Validation and Application of a Perception of Community Adaptive Capacity to Coastal Hazards Measure DOI
Daniel Pilgreen, Gerard T. Kyle, Ashley D. Ross

et al.

Environment and Behavior, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Jan. 7, 2025

Evaluating adaptive capacities that support the resilience of at-risk communities can be from an objective (top-down) approach or a subjective (bottom-up) approach. While both approaches are valuable, there remains need for quantitative measures complement by grounding understanding in community members’ perceptions and experiences. To address this need, 12-item self-report assessment scale capacity to coastal hazards was developed validated using data collected two samples Texas Gulf Coast residents. Findings psychometric validity reliability measure indicate meaningfully segmented measure. The perception greater capacity, real, otherwise, may ameliorate natural hazard concerns inflate beliefs about preparedness. As such, important companions offer opportunities identify mismatches between top-down building perceptions.

Language: Английский

The global costs of extreme weather that are attributable to climate change DOI Creative Commons

Rebecca Newman,

Ilan Noy

Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 14(1)

Published: Sept. 29, 2023

Extreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs. Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme events, allows us quantify climate change-induced component these We collect data from all available EEA studies, combine with on socio-economic costs and extrapolate for missing arrive at an estimate global attributable change in last twenty years. find US[Formula: see text] 143 billion per year is climatic change. The majority (63%), this due human loss life. Our results suggest frequently cited estimates economic arrived by using Integrated Assessment Models may be substantially underestimated.

Language: Английский

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Impacts of climate change on the fate of contaminants through extreme weather events DOI Creative Commons
Shiv Bolan, Lokesh P. Padhye, Tahereh Jasemizad

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The Science of The Total Environment, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 909, P. 168388 - 168388

Published: Nov. 11, 2023

The direct impacts of climate change involve a multitude phenomena, including rising sea levels, intensified severe weather events such as droughts and flooding, increased temperatures leading to wildfires, unpredictable fluctuations in rainfall. This comprehensive review intends examine firstly the probable consequences on extreme drought, flood wildfire. subsequently examines release transformation contaminants terrestrial, aquatic, atmospheric environments response driven by change. While drought influence dynamics inorganic organic terrestrial aquatic environments, thereby influencing their mobility transport, wildfire results spread atmosphere. There is nascent awareness change's change-induced environmental scientific community decision-making processes. remediation industry, particular, lags behind adopting adaptive measures for managing contaminated affected events. However, recognizing need assessment represents pivotal first step towards fostering more practices management environments. We highlight urgency collaboration between chemists experts, emphasizing importance jointly assessing fate rigorous action augment risk strategies safeguard health our environment.

Language: Английский

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Can financial and economic means accelerate renewable energy growth in the climate change era? The case of China DOI
Farhad Taghizadeh–Hesary, Kangyin Dong, Congyu Zhao

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Economic Analysis and Policy, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 78, P. 730 - 743

Published: April 19, 2023

Language: Английский

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Chapter 2 : Climate Trends. Fifth National Climate Assessment DOI
Kate Marvel, Wenying Su, Roberto Delgado

et al.

Published: Jan. 1, 2023

Language: Английский

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Resilience patterns of human mobility in response to extreme urban floods DOI Creative Commons
Junqing Tang,

Pengjun Zhao,

Zhaoya Gong

et al.

National Science Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 10(8)

Published: April 11, 2023

ABSTRACT Large-scale disasters can disproportionately impact different population groups, causing prominent disparity and inequality, especially for the vulnerable marginalized. Here, we investigate resilience of human mobility under disturbance unprecedented ‘720’ Zhengzhou flood in China 2021 using records 1.32 billion mobile phone signaling generated by 4.35 million people. We find that although pluvial floods trigger reductions, overall structural dynamics networks remain relatively stable. also low levels female, adolescent older adult groups are mainly due to their insufficient capabilities maintain business-as-usual travel frequency during flood. Most importantly, reveal three types counter-intuitive, yet widely existing, patterns (namely, ‘reverse bathtub’, ‘ever-increasing’ ‘ever-decreasing’ patterns), demonstrate a universal mechanism disaster-avoidance response further corroborating those abnormal not associated with people’s gender or age. In view common association between behaviors travelers’ socio-demographic characteristics, our findings provide caveat scholars when disclosing disparities flood-induced emergencies.

Language: Английский

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Event attribution is not ready for a major role in loss and damage DOI
Andrew D. King, Michael Grose, Joyce Kimutai

et al.

Nature Climate Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(5), P. 415 - 417

Published: April 17, 2023

Language: Английский

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Integrating social vulnerability into high-resolution global flood risk mapping DOI Creative Commons
Sean Fox, Felix Agyemang, Laurence Hawker

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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: April 11, 2024

High-resolution global flood risk maps are increasingly used to inform disaster planning and response, particularly in lower income countries with limited data or capacity. However, current approaches do not adequately account for spatial variation social vulnerability, which is a key determinant of outcomes exposed populations. Here we integrate annual average exceedance probability estimates from high-resolution fluvial model gridded population poverty create vulnerability-adjusted index flooding (VARI Flood) at 90-meter resolution. The provides relative within between changes how understand the geography by identifying 'hotspots' characterised high density levels vulnerability. This approach, emphasises risks human well-being, could be as complement traditional asset-centred approaches.

Language: Английский

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Urban form and structure explain variability in spatial inequality of property flood risk among US counties DOI Creative Commons
Junwei Ma, Ali Mostafavi

Communications Earth & Environment, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 5(1)

Published: April 1, 2024

Abstract Understanding the relationship between urban form and structure spatial inequality of property flood risk has been a longstanding challenge in planning emergency management. Here we explore eight features to explain variability among 2567 US counties. Using datasets related human mobility facility distribution, identify notable variation risk, particularly coastline metropolitan The results reveal variations can be explained based on principal components development density, economic activity, centrality segregation. classification regression tree model further demonstrates how these interact pathways that risk. findings underscore critical role mitigating inequality, offering valuable insights for crafting integrated strategies as urbanization progresses.

Language: Английский

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Habitability of low-lying socio-ecological systems under a changing climate DOI Creative Commons
Tom Spencer, Alexandre Magnan, Simon D. Donner

et al.

Climatic Change, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 177(1)

Published: Jan. 1, 2024

Abstract Climate change will push the planet worryingly close to its boundaries, across all latitudes and levels of development. One question therefore is extent which climate does (and will) severely affect societies’ livelihoods, health, well-being, cultures. This paper discusses “severe risks” concept developed under Working Group II’s contribution Fifth Sixth Assessment Reports Intergovernmental Panel on Change (IPCC, AR5, AR6). Focusing low-lying coastal socio-ecological systems (LCS) acknowledging that attempts define “severe” risk have been problematic at level global syntheses, we argue for a more place- people-based framing relating “habitability changing climate.” We summarize habitability in terms five pillars: land, freshwater, food, settlement infrastructure, economic subsistence activities; acknowledge social cultural factors (including perceptions, values, governance arrangements, human agency, power structures) as critical underlying rather than separate pillars. further develop examine future health three “hotspot” archetypes (arctic coasts, atoll islands, densely populated urban areas). Building IPCC AR6 severe risks, discuss key parameters describing risks LCS: point irreversibility changes, physical thresholds , cascading effects various dimensions. also highlight variability conditions both between within each them. Further work should consist refining case study find right balance capturing context-specificities through real-world local studies commonalities derived from generic archetypes. In addition, there need identify appropriate methods assess thus habitability.

Language: Английский

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An update on the influence of natural climate variability and anthropogenic climate change on tropical cyclones DOI Creative Commons
Suzana J. Camargo, Hiroyuki Murakami, Nadia Bloemendaal

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Tropical Cyclone Research and Review, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(3), P. 216 - 239

Published: Sept. 1, 2023

A substantial number of studies have been published since the Ninth International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones (IWTC-9) in 2018, improving our understanding effect climate change tropical cyclones (TCs) and associated hazards risks. These reinforced robustness increases TC intensity risks due to anthropogenic change. New modeling observational suggested potential influence forcings, including greenhouse gases aerosols, global regional activity at decadal century time scales. However, there are still uncertainties owing model uncertainty simulating historical variability Atlantic, limitations observed records. The projected future TCs has become more uncertain IWTC-9 frequency by a few models. new paradigm, seeds, proposed, is currently debate whether seeds can help explain physical mechanism behind changes frequency. also highlighted importance large-scale environmental fields activity, such as snow cover air-sea interactions. Future projections translation speed medicanes additional focus topics report. Recommendations research proposed relevant remaining scientific questions assisting policymakers.

Language: Английский

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