Implementing Innovation: Fostering Enduring Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Governance ppt

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.1

... weighing the full gamut of risks,costs and beneﬁts of handling these hazards using a multi-criteria and systems approach towards the setting ofpolicy priorities and resource sharing. In addition ... in a `climate change induced' compoundedcrisis: Facing tragic choices in the Murray-Darling BasinEVA-KARIN OLSSONVOLUME 8 ISSUE 3 2009SPECIAL ISSUESpecial issue: Climate change as environmental ... change and of globalwarming in particular.Indeed, since the Industrial Revolution the mean sur-face temperature of Earth has increased by an averageof 28C with most of this change occurring...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.2

... Action for a Safer World led to a change in thinking about disaster mitigation(Schipper and Pelling, 2006). Movement in think-ing and practice continued during the UnitedNations World Conference ... Uncertainty and iterative risk managementOne of the greatest obstructions in understanding and combating climate change is the multitude ofuncertainty surrounding climate change issues.From indentifying ... needto emphasize knowledge, learning and thesocial sources of adaptability, renewal and transformation; and (3) and understandingof change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems.This...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.3

... and still retain the original func-tion of the organization. By enhancing the under-standing of how these shadow systems and otherinstitutional factors promote resilience, insti-tutions and ... learning by doing, (2) integratingknowledge systems, (3) increasing collaboration and equity among community, regional and national levels, and (4) creating greater ﬂexibility in management ... growth in underlying determi-nants of adaptive capacity. These range from gov-ernance issues, to recognizing and using humansocial capital, to understanding causal links and spreading risk...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.4

... damageHurricanes in basinLandfallinghurricanesDamageNamed storms in basin0.87 0.46 0.27Hurricanes in basin* 0.52 0.42Intensehurricanes in basin* 0.58 0.45Landfallinghurricanes* * ... lines of argument miss an impor-tant factor in understanding the differential pat-terns seen in basin and landfall statistics, and that is the spatial distribution of trends in theNATL basin ... all landfalling hurricanes have been identiﬁedsince 1900 (cf. Elsner and Jagger, 2006).2.1. Landfall and damage recordsDecision makers in a range of settings have con-siderable interest in...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1.5

... when interpretingfar more plausible relationships. Two simpledynamics associated with interpreting predictionshelp to explain why fundamental uncertainties in hurricane landfalls will inevitably ... economic solutions of doing so areemerging, but maintaining a long-term, globalcommitment is difﬁcult institutionally in nationalsystems geared toward the short and medium term. In November 2008 ... Hedging and the mode ofexpression in weather forecasts. Bulletin of the Amer-ican Meteorological Society, 59. 371–373.Nzerem, K., Jewson, S. and Laepple, K., 2008. Change- point detection in...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.1

... The Netherlands Natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last few decades, causing considerable economic damage and loss of life. A combination of climate and socio-economic ... delayed and they allow for theobjective and transparent monitoring of perform-ance. The budgets also increase policy certainty and send a strong signal to industry, encouragingbusiness to ... tackleairline emissions and bring international avia-tion and shipping into the carbon budgetingsystem. The role of aviation will be the subjectof an aviation review carried out in 2009.Finally, the...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.2

... climate and socio-economic change that will in uence future natural disasterManaging natural disaster risks 217 ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDSlosses results in inherently uncertain changes in risks. ... et al., 2005; 2006). In particular, useof buildings andinterior ﬁttingadapted toﬂoodingreduced damage to buildings by 46 and 53 per cent, and damage to contents by 48 and 53 per cent,respectively ... alsoaccelerate the rebuilding of damaged property and prevent bankruptcy of individual households and ﬁrms, thereby adding to continuity ofbusiness operations and stimulating rebuildingof the capital...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.3

... A.,Grace, M. F., Klein, R. W. and Pauly, M. V., 2008.Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Cata-strophes: Insuring, Mitigating and Financing Recoveryfrom Natural Disasters in the United States. ... characteristics of insurance in managing disaster risk and fostering adap-tation are preserved.6. ConclusionsThe recent upswing in natural disaster occurrence and resulting damage illustrates ... to add to the growing literatureby examining responsibility framing in connectionwith the media coverage of the prevailing crisis in the Murray–Darling Basin in Australia during2008, as an example...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.4

... biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems. A number of theBasin wetlands are recognized under the Conven-tion on Wetlands of International ... 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 the states depending ... 2008).As in framing the character of the crisis, scien-tists played an important role in framing causes.Interesting to note in relation to the politicalframing contest over the link with climatechange...

Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 2.5

... signiﬁcantly gain by considering not onlypolitical actors’ framing of a situation but alsothose other actor groups involved in framing acrisis. Such an approach will provide a richerunderstanding of ... previous policies in relatedareas) and internal media factors (other actors’framing of the issue as it plays out in themedia). Actors are in general in control of theﬁrst one (in which they are ... the coupling mechanism betweena concrete crisis and climate change that gives‘climate change induced’ compounded crisescertain characteristics (see also Olsson and Paglia, 2008). In this case,...

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