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The paper deals with major trends of landscape dynamics in the northern part of the Tigireksky Reserve. The global warming impact on the study area is confirmed by the ERA5, NCEP-NCAR and CRU TS reanalyses data for 1979-2018. It manifests in decreased atmospheric humidification during the growing season and worsening conditions for forest recovery. We discuss the possibilities of identifying geosystems-indicators for monitoring of climate change and cultural landscape recovery based on the analysis of the author's large-scale landscape map. | Zolotov, D; Chernykh, D; Malygina, N; Biryukov, R; Pershin, D | Geosystems-indicators of climate change and cultural landscape recovery in Tigireksky Reserve and its protective zone (Altai Krai, Russia) | International Journal Of Global Warming | https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGW.2022.120065 |
We present an interdisciplinary effort in the field of global environmental change, related to the understanding of the concept of 'vulnerability'. We have used functional programming to capture the generic aspects of the myriad of definitions of vulnerability, and have used the resulting formalization to learn something new about vulnerability and to write some better software for vulnerability assessment. In the process, we have also found out something about formalization in general, about the advantages and disadvantages of dependent types, and about the role of computing science in the larger intellectual landscape. | Ionescu, C | Vulnerability modelling with functional programming and dependent types | Mathematical Structures In Computer Science | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960129514000139 |
Planned adaptation to climate change denotes actions undertaken to reduce the risks and capitalize on the opportunities associated with global climate change. This paper summarizes current thinking about planned adaptation. It starts with an explanation of key adaptation concepts, a description of the diversity of adaptation contexts, and a discussion of key prerequisites for effective adaptation. On the basis of this introduction, major approaches to climate impact and adaptation assessment and their evolution are reviewed. Finally, principles for adaptation assessment are derived from decision-analytical considerations and from the experience with past adaptation assessments. | Füssel, HM | Adaptation planning for climate change: concepts, assessment approaches, and key lessons | Sustainability Science | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-007-0032-y |
The 2014 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms the rise of the notion of adaptation by devoting a prominent place. Among the dozen of new definitions, the transformational adaptation appears to be the most innovative. Indeed, the need for a transformation of the workings of the socio-economic system at territorial scale is now inevitable rather than just some adjustments. The article questions this new definition by showing the contribution of social and human sciences and the opportunities offered in terms of planning, interdisciplinary research and conceptualization. | Simonet, G | From adjustment to transformation: the rise of adaptation to climate change? | Developpement Durable & Territoires | https://doi.org/10.4000/developpementdurable.17511 |
The saltwater people of Solomon Islands are often portrayed to be at the frontline of climate change. In media, policy, and development discourses, the erosion and abandonment of the small, man-made islands along the coast of Malaita is attributed to climate change induced sea-level rise. This paper investigates this sinking islands narrative, and argues that a narrow focus on the projected impacts of climate change distracts attention and resources from more pressing environmental and development problems that are threatening rural livelihoods. | van der Ploeg, J; Sukulu, M; Govan, H; Minter, T; Eriksson, H | Sinking Islands, Drowned Logic; Climate Change and Community-Based Adaptation Discourses in Solomon Islands | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su12177225 |
The frequency and severity of extreme weather events, such as floods, storm surges, droughts, bushfires and cyclones, are forcing public organizations to look at their strategies for safeguarding their infrastructure assets. The organizational challenges facing local councils worldwide in the context of climate change have not been adequately developed or understood. This article addresses this gap in knowledge with a model that identifies the organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure to climate change. Managers can use the model to also assess the vulnerability of their infrastructure to climate change. | Sciulli, N | Organizational barriers to adapting infrastructure assets to climate change: evidence from coastal councils in Australia | Public Money & Management | https://doi.org/10.1080/09540962.2013.763436 |
This paper outlines the technical and anecdotal findings of a horizon scanning exercise into the ability of civil engineers to deliver impactful climate action. Examples of interaction between extreme weather and built environment assets are broken down via systems thinking. The concept of unconscious bias is addressed in how infrastructure climate risk is diagnosed; beyond the effects of flooding, drought, and heatwaves. Differentiations between climate mitigation, resilience and adaptation are made. Opportunities to address each throughout the infrastructure lifecycle are discussed, including how to balance conflicts of interest between them. | Cammock, R | Opportunities for a civil engineering climate action strategy | Proceedings Of The Institution Of Civil Engineers-Civil Engineering | https://doi.org/10.1680/jcien.20.00043 |
This case study of a post-Katrina community-based action research project conducted in partnership with an international non-governmental organization (INGO) sought to understand the extent to which practices facilitated sustainable recovery from disaster. Findings include three major problem areas: (i) participation; (ii) capacity building and (iii) race/racism. The author posits that the neoliberal climate in which INGOs operate enables practices that perpetuate injustice and argues for different directions for sustainable disaster recovery and social justice. | Pyles, L | Neoliberalism, INGO practices and sustainable disaster recovery: a post-Katrina case study | Community Development Journal | https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsp058 |
Using a new data set on annual deaths from disasters in 73 nations from 1980 to 2002, this paper tests several hypotheses concerning natural-disaster mitigation. Though richer nations do not experience fewer natural disasters than poorer nations, richer nations do suffer less death from disaster. Economic development provides implicit insurance against nature's shocks. Democracies and nations with higher-quality institutions suffer less death from natural disaster. Because climate change is expected to increase the frequency of natural disasters such as floods, these results have implications for the incidence of global warming. | Kahn, ME | The death toll from natural disasters: The role of income, geography, and institutions | Review Of Economics And Statistics | https://doi.org/10.1162/0034653053970339 |
Despite growing interest in China's response to climate change, few studies address what is happening at the sub-national level. Hong Kong has implemented several mitigation and adaptation climate-related initiatives. An analytical framework combining multi-level governance with the concepts of institutionalisation and legitimisation is applied to Hong Kong's climate initiatives. Hong Kong's ability to devise a climate change strategy that is institutionalised and legitimated is found to be constrained by a range of climate policy-specific and broader socio-economic and political factors. | Francesch-Huidobro, M | Institutional deficit and lack of legitimacy: the challenges of climate change governance in Hong Kong | Environmental Politics | https://doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2012.686221 |
Innovative research on decision making under 'deep uncertainty' is underway in applied fields such as engineering and operational research, largely outside the view of normative theorists grounded in decision theory. Applied methods and tools for decision support under deep uncertainty go beyond standard decision theory in the attention that they give to the structuring (also called framing) of decisions. Decision structuring is an important part of a broader philosophy of managing uncertainty in decision making, and normative decision theorists can both learn from, and contribute to, the growing deep uncertainty decision support literature. | Helgeson, C | Structuring Decisions Under Deep Uncertainty | Topoi-An International Review Of Philosophy | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-018-9584-y |
Climate change and the adaptation to its negative impact not only rank high on the political agenda, they also open up a field for social research where anthropologists and social geographers can add valuable contributions. The paper outlines conceptually the challenges in conducting research on the adaptation to climate change by presenting the uncertainties with regard to climate modeling in the Ethiopian Highlands. The authors ask whether it is possible to empirically investigate the direct dependency between climate change and local adaptation strategies by referring to their own and other research projects in the study region. | Eguavoen, I; zur Heide, F | Climate change and adaptation research in Ethiopia | Zeitschrift Fur Ethnologie | null |
During the last twenty years, more than forty-five publications have sought to measure and evaluate the quality of plans using content analysis methods. We examine reasons for this growth in the literature and its contributions and limitations. We also examine whether the research methods described in these publications conform to recommended practices in the methodological literature on content analysis to determine whether plan quality researchers are likely to be generating reliable and reproducible plan quality data. We provide seven recommendations plan quality researchers can follow to address these weaknesses and improve the reliability and reproducibility of their data. | Lyles, W; Stevens, M | Plan Quality Evaluation 1994-2012: Growth and Contributions, Limitations, and New Directions | Journal Of Planning Education And Research | https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X14549752 |
The paper investigates the fiscal impact of natural disasters in the U.S. states. The focus is on state spending, state revenues, and federal transfers for the period from 1970 to 2015. Results show that a broad definition based on dollar damages from all emergency events and major disasters has a small effect on state-level fiscal conditions, which stands in contrast to prior studies. On the other hand, a narrower definition based on the occurrence of major disasters is associated with increased spending and transfers alongside spending effects that grow with disaster severity. | Bayar, O; Yarbrough, TR | The Fiscal Consequences of Natural Disasters: Evidence from the US States | Public Finance Review | https://doi.org/10.1177/10911421231179535 |
Agricultural production is heavily dependent on weather outcomes, and hence climate change has the potential to significantly alter the sector's productivity. Both reduced form studies as well as integrated assessment models have found that the agricultural sector might experience significant impacts. We discuss the advantages of empirical reduced-form studies and their link and potential usefulness to integrated assessment models. We further discuss challenges facing empirical studies and recent research that looks at the longer term changes in climate and attempts to measure adaptation. (c) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | Auffhammer, M; Schlenker, W | Empirical studies on agricultural impacts and adaptation | Energy Economics | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2014.09.010 |
This paper develops a participatory methodology to integrate fanner's vision in the design of an adaptation strategy to global change in the Jucar River basin. It aims at answering three questions: How farmers perceive climate change impacts; which adaptation measures they consider, and how they assess these measures. Participatory workshops with different actors were held in two areas (La Ribera and La Mancha Oriental). This methodology has allowed identifying the local impacts and consequences of global change, and the difficulties of the adaptation processes to climate change scenarios. | Ortega-Reig, M; García-Mollá, M; Sanchis-Ibor, C; Pulido-Velázquez, M; Girard, C; Marcos, P; Ruiz-Rodríguez, M; García-Prats, A | Adaptation of agriculture to global change scenarios. Application of participatory methods in the Jucar River basin (Spain) | Economia Agraria Y Recursos Naturales | https://doi.org/10.7201/earn.2018.02.02.02 |
Adaptation will play a key role in determining the economic and social costs of climate change. One important measure of adaptation is reductions in deaths caused by climate events. This paper uses two new data sets to test the hypothesis that, in recent years, climate events cause less deaths than in the past. Using data on deaths caused by natural disasters and data on skin cancer death rates in warmer and cooler US states, this paper reports evidence in favor of the adaptation progress hypothesis. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Kahn, ME | Two measures of progress in adapting to climate change | Global Environmental Change-Human And Policy Dimensions | https://doi.org/10.1016/S0959-3780(03)00052-9 |
This progress report discusses the role that human geography can potentially play in a paradigm shift in global environmental change research. As the global discourse shifts from understanding and explaining environmental problems to addressing them quickly and effectively, there is a need to integrate insights from the social sciences and humanities into a new science of global change - a science that recognizes subjectivity and emphasizes the notion of change, including transformational social change. Four themes are presented as examples of why and how human geographers might lead in the development of this new science. | O'Brien, K | Responding to environmental change: A new age for human geography? | Progress In Human Geography | https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132510377573 |
Vuln-Indices Java-based software was developed on concepts of vulnerability to climate change of agro-ecological systems. It implements the calculation of vulnerability indices on series of state variables for assessments at both site and region levels. The tool is useful because synthetic indices help capturing complex processes and prove effective to identify the factors responsible for vulnerability and their relative importance. It is suggested that the tool may be plausible for use with stakeholders to disseminate information of climate change impacts. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | Lardy, R; Bellocchi, G; Martin, R | Vuln-Indices: Software to assess vulnerability to climate change | Computers And Electronics In Agriculture | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2015.03.016 |
Society's response to every dimension of global climate change is mediated by culture. We analyse new research across the social sciences to show that climate change threatens cultural dimensions of lives and livelihoods that include the material and lived aspects of culture, identity, community cohesion and sense of place. We find, furthermore, that there are important cultural dimensions to how societies respond and adapt to climate-related risks. We demonstrate how culture mediates changes in the environment and changes in societies, and we elucidate shortcomings in contemporary adaptation policy. | Adger, WN; Barnett, J; Brown, K; Marshall, N; O'Brien, K | Cultural dimensions of climate change impacts and adaptation | Nature Climate Change | https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE1666 |
This research focused on the Mexico City Climate Change Action Program 2014-2020 case study, examines how resilience has been embedded into planning instru-ments. Part 1 introduces prominent themes and concepts related to the incorporation of resilience in planning practice. Part 2 analyses concepts, methodologies, and strategies for building resilience in this program. Part 3 presents a critical assessment of the framework adopted. By doing so, it aims to highlight the challenges and opportunities embedding resilience offers to building a comprehensive urban resilience strategy within a planning for sustainability framework. | Pérez, NR | Analysis of the extend to which resilience has been embedded into Mexico City planning | Economia Sociedad Y Territorio | https://doi.org/10.22136/est2023202171 |
This article employs a place-based resilience approach to support a procedural shift from a focus on specific, tangible outcomes towards a focus on processes that support wellbeing. We draw upon resident experiences of a bushfire event and a security event, later termed a terror event, and use a place-aware analysis to identify intangible yet significant patterns of disruption. A reoriented resilience approach requires innovative community initiatives that foster place-based wellbeing, which may compliment existing emergency response approaches without necessarily fitting within the traditional resilience policy purview. | Della Bosca, H; Schlosberg, D; Craven, L | Shock and place: reorienting resilience thinking | Local Environment | https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1723510 |
The 2015 Paris agreement has made adaptation to climate change a global goal and increased the polycentricity of the governance landscape. This study uses insights from polycentric governance theory to analyze the emergence of adaptation governance (AG) in Brazil and its implications for the state of Acre, situated in the Amazon region. By using a qualitative data analysis, including subnational climate policies and semi-structured interviews, we aim to analyze the advantages and challenges of polycentric AG in Acre and provide recommendations for improved AG in the region. | de Wit, FCA; de Freitas, PM | Global climate adaptation governance in the Amazon through a polycentricity lens | Revista Brasileira De Politica Internacional | https://doi.org/10.1590/0034-7329201900207 |
This paper begins by reviewing the structure and evolution of polar bear (Ursus maritimus) management in Canada and in the Territory of Nunavut since the inception of the Agreement on the Conservation of Polar Bears in the 1970s. This is followed by the paper's main focus, the examination of the socioeconomic and cultural importance of polar bears for Inuit and the success of the Agreement in supporting contemporary Inuit subsistence relations in Nunavut. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | Wenzel, GW | Polar bear management, sport hunting and Inuit subsistence at Clyde River, Nunavut | Marine Policy | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2010.10.020 |
This study of the nature and extent of livelihood vulnerability of farm households in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, involved the computation of livelihood vulnerability indices and indices of exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity for different social communities. The empirical findings reveal that farmers belonging to Scheduled Tribes (ST) communities were relatively highly exposed and sensitive to climate change and least able to adapt. In this light, several policy recommendations are proposed to improve the livelihood security of vulnerable groups. | Singh, S | Bridging the gap between biophysical and social vulnerability in rural India: a community livelihood vulnerability approach | Area Development And Policy | https://doi.org/10.1080/23792949.2020.1734473 |
Climate change will alter water availability. The way to adapt can be examined in the light of current situations where water scarcity already exists. This is the case of Tille's watershed in which a planification of withdrawable volumes has been engaged, to avoid drought's water restrictions. We show that instruments dedicated to quantitative management improve knowledge on resource, but don't trigger changes in water uses. The technical expertise and the handling of the issue in a deliberation manner do not open enough discussion to address possible futures. | Vergote, MH; Petit, S | From future to nowadays, water management under strain | Developpement Durable & Territoires | https://doi.org/10.4000/developpementdurable.17516 |
This paper develops climate-response functions for sensitive market sectors in the United States' economy using two empirical methods. The experimental approach constructs a process-based impact model from the results of controlled experiments. Reduced-form equations can be estimated from the model responses to multiple climate scenarios. The cross-sectional approach estimates response functions directly from empirical evidence in the field. Both methods indicate that agriculture, forestry, and energy have a hill-shaped relationship to temperature. Precipitation, sea-level rise, and carbon dioxide are also important. | Mendelsohn, R; Schlesinger, ME | Climate-response functions | Ambio | null |
Based on research in rural villages of north-central Vietnam, this article examines the value of local and indigenous knowledge in adaptation to weather and climate-induced disasters. Diverse forms of knowledge were found to thrive and interact with the modern knowledge complex. The article argues that local knowledge has the potential to enhance human capital and contribute to local participation and mobilization around disaster risk reduction and sustainable rural development, but political adjustments must provide new avenues for rural participation beyond conventional state institutions as well as a greater space for civil society development. | Bruun, O; Ngoc, LB | Local and Indigenous Knowledge for Disaster Prevention and Livelihood Protection in Rural North Central Vietnam | Journal Of Vietnamese Studies | https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2018.13.2.74 |
Indigenous community members along the Slave River in Canada have voiced their concerns for the health of ecosystems under pressure from resource extraction, hydroelectric development and global climate change. We present a test case of traditional knowledge and scientific results about the spawning and migration patterns of fish in the Slave River and Delta. This dual knowledge system approach elucidates the broader connectivity of local study regions and can improve monitoring programmes by extending beyond the usual context/confines of the present or recent past, increasing the spatial and temporal range of system information. | Baldwin, C; Bradford, L; Carr, MK; Doig, LE; Jardine, TD; Jones, PD; Bharadwaj, L; Lindenschmidt, KE | Ecological patterns of fish distribution in the Slave River Delta region, Northwest Territories, Canada, as relayed by traditional knowledge and Western science | International Journal Of Water Resources Development | https://doi.org/10.1080/07900627.2017.1298516 |
This study examines perception of households to climate change and factors that influence the selection of adaptation measures. Using survey data, the results suggest that households are knowledgeable and concerned about climate change but lack knowledge about the measures needed to adapt. The results also suggest that the risk and importance placed on climate change, vulnerability experienced with household flooding, drainage and expected threat of future sea level are the main factors that influence the adaptation decision. The results obtained in this study are beneficial to all as adaptation requires a collective effort by stakeholders. | Ganase, SAS; Sookram, S | Climate change knowledge at the grass roots: the case of Bequia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines | Environment Development And Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-00620-5 |
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam each conducted a Ricardian analysis of crop net revenue (NR) in their country. The countries defined seasons slightly differently depending on their monsoon and dry periods. They also sometimes included slightly different variables in their regressions. The countries are small so that the climate results are often insignificant. However, the Ricardian model does predict near term damage in Bangladesh in the CanESM climate scenario and near and far term damage in Thailand in the CMCC climate scenario. | Abidoye, BO; Mendelsohn, R; Ahmed, S; Amanullah, S; Chasidpon, C; Baker, L; Dobias, R; Ghosh, B; Gunaratne, LHP; Hedeyetullah, MM; Mungatana, E; Ortiz, C; Simoes, M; Kurukulasuriya, P; Perera, C; Sooriyaarachchi, A; Supnithadnaporn, A; Truong, T | SOUTH-EAST ASIAN RICARDIAN STUDIES: BANGLADESH, SRI LANKA, THAILAND, AND VIETNAM | Climate Change Economics | https://doi.org/10.1142/S2010007817400048 |
We analyze the impact of different adaptation strategies on crop net revenues in the Nile Basin of Ethiopia. We estimate a multinomial endogenous switching regression model of climate change adaptation and crop net revenues and implement a counterfactual analysis. Households data are combined with spatial climate data. We find that adaptation to climate change based upon a portfolio of strategies significantly increases farm net revenues. Changing crop varieties has a positive and significant impact on net revenues when coupled with water conservation strategies or soil conservation strategies, but not when implemented in isolation. | Di Falco, S; Veronesi, M | How Can African Agriculture Adapt to Climate Change? A Counterfactual Analysis from Ethiopia | Land Economics | https://doi.org/10.3368/le.89.4.743 |
U.S. water systems need to consider actions to mitigate risks and enhance resilience in the face of natural hazards to comply with America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018. This study describes federal policies, programs, and financial resources that support the water sector in implementing mitigation and resilience strategies, and includes a detailed review of water sector participation in Hazard Mitigation Assistance (HMA) programs. An opportunity exists to use the AWIA assessments to justify investment under various funding and financing programs to achieve policy goals. | Brodmerkel, A; Carpenter, AT; Morley, KM | Federal financial resources for disaster mitigation and resilience in the US water sector | Utilities Policy | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2020.101015 |
The study of sustainability challenges requires the consideration of multiple coupled systems that are often complex and deeply uncertain. As a result, traditional analytical methods offer limited insights with respect to how to best address such challenges. By analyzing the case of global climate change mitigation, this paper shows that the combination of high-performance computing, mathematical modeling, and computational intelligence tools, such as optimization and clustering algorithms, leads to richer analytical insights. The paper concludes by proposing an analytical hierarchy of computational tools that can be applied to other sustainability challenges. | Molina-Perez, E; Esquivel-Flores, OA; Zamora-Maldonado, H | Computational Intelligence for Studying Sustainability Challenges: Tools and Methods for Dealing With Deep Uncertainty and Complexity | Frontiers In Robotics And Ai | https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2020.00111 |
Non-state and subnational climate actors have become central to global climate change governance. Quantitatively assessing climate mitigation undertaken by these entities is critical to understand the credibility of this trend. In this Perspective, we make recommendations regarding five main areas of research and methodological development related to evaluating nonstate and subnational climate actions: defining clear boundaries and terminology; use of common methodologies to aggregate and assess non-state and subnational contributions; systematically dealing with issues of overlap; estimating the likelihood of implementation; and addressing data gaps. | Hsu, A; Höhne, N; Kuramochi, T; Roelfsema, M; Weinfurter, A; Xie, Y; Lütkehermöller, K; Chan, S; Corfee-Morlot, J; Drost, P; Faria, P; Gardiner, A; Gordon, DJ; Hale, T; Hultman, NE; Moorhead, J; Reuvers, S; Setzer, J; Singh, N; Weber, C; Widerberg, O | A research roadmap for quantifying non-state and subnational climate mitigation action | Nature Climate Change | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-018-0338-z |
This paper discusses the particular and disproportionate risks to urban children in poverty from various aspects of climate change, both extreme events and changing means. It explores the potential impacts on children's health, learning and psychosocial well-being, and considers the implications of family coping strategies for children. The paper goes on to discuss the implications for adaptation, making recommendations for an adaptation agenda that focuses on the realities for children. Preparatory measures are considered, as well as responses to extreme events and to changes in weather patterns. | Bartlett, S | Climate change and urban children: impacts and implications for adaptation in low- and middle-income countries | Environment And Urbanization | https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247808096125 |
Urban plans often ignore the uneven impacts of hazards on socially vulnerable populations. We evaluate the degree to which equity policies in local networks of plans support risk reduction for socially vulnerable populations, and examine the relationship between equity policies scores and the level of social vulnerability in six cities exposed to floods and projected sea level rise. We find high variability in equity policy support for risk reduction, and that equity policies in plans actually actively increase risk of loss in neighborhoods with high levels of social vulnerability, which in turn could disrupt further development. | Berke, P; Yu, SY; Malecha, M; Cooper, J | Plans that Disrupt Development: Equity Policies and Social Vulnerability in Six Coastal Cities | Journal Of Planning Education And Research | https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X19861144 |
To identify the indicators of adaptive capacity that determine vulnerability of households, an intensive investigation was conducted in farming communities at two locations in the Asian highlands. Livelihood vulnerability was assessed, classified to four categories and regressed against current adaptive capacity using logistic regression. Household head's education, irrigated land, non-agricultural income, and technologies used were associated with adaptive capacity. The strengthening of human, natural and financial capital is identified as the best means of managing risk in farming communities in this mountainous region. | Sujakhu, NM; Ranjitkar, S; Niraula, RR; Salim, MA; Nizami, A; Schmidt-Vogt, D; Xu, JC | Determinants of livelihood vulnerability in farming communities in two sites in the Asian Highlands | Water International | https://doi.org/10.1080/02508060.2017.1416445 |
This article discusses perceptions of climate change, their effects on agricultural activity and the adaptive practices of farmers in the rural commune of Bittit (El Hajeb province, Morocco). Analysis of the results of group interviews and questionnaire surveys conducted among a sample of farmers shows that farmers are aware of climate change. It reveals that the universe of perception of the changes of these farmers is structured around three factors: rainfall, temperature and snow. These factors affect agricultural production systems and farmers respond by developing adaptive practices. | Aziz, L; Mahdi, M; Khouya, AB | CLIMATE CHANGE PERCEPTIONS AND ADAPTIVE PRACTICES OF SAIS FARMERS (MOROCCO) | Collectivus-Revista De Ciencias Sociales | https://doi.org/10.15648/Collectivus.vol7num2.2020.2671 |
Urban policies and city inhabitants behaviors are at the forefront of global environmental issues. We live indeed in an urbanizing world, and cities are responsible for approximately two third of global energy consumptions. How buildings are built, and how cities are organized are both key drivers of greenhouse gases emissions. Making them coherent with environmental constraints often lead to co-benefits with other urban issues such as economic competitiveness or social inclusiveness. This explains why cities are globally active concerning climate change, even if much still needs to be done. | Viguié, V | Cities and climate change: buildings and urban land use | Comptes Rendus Geoscience | https://doi.org/10.5802/crgeos.19 |
Irrespective of mitigation efforts, adaptation measures will be needed in most parts of the world. The greatest challenge will be for developing countries. The estimated needs for adaptation funding in developing countries are considered in the context of the status and 'delivery' of the current financing efforts made under the UN regime and the anticipated Adaptation Fund. A considerable gap exists between the actual (as well as projected) supply of funding and estimated adaptation needs. A number of alternative financial mechanisms are suggested to close the gap between estimated needs and actual delivery. | Flåm, KH; Skjaerseth, JB | Does adequate financing exist for adaptation in developing countries? | Climate Policy | https://doi.org/10.3763/cpol.2008.0568 |
Improving food security requires development of farmer-preferred varieties that are more nutritious and adapted to specific agro-ecologies and changing climatic conditions. Challinor et al. report that the time from initiating breeding for a trait to adoption of the resulting variety is 18 years, broadly agreeing with other findings that an average age of varieties in use in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is 20 years2 — too long compared to the time frame in which climate models predict varietal characteristics will need to change. | Barnett, J; Tschakert, P; Head, L; Adger, WN | A science of loss | Nature Climate Change | https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate3140 |
We examine the driving forces behind farm households' decisions to adapt to climate change, and the impact of adaptation on farm households' food productivity. We estimate a simultaneous equations model with endogenous switching to account for the heterogeneity in the decision to adapt or not, and for unobservable characteristics of farmers and their farm. Access to credit, extension and information are found to be the main drivers behind adaptation. We find that adaptation increases food productivity, that the farm households that did not adapt would benefit the most from adaptation. | Di Falco, S; Veronesi, M; Yesuf, M | Does Adaptation to Climate Change Provide Food Security? A Micro-Perspective from Ethiopia | American Journal Of Agricultural Economics | https://doi.org/10.1093/ajae/aar006 |
Rice farmers in the Kumbungu District in Northern Ghana interact with information systems. Of interest here is the degree to which knowledge derived from such interaction is actionable. The paper addresses the overall question: what information systems are currently providing agricultural information to rice farmers, and to what extent does this result in actionable knowledge creation? Findings revealed that Farmer-to-Farmer systems contribute most to actionable knowledge creation. We conclude that systems integration and local actor participation are essential for actionable knowledge creation in information systems. | Nyamekye, AB; Dewulf, A; Van Slobbe, E; Termeer, K | Information systems and actionable knowledge creation in rice-farming systems in Northern Ghana | African Geographical Review | https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2019.1659153 |
The catastrophic floods of 1987 in the Alpine region caused enormous damage. The numerous debris flows and floods were caused by the extraordinary atmospheric conditions in the upper parts of the mountains. The thawing of snow which began two months later than usual coincided with summer thunderstorms. Nevertheless, the enormous damage was not caused by the natural phenomena only but much more by the fact that people had occupied land which never before had been developed (opened for traffic and tourism) without taking into account the risks. | SCHWARZL, S | CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF FLOOD CATASTROPHES IN THE ALPS - EXAMPLES FROM SUMMER 1987 | Energy And Buildings | https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-7788(91)90103-A |
The challenge of climate change is an outstanding example of a systems problem. Engineers have an essential, and so far under-recognised, role in responding to the climate challenge, alongside many other disciplines in environmental science, economics, social sciences and politics. In this paper, we identify a number of the distinctive systems characteristics of climate change, from an engineering perspective. These relate to issues of spatial and temporal scale, uncertainty and interdisciplinarity. The challenge of implementing transitions to a sustainable future system state is discussed. | Hall, J; Pidgeon, N | A systems view of climate change | Civil Engineering And Environmental Systems | https://doi.org/10.1080/10286608.2010.482659 |
This paper examines Australia's national policies for adapting to climate change impacts. Recent developments in research funding, institutional capacities and extreme events have resulted in a greater interest and level of activity in adaptation policy. Based on a historical review of national policy, adaptation policy is considered within a political frame and political values, especially the values of neoliberalism, within adaptation policy are identified. Of interest are the implications of these values for the outcomes of adaptation policy, with attention given to the problem of maladaptation. | Granberg, M; Glover, L | Adaptation and Maladaptation in Australian National Climate Change Policy | Journal Of Environmental Policy & Planning | https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2013.823857 |
As the consequences of climate change become better understood, there is growing agreement among development practitioners and academics on the need for mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection. This review paper assesses the progress in mainstreaming efforts, revealing that there has been considerable progress made to date. However, a number of critical issues relating to the challenges of such mainstreaming in the context of developing countries and the conceptual framework needed to assess the outcomes of such developmental programmes are yet to be addressed. These issues are examined in this paper. | Kundo, HK; Brueckner, M; Spencer, R; Davis, J | Mainstreaming climate adaptation into social protection: The issues yet to be addressed | Journal Of International Development | https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3567 |
Social protection initiatives in the context of agriculture are unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider the multiple risks and both short- and long-term shocks and stresses associated with climate change and natural disaster. By exploring linkages between climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction and social protection in the agricultural sector, IDS researcher's have developed the concept of 'adaptive social protection'. Studying adaptive social protection involves examining the role of social protection in strengthening adaptation and for developing more climate-resilient social protection interventions. | Davies, M; Guenther, B; Leavy, J; Mitchell, T; Tanner, T | 'Adaptive Social Protection': Synergies for Poverty Reduction | Ids Bulletin-Institute Of Development Studies | null |
The international community's support for adaptation in developing countries has proliferated through numerous complementary funding mechanisms. A range of serious practical issues are emerging, however, as adaptation moves from theory and international negotiation to implementation. We identify three areas deserving greater scrutiny: in-country priorities, entry points and delivery systems, and provide recommendations for improving adaptation practice. These concerns, if not addressed, have the potential to hamper attempts at effective delivery and to increase the vulnerability of intended beneficiaries of the adaptation agenda. | Conway, D; Mustelin, J | Strategies for improving adaptation practice in developing countries | Nature Climate Change | https://doi.org/10.1038/NCLIMATE2199 |
Looking into the future of agriculture raises three challenging questions: How can agriculture deal with an uncertain future? How do local vulnerabilities and global disparities respond to this uncertain future? How should we prioritise adaptation to overcome the resulting future risks? This paper analyses the broad question of how climate change science may provide some insights into these issues. The data provided for the analysis are the product of our new research on global impacts of climate change in agriculture. The questions are analysed across world regions to provide some thoughts on policy development. | Iglesias, A; Quiroga, S; Diz, A | Looking into the future of agriculture in a changing climate | European Review Of Agricultural Economics | https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbr037 |
Life sciences universities (LSUs) play a specific role in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). A number of SDGs address topics that have been focal points for LSUs throughout their history of research, teaching and societal mission. Furthermore, LSUs traditionally have strong links to stakeholders central to the transformative process, such as the food sector, forestry and renewable energies. However, life sciences universities and the university system will have to undergo transformations if they want to contribute to a profound shift in societies. | Gratzer, G; Muhar, A; Winiwarter, V; Lindenthal, T; Radinger-Peer, V; Melcher, A | The 2030 Agenda as a challenge to life sciences universities | Gaia-Ecological Perspectives For Science And Society | https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.28.2.7 |
This review critically assesses a large and growing literature on multiactor environmental governance. The first section provides an historical and conceptual background to the observed increase in such arrangements. The second section describes the diversity of governance arrangements and the related actor constellations to address environmental issues, and the third section offers some explanations for the origins, form, and effectiveness of multiactor governance arrangements. The conclusion reflects on some of the key challenges in advancing and deepening research in this area and suggests some fruitful avenues for future work. | Newell, P; Pattberg, P; Schroeder, H | Multiactor Governance and the Environment | Annual Review Of Environment And Resources, Vol 37 | https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-020911-094659 |
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic points to unequally distributed vulnerabilities in society. Unevenly distributed disadvantages are also found in processes of a social-ecological transformation. The concept of working-class environmentalism arguably presents a way out of this deficiency through incorporating and focusing on working class and precarious people in processes of social change. We develop four theses for our argumentation to revisit working-class environmentalism and conclude that this would build social resilience for coping with future crises of the whole of society. | Friedrich, J; Zscheischler, J; Faust, H | Social-ecological transformation and COVID-19: the need to revisit working-class environmentalism | Gaia-Ecological Perspectives For Science And Society | https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.1.5 |
Sporting societies around the world are being impacted by a variety of contemporary climatic challenges. The sport management literature indicates that these impacts have disrupted sport. Some adaptations have been implemented, but a comprehensive planning framework is absent from the literature. Learning from other industries, thus, was considered, and an examination of the literature from the water and forestry industries was conducted. The examination resulted in the discovery of six key themes offering insights or practical lessons to guide sport organizations in their efforts to organize for adapting to climatic impacts. | Mallen, C; Dingle, G | Organizing Sport for Climate Related Adaptations: Lessons from the Water and Forestry Industries | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su131810462 |
This study presents a conceptual framework for analyzing urban resilience in the context of climate change. The key conceptual elements of resilience are first identified and then reorganized with a focus on cities and climate change adaptation. This study covers not only ecological and engineering resilience but also resilience as a sociopolitical process from an evolutionary perspective. The study's conceptual framework centers on resilience as it relates to cities and climate change. Its findings are expected to shed light on future urban planning and policies for adapting to climate change. | Kim, D; Lim, U | Urban Resilience in Climate Change Adaptation: A Conceptual Framework | Sustainability | https://doi.org/10.3390/su8040405 |
This contribution highlights the data and concepts, articulated by the research of international agencies (UNWoman, UNI-CEF, WTO, WHO) regarding the consequences of climate change. Besides migrations, gender relations and generational status are often the most involved aspects in dramatic changes. The author then addresses the question of whether anthropology can contribute, by the ethnographic study experiences on climate change, in taking another step that could be constituted by an anthropology of the implementation for equality in climate change situations. | Breda, N | GENDER, CHILDREN AND ANTHROPOLOGY IN THE FACE OF CLIMATE CHANGE | Collectivus-Revista De Ciencias Sociales | https://doi.org/10.15648/Coll.1.2019.11 |
This case study explores the interface between climate change adaptation and socio-economic development in the Southern African region. It seeks to make the climate-development juncture more palpable and further highlights the challenges of integration from a policymaker's perspective. It makes a normative case concerning the following key questions: Why is it advantageous to integrate adaptation into development planning, given that the degree and specific advent of climate change is still uncertain? How should this best be done? Which action is required at what level? | Chevallier, R | Integrating adaptation into development strategies: The Southern African perspective | Climate And Development | https://doi.org/10.3763/cdev.2010.0039 |
An increasingly important threat to the high population and large concentration of residential, industrial, commercial and urban infrastructure systems in Africa's coastal megacity of Lagos is flooding. Over the past decade, flooding in Lagos has increased significantly, drawing increasing attention to the need for flood risk management. The paper examines the current approach to flood risk management by public and private agents in the city in the context of international flood risk management practices. The implications of existing flood management for future flood risks are also discussed. | Adelekan, IO | Flood risk management in the coastal city of Lagos, Nigeria | Journal Of Flood Risk Management | https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12179 |
Geographical scale is a factor in interactions between climate change and sustainable development, because of varying spatial dynamics of key processes and because of varying scales at which decision-making is focused. In a world where the meaning of 'global' and 'local' is being reshaped by technological and social change, a challenge to sustainable development is realizing the impressive, but often elusive, potentials for climate-change-related actions at different scales to be complementary and reinforcing. Climate change adaptation is suggested as an example. | Wilbanks, TJ | Scale and sustainability | Climate Policy | https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2007.9685656 |
Tuvalu was the last country to experience Covid-19, with no community transmission prior to November 2022, yet remains most well-known for its exposure to climate change. The pandemic presents an opportunity to challenge narratives of both displacement and disease risk, and advance understanding of mobility justice. During the pandemic, Tuvaluan's internal migration to cultural lands revived a sense of community, strengthened cultural relations and provided an opportunity to reinvigorate customary forms of self-sufficiency. | Farbotko, C | Mobilities and Immobilities in Tuvalu: an unexpected pandemic experience? | Australian Geographer | https://doi.org/10.1080/00049182.2023.2179333 |
Agriculture is central to the food security and economic growth of developing countries, providing the main source of livelihood for three out of four of the world's poor. Yet it is the poorest farmers who are most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. This paper briefly reviews the potential impact of climate change on food crops in the context of the wider debate on future food and water security in the developing world. The authors ask whether we should wait or act now to tackle the anticipated future problems. | Wheeler, T; Kay, M | Food crop production, water and climate change in the developing world | Outlook On Agriculture | https://doi.org/10.5367/oa.2010.0017 |
This research investigates the potential impact of warming on Italian agriculture. Using a detailed dataset of 16,000 farms across Italy, the study examines likely warming impacts in different regions and for different sectors of Italian agriculture. The study finds that farm net revenues are very sensitive to seasonal changes in temperature and precipitation. Livestock and crop farms have different responses to climate as do rainfed farms and irrigated crop farms. The overall results suggest mild consequences from marginal changes in climate but increasingly harmful effects from more severe climate scenarios. | Bozzola, M; Massetti, E; Mendelsohn, R; Capitanio, F | A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Italian agriculture | European Review Of Agricultural Economics | https://doi.org/10.1093/erae/jbx023 |
Northern Europe is one of the regions where more frequent and more severe storms and storm surges are expected due to climatic changes. In order to maintain an acceptable risk of flooding suitable adaptation strategies must be defined and implemented. Optimum solutions demand collaboration of different professionals and thus simple graphical means must be employed to illustrate the economic impacts of the change in risk of flooding. A case study indicates that urban drainage infrastructure capacity should be upgraded while there is currently no economic incentive to improve protection against sea surges. | Arnbjerg-Nielsen, K; Fleischer, HS | Feasible adaptation strategies for increased risk of flooding in cities due to climate change | Water Science And Technology | https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2009.298 |
Using unique crop-specific data gathered over 7 years, we study if and how maize-producing farmers in Ethiopia adjust their land allocation decisions in response to pre-planting-season weather variations. We show that farmers adjust their land allocation decisions in response to increased temperatures early in the growing season. In addition to quantifying a substantial adaptation margin that has not been documented before, our study also reveals the presence of a weather variation-induced expansion of maize production into areas that are less suitable for maize cultivation. | Ahmed, MH; Tesfaye, WM; Gassmann, F | Early growing season weather variation, expectation formation and agricultural land allocation decisions in Ethiopia | Journal Of Agricultural Economics | https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-9552.12507 |
In the context of climate change, there is potential for a higher frequency of natural disasters. Here a linear regression analysis is employed to link the relationship between the natural disaster occurrence and average global temperature from 1980 to 2010. The results indicate that epidemic, extreme temperature, flood and storm events are strongly affected by climate. If the average global temperature increases by 1 degrees C, the occurrence of epidemic, extreme temperature, flood and storm would increase by 101, 42, 268 and 95 occurrences per year respectively. | Pan, XB; Shen, DN; Dong, XJ; Patton, B | Natural Disaster Occurrence and Average Global Temperature | Disaster Advances | null |
A recent study by Feng et al. [Feng S, Krueger A, Oppenheimer M (2010) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:14257-14262] in PNAS reported statistical evidence of a weather-driven causal effect of crop yields on human migration from Mexico to the United States. We show that this conclusion is based on a different statistical model than the one stated in the paper. When we correct for this mistake, there is no evidence of a causal link. | Auffhammer, M; Vincent, JR | Unobserved time effects confound the identification of climate change impacts | Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202049109 |
In March 2015, a new international blueprint for disaster risk reduction (DRR) was adopted in Sendai, Japan, at the end of the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (WCDRR, 14-18 March 2015). We review and discuss the agreed commitments and targets, as well as the negotiation leading the Sendai Framework for DRR (SF-DRR) and discuss briefly its implication for the later UN-led negotiations on sustainable development goals and climate change. | Mysiak, J; Surminski, S; Thieken, A; Mechler, R; Aerts, J | Brief communication: Sendai framework for disaster risk reduction - success or warning sign for Paris? | Natural Hazards And Earth System Sciences | https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-2189-2016 |
This article investigates whether it is possible to bring the longue duree, or the re-contextualization of risk distribution and accumulation, into litigation about climate outcomes. We do this by analyzing the structure of disaster litigation to identify if and whether historical harm is included in argumentation and by applying the concept of takings to a hypothetical legal argument of repetitive flooding in Alaska. We conclude that invisibility of historical harm in climate and disaster litigation gives insight into the preference and structure of the law. | Marino, E; Jerolleman, A; Jessee, N; Weyiouanna, A; Topkok, MS; Keene, E; Manda, S | Is the Longue Duree a Legal Argument?: Understanding Takings Doctrine in Climate Change and Settler Colonial Contexts in the United States | Human Organization | null |
This paper examines whether a country's stage of development affects its climate sensitivity. The paper begins with a model of agriculture that shows that the effect of development on climate sensitivity is ambiguous, depending on the substitution between capital and climate. To resolve this issue, the climate sensitivity of agriculture in the United States, Brazil, and India is measured using a Ricardian approach. Relying on both intertemporal as well as cross-country comparisons, the empirical analysis suggests that increasing development reduces climate sensitivity. | Mendelsohn, R; Dinar, A; Sanghi, A | The effect of development on the climate sensitivity of agriculture | Environment And Development Economics | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X01000055 |
Farmland values have traditionally been valued using seasonal temperature and precipitation but degree days over the growing season offer a more compact alternative. We find that degree days and daily temperature are interchangeable over the growing season. However, the impact of degree days in spring and summer is quite different. Climate effects outside the growing season are also significant. Cross sectional evidence suggests seasonal temperature and precipitation are very important whereas temperature extremes have relatively small effects. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. | Massetti, E; Mendelsohn, R; Chonabayashi, S | How well do degree days over the growing season capture the effect of climate on farmland values? | Energy Economics | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2016.09.004 |
This paper tests whether climate has an impact on per capita rural income. The study finds that total (agricultural and nonagricultural) income in rural counties and municipios in the US and Brazil are affected by climate. The study demonstrates that this income effect is due to changes in the net value of agriculture. Regions with better climates for agriculture support higher rural incomes and regions with poor climates have more rural poverty. The results also suggest that global warming will likely increase rural poverty. | Mendelsohn, R; Basist, A; Kurukulasuriya, P; Dinar, A | Climate and rural income | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9010-5 |
Recent climate change has affected all sectors of society, from economic to social. There are few methods to assess the potential impacts of climate change as well as the options available to reduce the risks. The development of an integrated platform for assessing the multi-sectorial effects of these changes appears to be a necessity in order to eliminate imminent risks. The novelty introduced in this research article is to provide the opportunity to explore and understand interactions between different environmental sectors through the use of an integrated assessment platform. | Savin, C; Moldoveanu, F; Moldoveanu, A | MODELING CLIMATE CHANGES THROUGH DELAYED RESPONSE PLATFORMS | University Politehnica Of Bucharest Scientific Bulletin Series C-Electrical Engineering And Computer Science | null |
Resilience has been promoted as an important objective for the global development community, in part, as a response to concern about the potential impacts of climate change and related risks. A review of the challenges of achieving water security in urban areas of developing countries suggests that a specific focus on resilience may distract communities from more effective interventions. It would be more useful to support relevant institutions to address current service delivery priorities. This will better enable them to manage future climate change and the challenges that this may bring. | Muller, M | Urban water security in Africa: The face of climate and development challenges | Development Southern Africa | https://doi.org/10.1080/0376835X.2015.1113121 |
The climate crisis is compounding disaster risk around the world, heightening the vulnerabilities of communities in disaster-prone regions and increasing the pressure on humanitarian actors to respond effectively to the resulting challenges. The Beyond Barriers research led by Humanitarian Advisory Group in partnership with World Vision Australia, explores ways to strengthen the integration(1) of disaster risk reduction (DRR)(2) and climate change adaptation (CCA)(3) to enhance resilience outcomes for communities in the Pacific region. | Quinn, S; Lees, J | Aligning disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation: Pacific perceptions, practice and policy | Australian Journal Of Emergency Management | null |
In recent years, communities located in rural areas of Colombia have established actions aimed at the conservation of natural resources that have indirectly served as a strategy to reduce the effects of climate change at the local level, this document presents some actions that have been carried out the communities of Bahia Malaga located in the Buenaventura District to reduce deforestation levels in their territory and thus contribute to the conservation and reduction of greenhouse effects, in addition to adaptation actions and mitigation of such changes. | Ponce, RA; Marin, LAV | Community governance actions to reduce effects of climate change in the community council of black communities of Bahia Malaga -Buenaventura district | Entorno Geografico | https://doi.org/10.25100/eg.v0i20.10637 |
This article presents a conceptual model to investigate population migration as a possible adaptive response to risks associated with climate change. The model reflects established theories of human migration behaviour, and is based upon the concepts of vulnerability, exposure to risk and adaptive capacity, as developed in the climate change research community. The application of the model is illustrated using the case of 1930s migration patterns in rural Eastern Oklahoma, which took place during a period of repeated crop failures due to drought and flooding. | McLeman, R; Smit, B | Migration as an adaptation to climate change | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-005-9000-7 |
The frequently occurring city smog in China has become a hot topic and raised extensive discussion in the public health domain. Our study tries to explore how citizens attribute causation and responded to city smog in Hefei, Anhui Province. The data from 420 respondents generally answered our research questions. The result suggests that attribution of responsibility can be influenced by risk perception, citizens' occupation and source reliance. Attribution of responsibility, source reliance and risk perception can affect the citizens' protective actions. | Cheng, P; Wei, JC; Ge, Y | Who should be blamed? The attribution of responsibility for a city smog event in China | Natural Hazards | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2597-1 |
In an international comparison the state of evaluation research in Germany has its deficits; especially concerning theory-based, comparative or generalizing approaches. The article discovers the reasons for this diagnosis. Thus, firstly an overview of the international debate on evaluation in spatial planning research is given with an emphasis on the USA. Then, methodological questions and results of provided implementation and impact analyses for spatial planning instruments are discussed in greater detail. Finally, suggestions for evaluations in the German spatial planning research are given. | Diller, C | Evaluation of Settlement Development Planning. Ideas from the International Debate for Germany | Zeitschrift Fur Evaluation | null |
While extreme climate events can significantly affect African agriculture, equally important are more gradual changes as well as interactions with socially rooted shocks and vulnerabilities. Existing scenarios of climate change's impact in Africa are diverse and uncertain, but largely unfavourable and point to the importance of mediating social factors such as governance, HIV/AIDS, land tenure, trade patterns and market structures. Efforts are needed to improve technical and institutional adaptive capacities and to improve understanding of climate fluctuations, human vulnerability and their interaction. | Vogel, C | Seven fat years and seven lean years? Climate change and agriculture in Africa | Ids Bulletin-Institute Of Development Studies | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1759-5436.2005.tb00192.x |
We examine whether Caribbean islands will be worse off as hurricane activity alters under climate change. To this end, we construct island level damages for synthetic storm tracks generated from four climate models under current and future climate settings. Using a flexible stochastic dominance preference ordering framework, we find that the fat-tailed and uncertain nature of the distribution of storms makes it difficult to conclude that the region will be worse off under climate change, and is likely to depend on the degree of adaptation. | Spencer, N; Strobl, E | Hurricanes, climate change, and social welfare: evidence from the Caribbean | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-020-02810-6 |
This paper provides a brief discussion on the implications and outcomes of ethnographic filmmaking as a means to understanding environmental perception among farming communities. I argue that the unique contribution of filmmaking as a research method lies in its epistemological ability to engage with diverse ways of knowing. In this paper, I provide a close examination of a vignette filmed during my research to demonstrate how this methodological and analytical approach can be used to reveal environmental perception and knowledge as processes, rather than as substances. | Franzen, SM | Framing nature: visual representations of ecological paradigms | Renewable Agriculture And Food Systems | https://doi.org/10.1017/S174217051700059X |
The purpose of our paper is to characterize the social pillar using the three criteria of social cohesion, equity and safety. Alongside this characterization we develop a policy framework to promote social sustainability, which has been the subject of much academic interest in recent years. In addition, we demonstrate that the social sustainability policies we advocate are capable of embracing environmental sustainability. Our work therefore provides a fresh perspective on sustainable development policies by emphasizing the importance of the social pillar to the policy making process. | Ballet, J; Bazin, D; Mahieu, FR | A policy framework for social sustainability: Social cohesion, equity and safety | Sustainable Development | https://doi.org/10.1002/sd.2092 |
The 2015 Paris Climate summit consolidated the transition of the climate regime from a regulatory to a catalytic and facilitative model. A key component of this shift was the intergovernmental regime's embrace of climate action by sub- and nonstate actors. Although a groundswell of transnational climate action has been growing over time, the Paris Agreement seeks to bring this phenomenon into the heart of the new climate regime. This forum article describes that transition and considers its implications. | Hale, T | All Hands on Deck: The Paris Agreement and Nonstate Climate Action | Global Environmental Politics | https://doi.org/10.1162/GLEP_a_00362 |
Republic of Moldova's territory's Livelihood Vulnerability Index (LVI), calculated from exposure, sensitivity and adaptive capacity to climate risks, is presented. Extreme values of climate risk factors, water supply, and statistical data on socio-demographic profile were used as the initial data. As a case study, LVI and its components for the Cogalnic River's basin within the limits of Republic of Moldova's boundaries was extracted from the obtained maps. | Raileanu, V; Nedealcov, M; Mîndru, G; Cojocari, R; Crivova, O | VULNERABILITY TO CLIMATIC RISKS IN NATIONAL AND LOCAL ASPECTS | Present Environment And Sustainable Development | https://doi.org/10.15551/pesd2019132019 |
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 progress, the paper proposes a revision of local planning hierarchy in order to give a primary role to risk assessment in every sector of local development. | Bertin, M; Musco, F; Fabian, L | Rethinking planning hierarchy considering climate change as global catastrophe | Climate Risk Management | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100252 |
This paper evaluates the literature about hazard insurance availability and purchase. Hazard insurance has the potential to help individuals and households to prepare for, mitigate risks of, and recover from hazard events, but only insofar as insurance is available to them, and they purchase it. Unfortunately, unique characteristics of hazard risks and evolving conditions caused by climate change limit the availability of hazard insurance, and a variety of factors make individuals and households unlikely to purchase hazard insurance. Implications of these findings are discussed. | Savitt, A | Insurance as a tool for hazard risk management? An evaluation of the literature | Natural Hazards | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11069-016-2706-1 |
This paper examines the rapid changes made on U.S. climate change policies and regulations under the Trump administration for the past 22 months since his inauguration in January 2017. Policy changes are made on a wide range of climate-related programs: Paris Agreement, Green Climate Fund, Clean Power Plan, CAFe automobile emission standards, arctic drilling, methane rule, and farm animal emissions. This paper discusses that Trump effects will soon be observed by several empirical indicators. | Seo, SN | Economic questions on global warming during the Trump years | Journal Of Public Affairs | https://doi.org/10.1002/pa.1914 |
Firms and individuals will likely engage in substantial private adaptation with respect to climate change in such sectors as farming, energy, timber, and recreation because it is in their interest to do so. The shared benefit nature of joint adaptation, however, will cause individuals to underprovide joint adaptation in such areas as water control, sea walls, and ecological management. Governments need to start thinking about joint adaptation, being careful to design efficient responses which treat climate change problems as they arise. | Mendelsohn, R | Efficient adaptation to climate change | Climatic Change | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005507810350 |
How can social protection help tackle the impacts of climate change and improve household and community resilience in developing countries? This article sets out the case for more climate-responsive social-protection systems, and proposes a design framework to achieve this. Four features can help, namely: scaleable and flexible programmes that can increase in response to climate disasters and then scale back as necessary; targeting that responds to climate events; livelihood enhancements; and building institutions for climate and disaster risk management. | Kuriakose, AT; Heltberg, R; Wiseman, W; Costella, C; Cipryk, R; Cornelius, S | Climate-Responsive Social Protection | Development Policy Review | https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12037 |
This paper examines the important role that can be played by sovereign wealth funds in financing of disaster risk management. The governments of Tuvalu and Kiribati are predicting climate change and natural disaster risks imposing increasing financial pressure on their economies. Having the required financial response in the aftermath of disasters is important to these low-lying atolls. The long-term sustainability of sovereign wealth funds in Kiribati and Tuvalu in contributing to ex post disaster risk management is examined. | Taupo, T | Rethinking the role of sovereign wealth funds in small island developing states: evidence from Tuvalu and Kiribati | Asian-Pacific Economic Literature | https://doi.org/10.1111/apel.12269 |
This article focuses on how the construction of 'migrant' and 'refugee' as a social threat is involved in the specific ways in which climate change induced migration is communicated in Western media. It puts a spotlight on a major drawback of climate policies: the failure to make room for the issue of climate migration. The article explores how a climate justice frame would allow the evolution of conceptual perspectives that are more conducive to safeguarding vulnerable communities' rights and interests. | Sakellari, M | Media coverage of climate change induced migration: Implications for meaningful media discourse | Global Media And Communication | https://doi.org/10.1177/17427665211064974 |
Much can be learned about adaptation by applying structures and methodologies already used in other research fields. This study employs a public economic policy approach to investigate how - or if at all - adaptation should be supported by the public sector. Three different fields of adaptation activity are identified which are especially relevant for government intervention and the study proposes ways in which government intervention could be conducted. The analysis takes into account that developing regions are particularly vulnerable and they have insufficient funds to adequately adapt to climate change. | Aakre, S; Rübbelke, DTG | Objectives of public economic policy and the adaptation to climate change | Journal Of Environmental Planning And Management | https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2010.488116 |
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results. This quote by Albert Einstein highlights our need for new formats of communication to address the knowledge-action gap regarding climate change and other sustainability challenges. This includes reflection, and communication spaces, as well as methods and approaches that can catalyze the emergence of transformative change and action. In this article we present and reflect on experiments we carried out at international climate negotiations and conferences. | Fraude, C; Bruhn, T; Stasiak, D; Wamsler, C; Mar, K; Schäpke, N; Schroeder, H; Lawrence, M | Creating space for reflection and dialogue Examples of new modes of communication for empowering climate action | Gaia-Ecological Perspectives For Science And Society | https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.30.3.9 |
Based on a primary survey conducted in India, this article examines the merits of crop insurance in adapting to the changing climate. However, lack of awareness and the complicated process of agricultural insurance were found to be major obstacles to the uptake of such schemes among small and marginal farmers. While crop insurance might help farmers at the household level, there is a need in developing countries like India to devise insurance schemes that take account of the long-term negative consequences of present adaptation practices. | Panda, A | Climate Variability and the Role of Access to Crop Insurance as a Social-Protection Measure: Insights from India | Development Policy Review | https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12039 |
A working group was held during the 2017 National Adaptation Forum to build collaborative capacity on issues related to Tribal agriculture and natural resource management in a changing climate. We developed three synthetic themes from these discussions and dialogue to highlight on-going opportunities, but also demonstrate areas for continued engagement with Tribes related to effective agricultural and natural resource management. We hope this forum demonstrates the critical importance of partnerships, and motivates further coordination and collaboration among Tribes, universities and Federal agencies. | Reyes, JJ; Wiener, JD; Doan-Crider, D; Novak, R | Building collaborative capacity: supporting tribal agriculture and natural resources in a changing climate | Renewable Agriculture And Food Systems | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1742170517000801 |
Despite widespread acceptance of the idea of working across disciplines and methods in climate change research, the interpretive social sciences continue to be relatively neglected in interdisciplinary research endeavours. Much greater appreciation across epistemological differences is necessary for inclusive collaborative efforts, which in turn requires explicit discussion of what those differences are. Based on the author's participation in an interdisciplinary research project on climate change in Tibet, this article discusses three conceptual challenges: knowledge, system and ontology. | Yeh, ET | How can experience of local residents be knowledge?' Challenges in interdisciplinary climate change research | Area | https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12189 |
Recent experiences of Wisconsin dairy farmers with flooding and drought, among other climatic hazards, have resulted in substantial crop losses for a farming population that is already declining because of various economic circumstances. The salience of agroclimatic hazards and responses of dairy farmers to them may well determine the long-term viability of the family farm. Two-thirds of the farmers surveyed believed that climate is changing, and one-third perceived continued experience with climatic variability as a threat to their occupation. | CROSS, JA | AGROCLIMATIC HAZARDS AND DAIRY FARMING IN WISCONSIN | Geographical Review | https://doi.org/10.2307/215453 |
Climate adaptation presents some new forms of planning uncertainty. We identified thirteen types of climate change uncertainty and grouped these into four categories. Next, we summarized eleven planning techniques, noting that only six of these techniques reflect an adapt and monitor approach that actively engages uncertainty. We then evaluated the types of uncertainty and planning techniques identified in forty-four US local climate adaptation plans. We found no communities used scenario planning or robust strategies despite the emphasis placed on these techniques in the literature. | Stults, M; Larsen, L | Tackling Uncertainty in US Local Climate Adaptation Planning | Journal Of Planning Education And Research | https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456X18769134 |
Variations in the number of hot days, their frequency, intensity, and duration in Georgia are studied using observational data from 50 weather stations for the period of 1936-2013. The periods of the onset of hot days in the year and their maximum intensity in different physiographic conditions are identified. The zoning of Georgia was carried out according to the rate of changes in the number of hot days. The results enhance the understanding of climate change in Georgia under global warming conditions. | Elizbarashvili, ES; Elizbarashvili, ME; Kutaladze, NB; Elizbarashvili, SE; Chelidze, NZ | Long-term changes in the number and temperature of hot days in Georgia under global warming | Russian Meteorology And Hydrology | https://doi.org/10.3103/S1068373917100065 |