Assessing Vulnerability To Global Environmental Change

Author : Richard J. T. Klein,Anthony G. Patt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136571497

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Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main imperative of research and international action. However, much of the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision makers. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap. It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together many different applications from disaster studies, climate change impact studies and several other fields and provides the most comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and applications to date, illustrated with examples from different disciplines, regions and periods, and from local through to regional, national and international levels. Case study topics cover sea level rise, vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services, assessing the vulnerability of human health and 'double exposure' to climate change and trade liberalization amongst other issues. Research outcomes stress that science-policy dialogues must be transparent to be effective and concentrate on a mutual understanding of the concepts used. A key research finding is that the most useful information for decision makers is that which shows the separate causes and drivers of vulnerability, rather than presenting vulnerability in an aggregated form. The book concludes with a unifying framework for analysing integrated methodologies of vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be linked to reduce vulnerability.

Author : Edited By Anthony G. Patt ... [et Al.]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 6000012055

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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change by Edited By Anthony G. Patt ... [et Al.] Pdf

Author : Ron Benioff,Sandra Guill,Jeffrey Lee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400903036

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Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessments by Ron Benioff,Sandra Guill,Jeffrey Lee Pdf

The possible impacts of global climate change on different countries has led to the development and ratification of the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC) and has a strong bearing on the future sustainable development of developing countries and countries with economies in transition. The preparation of analytical methodologies and tools for carrying out assessments of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change is therefore of prime importance to these countries. Such assessments are needed to both fulfill the reporting requirements of the countries under the FCCC as well as to prepare their own climate change adaptation and mitigation plans. The vulnerability and adaptation assessment guidelines prepared by the U.S. Country Studies Program bring together all the latest knowledge and experience from around the world on both vulnerability analysis as well as adaptation methodologies. It is currently being applied successfully by scientists in over fifty countries from all the regions of the globe. This guidance is being published to share it with the wider scientific community interested in global climate change issues. This guidance document has two primary purposes: • To assist countries in making decisions about the scope and methods for their vulnerability and adaptation assessments, • To provide countries with guidance and step-by-step instructions on each of the basic elements of vulnerability and adaptation assessments.

Author : Ian Burton,Elizabeth Malone,Saleemul Huq
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 052161760X

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Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change by Ian Burton,Elizabeth Malone,Saleemul Huq Pdf

Adaptation is a process by which individuals, communities and countries seek to cope with the consequences of climate change. The process of adaptation is not new; the idea of incorporating future climate risk into policy-making is. While our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts has become clearer, the availability of practical guidance on adaptation has not kept pace. The development of the Adaptation Policy Framework (APF) is intended to help provide the rapidly evolving process of adaptation policy-making with a much-needed roadmap. Ultimately, the purpose of the APF is to support adaptation processes to protect - and enhance - human well-being in the face of climate change. This volume will be invaluable for everyone working on climate change adaptation and policy-making.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Subcommittee for a Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309178693

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New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on the Human Dimensions of Global Change,Subcommittee for a Workshop on New Directions in Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment Pdf

With effective climate change mitigation policies still under development, and with even the most aggressive proposals unable to halt climate change immediately, many decision makers are focusing unprecedented attention on the need for strategies to adapt to climate changes that are now unavoidable. The effects of climate change will touch every corner of the world's economies and societies; adaptation is inevitable. The remaining question is to what extent humans will anticipate and reduce undesired consequences of climate change, or postpone response until after climate change impacts have altered ecological and socioeconomic systems so significantly that opportunities for adaptation become limited. This book summarizes a National Research Council workshop at which presentations and discussion identified specific needs associated with this gap between the demand and supply of scientific information about climate change adaptation.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251311387

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A review of existing approaches and methods to assess climate change vulnerability of forests and forest-dependent people by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Until recently, considerably more attention was paid to using forests to mitigate climate change, through the absorption of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, than there was on considering the need to adapt forests to avoid the worst effects that climate change could have on them. The switch from a mitigation-heavy approach to one that considers adaptation in a more balanced manner underscores the need to have approaches to assess the vulnerability of forests to climate change. One reason for this more balanced focus may be due to the realization by the broader public, governmental organizations and the forest science community that the climate change that has already occurred is permanent in human terms, because it takes centuries for much of the CO2 emitted from fossil fuel sources to be removed from the atmosphere. There are already substantial impacts that are being seen in the world’s forests. These impacts are certain to continue increasing until CO2 emissions drop to lower levels. For that reason, adaptation of the world’s forests requires attention. The approaches to assessing vulnerability can be categorized according to the focus they each provide. Contextual vulnerability addresses current issues of climate and is usually evaluated using participatory techniques with people who live in, or work with, forests. Outcome vulnerability looks at the biophysical vulnerability of forests; it is often used to assess the cause-and-effect of climate change on a biological system. Vulnerability assessments can be highly technical and quantitative, using advanced computer programs and geographic information systems, or they can be based on social science approaches to obtaining qualitative information from people.

Author : Roger E Kasperson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136539008

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Integrating Science and Policy by Roger E Kasperson Pdf

As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount. This book aims to help close the gap between science and practice. Based on a two year collaborative project between Harvard and Clark Universities, the book takes as its focus the vulnerability and resilience of people around the world to the effects of environmental change, a mature area of research in which one might expect the gap between science and policy/practice to have been extensively bridged. The book presents analysis of past studies, interviews conducted with the producers and users of scientific knowledge, and case studies performed by leading scholars across a spectrum of international settings and political systems. Crucially, the authors identify new directions and tools for closing the gap between science and policy across a range of situations and societies. The result is an illuminating collection of studies and analyses that suggest to researchers, students, practitioners, and policy-makers alike how best to ensure that high quality environmental research informs good environmental policy and practice. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The editors and authors are grateful to Lu Ann Pacenka, who formatted the text of the book. The editors also wish to express their appreciation to Bill Clark and Nancy Dickson of Harvard University, who commissioned and provided oversight for the preparation of the volume. Both editors and authors wish to express their appreciation to the David and Lucile Packard Foundation for providing funds to support the project. Finally, the editors are grateful for the continuing support of the George Perkins Marsh Institute at Clark University. Published with Science in Society

Author : P. Mick Kelly,William Neil Adger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Global environmental change
ISBN : OCLC:1221925853

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Assessing Vulnerability to Climate Change and Facilitating Adaptation by P. Mick Kelly,William Neil Adger Pdf

Author : Joel B. Smith,Saleemul Huq,Stephanie Lenhart,Luis José Mata,Ivana Nemesová,Sekou Touré
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401736534

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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change by Joel B. Smith,Saleemul Huq,Stephanie Lenhart,Luis José Mata,Ivana Nemesová,Sekou Touré Pdf

Martin Parry University College, London, UK The 13 country studies collected in this re Adaptations Assessment published by the port represent the first of what is likely to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change become a worldwide, country-by-country (Carter et al., 1994) as an agreed technical estimate of the likely impacts of, and appro set of scientific methods for climate impact priate adaptations to, greenhouse-gas-in assessment and has written its own guidance duced global climate change. document, Guidance for Vulnerability and Adaptation Assessment (U.S. CSP, 1994). Under the U.N. Framework Convention on The u.S. Country Studies Program devel Climate Change (UNFCCC), signatories oped the Guidance and other reviews of agreed to two near-term actions and one ma methodology into a nonspecialist set of jor subsequent one. The two near-term ac workbooks for use at the country level, tions are to make annual estimates of the which, backed up by advice from experi emissions and sinks of greenhouse gases, enced scientists from the United States and which are now being reported as part of a other countries, enabled local scientists to country-by-country inventory developed by conduct their own vulnerability and adapta the U.N. Environment Programme, the Or tion assessments.

Author : Christopher B. Field,Vicente R. Barros
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107058163

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Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Regional Aspects by Christopher B. Field,Vicente R. Barros Pdf

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences.

Author : Anthony G. Patt,Richard J. T. Klein,Dagmar Schröter,Anne Cristina De la Vega-Leinert
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781849770514

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Assessing Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change by Anthony G. Patt,Richard J. T. Klein,Dagmar Schröter,Anne Cristina De la Vega-Leinert Pdf

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782831714387

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Vulnerability assessments : a review of approaches by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,Béchir Chourou,Pál Dunay,Joern Birkmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1818 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642177767

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Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security by Hans Günter Brauch,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Czeslaw Mesjasz,John Grin,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,Béchir Chourou,Pál Dunay,Joern Birkmann Pdf

Coping with Global Environmental Change, Disasters and Security - Threats, Challenges, Vulnerabilities and Risks reviews conceptual debates and case studies focusing on disasters and security threats, challenges, vulnerabilities and risks in Europe, the Mediterranean and other regions. It discusses social science concepts of vulnerability and risks, global, regional and national security challenges, global warming, floods, desertification and drought as environmental security challenges, water and food security challenges and vulnerabilities, vulnerability mapping of environmental security challenges and risks, contributions of remote sensing to the recognition of security risks, mainstreaming early warning of conflicts and hazards and provides conceptual and policy conclusions.

Author : E. Carina H. Keskitalo
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849770798

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Climate Change and Globalization in the Arctic by E. Carina H. Keskitalo Pdf

Climate change vulnerability assessment is a rapidly developing field. However, despite the fact that such major trends as globalization and the changing characteristics of the political and economic governance systems are crucial in shaping a community's capacity to adapt to climate change, these trends are seldom included in assessments. This book addresses this shortcoming by developing a framework for qualitative vulnerability assessment in ?multiple impact? studies (of climate change and globalization) and applying this framework to several cases of renewable natural resource use. The book draws upon case studies of forestry and fishing - two of the largest sectors that rely on renewable natural resources - and reindeer herding in the European North. The study represents a bottom-up view, originating with the stakeholders themselves, of the degree to which stakeholders find adaptation to climate change possible and how they evaluate it in relation to their other concerns, notably economic and political ones.Moreover, the approach and research results include features that could be broadly generalized to other geographic areas or sectors characterized by renewable natural resource use.

Author : P. R. Shukla
Publisher : Universities Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 8173714711

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Climate Change and India by P. R. Shukla Pdf

Contributed articles on climate change.