions of climate change Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2021-01-03 Katherine M. Maltby; Stephen D. Simpson; Rachel A. Turner
Climate change is impacting fisheries globally, posing both risks and opportunities to those dependent on marine resources. Understanding how fishers perceive climate change, and what factors shape these perceptions, can provide insights into behavioural intentions and support required for climate change focused strategies and management. This study interviewed demersal fishers from a south-west UK
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Distribution modelling and climate change risk assessment strategy for rare Himalayan Galliformes species using archetypal data abundant cohorts for adaptation planning Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Priyamvada Bagaria; Avantika Thapa; Lalit Kumar Sharma; Bheem Dutt Joshi; Hemant Singh; Chandra Maya Sharma; Joyashree Sarma; Mukesh Thakur; Kailash Chandra
In a macroecological approach, we have used the data abundant species or archetypal cohorts as proxies for the data deficient species, to model their distributions. Upon successful modelling, we assessed climate change impacts on their distribution in the Himalayan arc extending from the Indian borders in the west to the hills in Myanmar. Out of 34 Galliformes species occurring in the Himalayan arc
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Impacts and implications of climate change on wastewater systems: A New Zealand perspective Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 James Hughes; Katherine Cowper-Heays; Erica Olesson; Rob Bell; Adolf Stroombergen
Wastewater systems provide a critical service to society, and their vulnerability to the impacts of climate change. places the health and sanitation of many communities at risk. The impacts of climate change on wastewater systems are numerous and can lead to wide ranging implications over changing timescales. This paper considers the significance of the impacts and implications, how they will be distributed
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Risking the earth Part 1: Reassessing dangerous anthropogenic interference and climate risk in IPCC processes Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Adam Lucas
This two-part paper details the arguments and evidence that have been marshalled by both climate scientists and social scientists to critique the current procedures and methodologies deployed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to represent the risks of anthropogenic forcing and a continuation of business-as-usual
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Risking the earth Part 2: Power politics and structural reform of the IPCC and UNFCCC Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Adam Lucas
This two-part paper details the arguments and evidence that have been marshalled by both climate scientists and social scientists to critique the current procedures and methodologies deployed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to represent the risks of anthropogenic forcing and a continuation of business-as-usual
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Climate change impacts on peak river flows: Combining national-scale hydrological modelling and probabilistic projections Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 A.L. Kay; A.C. Rudd; M. Fry; G. Nash; S. Allen
Potential future increases in flooding due to climate change need to be taken into consideration when designing flood defences or planning new infrastructure or housing developments. Existing guidance on climate change allowances in Great Britain was based on research that developed a sensitivity-based approach to estimating the impacts of climate change on flood peaks, which was applied with catchment-based
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Weathering adaptation: Grid infrastructure planning in a changing climate Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-11-17 Anna M. Brockway; Laurel N. Dunn
Decisions related to electric power systems planning and operations rely on assumptions and insights informed by historic weather data and records of past performance. Evolving climate trends are, however, changing the energy use patterns and operating conditions of grid assets, thus altering the nature and severity of risks the system faces. Because grid assets remain in operation for decades, planning
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Projected changes to risk of wind-driven rain on buildings in Canada under +0.5 °C to +3.5 °C global warming above the recent period Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-12-03 Dae Il Jeong; Alex J. Cannon
Wind-driven rain (WDR) on building façades reduces hygrothermal performance and durability of wall assemblies. This paper evaluates projected changes to WDR exposure of building façades in Canada for future periods corresponding to specified levels (0.5 ~ 3.5 °C) of global warming above the 1986–2016 baseline. Projections are based on a large ensemble of Canadian Regional Climate Model (CanRCM4) simulations
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Climate variability and implications for keeping rivers cool in England Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 R.L. Wilby; M.F. Johnson
Water temperature (Tw) is a primary determinant of river ecosystem health and function that is strongly controlled by climate variability and change but mediated by catchment properties. We apply a nested analysis to: (1) evaluate how annual and seasonal mean Tw varied across England during the period 2000–2018; (2) assess the extent to which these regional-temporal dynamics correlate with the North
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Understanding the preferences of rural communities for adaptation to 21st-century sea-level rise: A case study from the Samoan islands Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Richard Nathan Crichton; Miguel Esteban; Motoharu Onuki
This paper explores the perceived adaptation preference of rural island communities in addressing future climate change risks, particularly those concerning sea-level rise. The research explores the role of culture and local politics, and differences among various age and gender groups within the community regarding preferred adaptation pathways for coping with the impacts of future sea-level rise
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Forecast probability, lead time and farmer decision-making in rice farming systems in Northern Ghana Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-11-25 Andy Bonaventure Nyamekye; Emmanuel Nyadzi; Art Dewulf; Saskia Werners; Erik Van Slobbe; Robbert G. Biesbroek; Catrien J.A.M. Termeer; Fulco Ludwig
Rice farmers in Northern Ghana are susceptible to climate variability and change with its effects in the form of drought, water scarcity, erratic rainfall and high temperatures. In response, farmers resort to weather and seasonal forecast to manage uncertainties in decision-making. However, there is limited empirical research on how forecast lead time and probabilities influence farmer decision-making
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The status of climate risk management in Austria. Assessing the governance landscape and proposing ways forward for comprehensively managing flood and drought risk Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-16 Markus Leitner; Philipp Babcicky; Thomas Schinko; Natalie Glas
Climate and weather-related damage have been increasing globally in recent decades. Due to climate change and socio-economic developments, a further increase in climate-related risks is expected. Numerous countries have a long and successful history in disaster risk management (DRM) to avoid, minimize and manage damage caused by extreme weather events. In addition, climate change adaptation (CCA) focuses
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Feedback modelling of the impacts of drought: A case study in coffee production systems in Viet Nam Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Yen Pham; Kathryn Reardon-Smith; Shahbaz Mushtaq; Ravinesh C. Deo
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Facing climate injustices: Community trust-building for climate services through arts and sciences narrative co-production Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Juan Baztan; Jean-Paul Vanderlinden; Lionel Jaffrès; Bethany Jorgensen; Zhiwei Zhu
The goal of this paper is to analyze how and with what results place-based climate service co-production may be enacted within a community for whom climate change is not a locally salient concern. Aiming to initiate a climate-centered dialogue, a hybrid team of scientists and artists collected local narratives within the Kerourien neighbourhood, in the city of Brest in Brittany, France. Kerourien is
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Climate changes and food policies: economic pathology Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Rasoul Afzali; Mosayeb GharehBeygi; Qiuomars Yazdanpanah Dero
The purpose of this study is to assess the implicit effects of climate change on the food industry by measuring post and pre-linkage with the agricultural sector and to further investigate the effects of alterations in food components (agriculture and livestock) in two regional, agro-ecological zones, namely the Caspian Sea and Central Iran, under two scenarios of climate change (optimistic and pessimistic)
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Rethinking planning hierarchy considering climate change as global catastrophe Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 Mattia Bertin; Francesco Musco; Lorenzo Fabian
This article proposes overcoming the distinction between the effects of climate change and the effects linked to classical disaster hazards by considering Climate Change as global catastrophe. The theoretical approach to combining the two models has until now greatly emphasized the need for further research, but with poor results. Starting from a new conception of climate change as a catastrophe in
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Enhancing public health preparedness, response, and recovery capabilities through the Florida Hurricane Response Hub Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Tara Rava Zolnikov; Kristin Palbicke Garces; Keren Bolter; Katelyn McGuigan; Roderick K. King
In 2017, climate-driven Atlantic hurricanes – Harvey, Irma, and Maria – produced harmful population health effects. Florida was one of the most significantly affected states. These hurricanes caused significant damage, but over time, lessons were revealed for opportunities to increase hurricane resilience. As a result, the Florida Hurricane Response Hub was established; this Hub was used as one of
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Public perception of climate change and disaster preparedness: Evidence from the Philippines Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-20 Vincenzo Bollettino; Tilly Alcayna-Stevens; Manasi Sharma; Philip Dy; Phuong Pham; Patrick Vinck
The Philippines is highly susceptible to both geophysical and climate-related disasters. This article explores Filipinos knowledge and perception of climate change and their association with what action Filipinos take to prepare for rapid onset natural hazards such as typhoons. Data for this study were collected from a nationally representative random survey of 5,184 adults conducted between March
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Good data are not enough: Understanding limited information use for climate risk and food security management in Guatemala Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Anna Müller; Claudia Bouroncle; Ada Gaytán; Estuardo Girón; Andrea Granados; Vesalio Mora; Fernando Portillo; Jacob van Etten
Climate extremes are one of the main drivers of acute food insecurity. In Guatemala, acute food insecurity reaches alarming levels when the usual dry period during the bimodal rainy seasons is extended or starts earlier than expected. Drought has a slow-onset which theoretically leaves sufficient lead-time for addressing impacts on food security. In practice, emergency response to drought is often
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Farmer forecasts: Impacts of seasonal rainfall expectations on agricultural decision-making in Sub-Saharan Africa Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Zack Guido; Andrew Zimmer; Sara Lopus; Corrie Hannah; Drew Gower; Kurt Waldman; Natasha Krell; Justin Sheffield; Kelly Caylor; Tom Evans
Seasonal climate variability frequently undermines farm yields, reduces food availability, and lowers income. This is particularly evident among small-scale agricultural producers in both irrigated and non-irrigated agroecosystems in the Global South where maize cultivars constitute a critical component of food production. In these systems, farmers make climate-sensitive decisions that include the
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How parks provide thermal comfort perception in the metropolitan cores; a case study in Madrid Mediterranean climatic zone Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Farshid Aram; Ebrahim Solgi; Sepideh Baghaee; Ester Higueras García; Amir Mosavi; Shahab S. Band
The combined effects of global warming and increasing urban heat islands (UHIs) on air temperature and heat stress in cities are notable physical and mental health implications for citizens. With research having shown the effective role of urban green spaces in decreasing urban heat, this study investigated the cooling effect of a large urban park on thermal comfort outside the park area, from psychological
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A rising tide of adaptation action: Comparing two coastal regions of Aotearoa-New Zealand Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-09-15 Paul Schneider; Judy Lawrence; Bruce Glavovic; Emma Ryan; Paula Blackett
Diverse and contested local interests and the complexity of climate change make adaptation to climate change risks at the coast challenging. Even in similar settings, adaptation experiences and prospects can differ markedly. Why? This paper provides empirical evidence of comparative adaptation experiences in two regions of Aotearoa-New Zealand - the Coromandel Peninsula and the Hawke’s Bay coast. We
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Adaptation planning in France: Inputs from narratives of change in support of a community-led foresight process Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Charlotte da Cunha; Ana Paula Farias Rocha; Marianne Cardon; Florentin Breton; Laurent Labeyrie; Jean-Paul Vanderlinden
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Re-balancing climate services to inform climate-resilient planning – A conceptual framework and illustrations from sub-Saharan Africa Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-07-10 Katharine Vincent, Declan Conway, Andrew J. Dougill, Joanna Pardoe, Emma Archer, Ajay Gajanan Bhave, Rebecka Henriksson, Neha Mittal, David Mkwambisi, Estelle Rouhaud, Dorothy Tembo-Nhlema
Making climate-resilient planning and adaptation decisions is, in part, contingent on the use of climate information. Growing attention has been paid to the “usability gap” and the need to make information both useful and useable to decision-makers. Less attention has, however, been paid to the factors that determine whether, once created, useful and useable information is then actually used. In this
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Modelling habitat suitability of western tragopan (Tragopan melanocephalus) a range-restricted vulnerable bird species of the Himalayan region, in response to climate change Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-07-01 Hukum Singh, Narendra Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Ranjeet Singh
Climate change is expected to alter the structure and functions of an ecosystem including species composition and its geographical distribution. There is limited understanding on how the habitat of the Himalayan range-restricted species would be affected under the influence of climate change. In the present study, we model the climate change impacts on habitat suitability of western tragopan (Tragopan
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Climate risk assessment and cascading impacts: Risks and opportunities for an electrical utility in the U.S. Southwest Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-06-18 Ben McMahan, Andrea K. Gerlak
Climate risks pose a particular set of challenges to electrical utilities, who must manage the direct impacts of climate and weather, as well as how related effects might propagate through networks of interconnected social and environmental risks. In this paper, we present a case study example of climate services development, co-produced between a regional electrical utility and researchers at the
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Climate risk narratives: An iterative reflective process for co-producing and integrating climate knowledge Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-06-10 Christopher David Jack, Richard Jones, Laura Burgin, Joseph Daron
We introduce the concept of Climate Risk Narratives (CRNs), their origin, and their evolution through a trans-disciplinary engaged research activity around urban climate resilience. While the use of narratives as a communication and engagement device is well established and similar concepts such as scenarios and storylines exist, we describe the learning and value that this specific formulation of
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Developing a hybrid drought index: Precipitation Evapotranspiration Difference Condition Index Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-06-05 Liyan Tian, Zachary T. Leasor, Steven M. Quiring
Drought indices are widely used for drought quantification. The objective of this study is to introduce a hybrid drought index, the Precipitation Evapotranspiration Difference Condition Index (PEDCI), and to compare its performance in Oklahoma to existing drought indices. The PEDCI is based on a simple water balance model, which accounts for the difference between water supply (precipitation) and water
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When the disaster strikes: Gendered (im)mobility in Bangladesh Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-06-02 Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson
Gender influences people’s behaviour in various ways. This study investigates gendered (im)mobility during cyclone strikes in Bangladesh. During such strikes people have described being unable to move away from environmentally high-risk locations and situations. The Q-based Discourse Analysis used by this study shows how and why gender-roles (im)mobilised people in three coastal locations during the
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Portrait of a climate city: How climate change is emerging as a risk in Bergen, Norway Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-05-15 Scott Bremer, Eleanor Johnson, Kjersti Fløttum, Kyrre Kverndokk, Arjan Wardekker, Werner Krauß
Climate change is dramatically shifting the way cities interpret and live with their local climate. This paper analyses how climate change is emerging as a matter of concern in the public spheres of Bergen, and interprets how this concern is affecting Bergen’s identity, with implications for the city’s climate risk governance. Historically, Bergen has a strong identity as Europe’s rainiest city, manifested
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A GIS-based framework for high-level climate change risk assessment of critical infrastructure Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-05-07 Lara Hawchar, Owen Naughton, Paul Nolan, Mark G. Stewart, Paraic C. Ryan
The IPCC states that climate change unequivocally impacts on various aspects of the natural and built environment, including our vital critical infrastructure systems (transport, energy, water/wastewater and communications). It is thus essential for countries to gain an understanding of critical infrastructure vulnerability to current and future climate-related threats, in order to develop effective
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Cascading climate change impacts and implications Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Judy Lawrence, Paula Blackett, Nicholas A. Cradock-Henry
Climate change is expected to have adverse impacts and implications for a range of human-environment systems. However, our understanding of the extent to which these impacts may propagate as cascades, compounding to form multiple impacts across sectors, is limited. Cascades result from interdependencies between systems and sub-systems of coupled natural and socio-economic systems in response to changes
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Modeling Coastal Flood Risk and Adaptation Response under Future Climate Conditions. Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-04-30 Mark Lorie,James E Neumann,Marcus C Sarofim,Russell Jones,Radley M Horton,Robert E Kopp,Charles Fant,Cameron Wobus,Jeremy Martinich,Megan O'Grady,Lauren Gentile
The National Coastal Property Model (NCPM) simulates flood damages resulting from sea level rise and storm surge along the contiguous U.S. coastline. The model also projects local-level investments in a set of adaptation measures under the assumption that these measures will be adopted when benefits exceed the costs over a 30-year period. However, it has been observed that individuals and communities
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Meaning in the face of changing climate risks: Connecting agency, sensemaking and narratives of change through transdisciplinary research Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-03-31 Jean-Paul Vanderlinden, Juan Baztan, Omer Chouinard, Mateo Cordier, Charlotte Da Cunha, Jean-Michel Huctin, Alioune Kane, Gregory Kennedy, Inga Nikulkina, Vyacheslav Shadrin, Céline Surette, Diatou Thiaw, Kaleekal T. Thomson
This paper contributes to the body of knowledge associated with the analysis of transdisciplinary research. We use a narrative centered approach, focusing on hybridity, sensemaking and the potential for transdisciplinary research to foster agency. When confronted with changes, people – as individuals – and local communities – as groups – make sense of them in the light of their own knowledge, beliefs
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The discoveries of citizens running around Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-03-29 Diana Wildschut, Harmen Zijp
Three years ago, the autonomous citizen science project Meet je Stad (Measure your City) formed a community in Amersfoort that developed its own instruments to measure climatic change locally. Like many citizen science projects, this initiative faces challenges to being considered a legitimate and credible way of extending climate research, or as a source of robust information for local climate risk
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Local narratives of change as an entry point for building urban climate resilience Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-03-24 Benedikt Marschütz, Scott Bremer, Hens Runhaar, Dries Hegger, Heleen Mees, Joost Vervoort, Arjan Wardekker
Cities face increasing risks due to climate change, and many cities are actively working towards increasing their climate resilience. Climate change-induced risks and interventions to reduce these risks do not only impact urban risk management systems and infrastructures, but also people’s daily lives. In order to build public support for climate adaptation and resilience-building and stimulate collaboration
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A stress test for climate change impacts on water security: A CRIDA case study Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-03-23 K.M.J. Verbist, H. Maureira-Cortés, P. Rojas, S. Vicuña
Since the impacts of climate change will be felt most directly through changes in water availability and water security, adequate tools are required to support water resources management decisions for the medium and long term. The Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA) provides a pathway for more localized vulnerability assessments of water resources under climate change, while encompassing
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The role of place-based narratives of change in climate risk governance Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-03-03 Werner Krauß, Scott Bremer
In this introduction, we situate the topic of this Special Issue on ‘narratives of change’ in the scholarly literature about how we inform climate risk governance, including through climate services. We argue that many places experience a persistent mismatch between predominantly science-based and technical framings of climatic risk on the one hand, and the place-based understandings of climate extremes
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Narratives of change and the co-development of climate services for action Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-02-26 Werner Krauß
After the Paris Agreement, the transition towards a carbon free society necessitates new forms of collaboration between climate science and society. In my article, I argue that the increasing participation of disciplines from the humanities represent a cultural turn in climate risk governance. At the example of my anthropological case study at the Northern German coastline, I show that the co-development
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‘Partial functional redundancy’: An expression of household level resilience in response to climate risk Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-02-22 Nicholas Philip Simpson, Clifford D. Shearing, Benoit Dupont
This article extends ecological framings of resilience into socio-ecological and governance domains for urban infrastructure managers concerned with climate risk. Under moments of disruption, reliable and equitable access to adequate provision of public goods is anticipated to be increasingly challenging in cities across the world due to observed and anticipated disruptions of climate change and variability
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Vulnerability assessment of households to flash floods and landslides in the poor upland regions of Vietnam Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-02-13 Nga Thanh Thi Pham, Duy Nong, Archana Raghavan Sathyan, Matthias Garschagen
Increased frequency and intensity of flash floods and landslides in the Northern Mountainous Regions of Vietnam represent the most damaging hazards to the production activities and livelihoods of rural households, which are heavily reliant on agriculture. Assessing households’ vulnerability therefore becomes critical and urgent to help policy-makers in Vietnam in facilitating the implementation of
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Targeted model evaluations for climate services: A case study on heat waves in Bangladesh Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-02-08 Hannah Nissan, Ángel G. Muñoz, Simon J. Mason
Though not a sufficient condition, the ability to reproduce key elements of climate variability over the historical record should be a minimum requirement for placing any confidence in a model’s climate forecasts or projections of climate change. When projections are used to guide practical adaptation, model evaluations should focus on the weather and climate events of interest to decision-makers,
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21st Century flood risk projections at select sites for the U.S. National Park Service Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-02-04 Peter Van Dusen, Balaji Rajagopalan, David J. Lawrence, Laura E. Condon, Gary Smillie, Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, Tom Pruitt
Assessing flood risk using stationary flood frequency analysis techniques is commonplace. However, it is increasingly evident that the stationarity assumption of these analyses does not hold as anthropogenic climate change could shift a site’s hydroclimate beyond the range of historical behaviors. We employ nonstationary flood frequency models using the generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution
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From risk calculations to narratives of danger Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2020-01-25 Silvio Funtowicz
The purpose of this perspective article is to provide a broader viewpoint on the contents of this special issue on ‘narratives of change’ and the role of narratives not only for climate risk governance, but also for the science-society nexus at the global and local scales. Narratives of change are ambiguous; they can be narratives of risk (the technoscientific version of danger) or they can be narratives
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The state of local adaptive capacity to climate change in drought-prone districts of rural Sidama, southern Ethiopia Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2019-12-27 Tafesse Matewos
The paper assesses local adaptive capacity of rural households in three drought-prone districts of rural Sidama using Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance’s (ACCRA) Local Adaptive Capacity Framework (LACF). Randomly selected401 households were approached to collect relevant data on the state of local adaptive capacity. Additional qualitative data were gathered from key informant interviews and
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Inundation modelling for Bangladeshi coasts using downscaled and bias-corrected temperature Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2019-12-24 Md Kamrul Hasan, Lalit Kumar, Tharani Gopalakrishnan
Coastal areas in Bangladesh are at severe risk of inundation by sea-level rise (SLR). Effective adaptation plan requires information about extent and level of projected inundation, which is yet to be localized for Bangladeshi coasts. We used downscaled and bias-corrected temperatures from 28 global climate models to predict SLR around Bangladesh. Based on the extended semi-empirical approach to SLR
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A change-point analysis of food price shocks Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2019-12-24 Chrisovaladis Malesios, Nikoleta Jones, Aled Jones
As the impact of climate change increases it is more likely that we will see an increase of extreme weather events leading to significant food production losses. Therefore, understanding the complexities of how production losses impact on policy (through export or import restrictions) and prices (through markets) is important for the governance of the global food system in the future. In this paper
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Understanding adaptive capacity of smallholder African indigenous vegetable farmers to climate change in Kenya Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2019-12-24 Winifred Chepkoech, Nancy W. Mungai, Silke Stöber, Hermann Lotze-Campen
Understanding the adaptive capacity (AC) of farmers is crucial to planning effective adaptation. Action to promote farmers’ AC is required because climate change (CC) is resulting in unpredictable alterations in weather patterns. Based on the sustainable livelihoods framework (SLF), this study explored how access to natural, physical, financial, social and human capitals enhances the AC. Quantitative
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The climate change double whammy: Flood damage and the determinants of flood insurance coverage, the case of post-Katrina New Orleans Clim. Risk Manag. (IF 4.904) Pub Date : 2019-12-23 Clare Cannon, Kevin Fox Gotham, Katie Lauve-Moon, Bradford Powers
This paper advances scholarly debate on the contradictions of environmental risk management measures by analyzing the determinants of flood insurance coverage among a sample of 403 residents in New Orleans, a city undergoing rapid transformation due to post-Katrina rebuilding efforts and anthropogenic modifications of climate, hydrology, and ecology. The paper focuses on several predictors including
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