... require political and public awareness andeconomic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment. In particular – and of no lesssignificance than climate change – natural and human-made ... making, and (2) the establishment of ‘boundary organizations’ and institutional changes that increase the transfer of knowledge between not only science and policy, but also science, policy and practice. ... theenvironment, the economy and society as a whole.These involve cleavages between both the advocates and antagonists of ‘greening’ economicpolicy in specificnations and between nations, in particular...
... renewal and transformation; and (3) and understandingof change and uncertainty as inherent insocial-ecological systems.This statement strongly reflects the convergentaspects of CCA and DRR. ... CCA and DRR merged with insurance schemes could playan important role when discussing financial vul-nerability and managing risks for governments and communities.Understanding resilience and ... al. (2003) attri-bute coping capacity and adaptive capacity asseparate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together. To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalentto...
... Geneva,Switzerland.ISDR, 2009. Global Assessment Report on Disaster RiskReduction: Risk and Poverty in a Changing Climate.United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.Janssen, M. A. and Anderies, J. ... scholars, and increase collaboration betweenthe young and the seasoned within academicinstitutions, development and relief organiz-ations and government. We see this path,embedded in adaptive and ... Olsson, P., Pritchard, L. and Young, O., 2006.Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance and information in a multilevel world. Ecology and Society, 11(2). 8.Coleman, F. C. and Williams, S. L.,...
... variability in landfalls.3.2. Landfall rates and proportionTable 2 shows for three different periods – 1900 –2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequencyof annual landfalls in the first and second ... of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfall-ing storms and damage (e.g. Elsner and Jagger,2006; Jagger et al., 2008). Elsner and Jagger(2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... thenumber of storms making landfall (cf. Elsner and Bossack, 2001; Elsner et al., 2003; Nzerem et al.,2008; Smith, 2008) and also in the intensity ofstorms at landfall (Landsea, 2005). This meansthat...
... ChangeSAMUEL FANKHAUSER1,*, DAVID KENNEDY2 AND JIM SKEA31Grantham Research Institute and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, London School of Economics,Houghton Street, London WC2A ... hurricanelandfalls and their impacts will be those whobest match their decisions to what can and cannot be known about the uncertain future. And such wisdom starts with understanding thehistorical record and ... doi:10.1038/nature04477.Landsea, C. W., 2007. Counting Atlantic TropicalCyclones back to 1900. EOS, 88. 197 and 202.Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A. and Muir-Wood, R., 2007.Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall...
... Climate change and the frequency and severity of natural disastersIn addition to socio -economic developments,climate change may increase the intensity and severity of weather extremes and contribute ... under climate and socio -economic change2.1. Impact of socio -economic developmentson natural catastrophe damageHuman-induced developments are a major deter-minant of the occurrence and consequences ... consistency with EU-wide energy and climate change policy, (2) the need to be con-sistent with the 2050 objective and make an ade-quate early contribution to the 2050 target; and (3) the need for budgets...
... namely low economic growth (RC) and high growth (GE) and corresponding changes inthe ‘portfolio of properties at risk’ module ofFigure 2 were based on a land use model of the Neth-erlands (Janssen ... Assessment of future flood risk in the Nether-lands under a range of climate change and socio -economic scenariosSource: Aerts et al. (2008a)214 Botzen and van den BerghENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS3.2.2. ... system that enhancethis system’s resistance to disasters and itscapacity to respond to, and cushion impacts of,a disaster (Handmer and Dovers, 1996; Bocˇkar-jova, 2007). Bocˇkarjova (2007)...
... disasters.Disaster Prevention and Manage-ment,13(4).307–314.Rose, A., 2004b. Economic principles, issues, and research priorities in hazard loss estimation. Model-ling Spatial andEconomic Impacts of ... warming(Weingart et al., 2000; Andreadis and Smith, 2007).We are entering a period when carefulinterpretation and communication of the economic, political and social dimensions ofclimate ... transnational and com-pounded crises such as terrorism (Norris et al.,2003; Papacharissi and de Fatima Oliveira,2008); pandemics (Buus and Olsson, 2006; Shihet al., 2008; Ungar, 2008) and climate...
... wetlands which perform essentialhydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of theBasin wetlands ... (The Australian,3 September 2008), and ‘Water dries up life on theland – Randall Crozier stands in the barrenpaddock, frowning at the drought-bleacheddesert sand’ (The Australian, 13 September ... touches upon broad policy areas invol-ving water management and climate change, policy areas that are highly politicized in the Aus-tralian context, and as such involve many twists and turns in which...