Risk from responses to a changing climate
Effectively responding to intensifying climate change hazards requires identifying risks arising from each response, as well as risks arising from the dynamic interactions between responses. Using examples of managed retreat and solar geoengineering, we illustrate the importance of understanding res...
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| author | Talbot M. Andrews Nicholas P. Simpson Katharine J. Mach Christopher H. Trisos |
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| description | Effectively responding to intensifying climate change hazards requires identifying risks arising from each response, as well as risks arising from the dynamic interactions between responses. Using examples of managed retreat and solar geoengineering, we illustrate the importance of understanding response as a determinant of climate change risk. We highlight a continuum of severity of response risks, both at the site of deployment and across temporally and geographically distant contexts. While responses might moderate a specific hazard, due to the complexity of climate change risk they may be ineffective at reducing net climate-related risk for any given actor or system. We also show how some responses to climate change affect vulnerability, exposure, and other responses to climate change independent of the targeted hazard and can lead to maladaptation. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of integrating climate change responses together with other determinants of risk to better inform climate risk management and guide research on the feasibility of individual response options. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bb56d19baf6c43a39b172e6c9608a69a2023-02-28T04:08:44ZengElsevierClimate Risk Management2212-09632023-01-0139100487Risk from responses to a changing climateTalbot M. Andrews0Nicholas P. Simpson1Katharine J. Mach2Christopher H. Trisos3Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USAAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Corresponding author at: 6th Floor, Geological Sciences Building, Upper Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa.Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, and Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy, University of Miami, Miami, FL, USADepartment of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaEffectively responding to intensifying climate change hazards requires identifying risks arising from each response, as well as risks arising from the dynamic interactions between responses. Using examples of managed retreat and solar geoengineering, we illustrate the importance of understanding response as a determinant of climate change risk. We highlight a continuum of severity of response risks, both at the site of deployment and across temporally and geographically distant contexts. While responses might moderate a specific hazard, due to the complexity of climate change risk they may be ineffective at reducing net climate-related risk for any given actor or system. We also show how some responses to climate change affect vulnerability, exposure, and other responses to climate change independent of the targeted hazard and can lead to maladaptation. We conclude by emphasizing the importance of integrating climate change responses together with other determinants of risk to better inform climate risk management and guide research on the feasibility of individual response options.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221209632300013XClimate changeResponse riskManaged retreatSolar geoengineeringCascading riskCompound risk |
| spellingShingle | Talbot M. Andrews Nicholas P. Simpson Katharine J. Mach Christopher H. Trisos Risk from responses to a changing climate Climate Risk Management Climate change Response risk Managed retreat Solar geoengineering Cascading risk Compound risk |
| title | Risk from responses to a changing climate |
| title_full | Risk from responses to a changing climate |
| title_fullStr | Risk from responses to a changing climate |
| title_full_unstemmed | Risk from responses to a changing climate |
| title_short | Risk from responses to a changing climate |
| title_sort | risk from responses to a changing climate |
| topic | Climate change Response risk Managed retreat Solar geoengineering Cascading risk Compound risk |
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