Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake
Summary: This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging conditions of compound climate events. Across 39 countries, 45 response types to compound hazards display anticip...
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| author | Nicholas P. Simpson Portia Adade Williams Katharine J. Mach Lea Berrang-Ford Robbert Biesbroek Marjolijn Haasnoot Alcade C. Segnon Donovan Campbell Justice Issah Musah-Surugu Elphin Tom Joe Abraham Marshall Nunbogu Salma Sabour Andreas L.S. Meyer Talbot M. Andrews Chandni Singh A.R. Siders Judy Lawrence Maarten van Aalst Christopher H. Trisos |
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| description | Summary: This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging conditions of compound climate events. Across 39 countries, 45 response types to compound hazards display anticipatory (9%), reactive (33%), and maladaptive (41%) characteristics, as well as hard (18%) and soft (68%) limits to adaptation. Low income, food insecurity, and access to institutional resources and finance are the most prominent of 23 vulnerabilities observed to negatively affect responses. Risk for food security, health, livelihoods, and economic outputs are commonly associated risks driving responses. Narrow geographical and sectoral foci of the literature highlight important conceptual, sectoral, and geographic areas for future research to better understand the way responses shape risk. When responses are integrated within climate risk assessment and management, there is greater potential to advance the urgency of response and safeguards for the most vulnerable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d39e9d84ac5a4d119ae439b7c2755c252023-02-19T04:26:34ZengElsevieriScience2589-00422023-02-01262105926Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktakeNicholas P. Simpson0Portia Adade Williams1Katharine J. Mach2Lea Berrang-Ford3Robbert Biesbroek4Marjolijn Haasnoot5Alcade C. Segnon6Donovan Campbell7Justice Issah Musah-Surugu8Elphin Tom Joe9Abraham Marshall Nunbogu10Salma Sabour11Andreas L.S. Meyer12Talbot M. Andrews13Chandni Singh14A.R. Siders15Judy Lawrence16Maarten van Aalst17Christopher H. Trisos18African Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Corresponding authorCSIR-Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Accra, Ghana; Corresponding authorDepartment 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, USAPriestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UKWageningen University, Wageningen, the NetherlandsDeltares, Delft, the Netherlands, Department of Physical Geography, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the NetherlandsAlliance of Bioversity International and International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), Dakar, Senegal, Faculty of Agronomic Sciences, University of Abomey-Calavi, Cotonou, BeninThe University of West Indies, Mona, JamaicaUnited Nations University, Bonn, Germany; Department of Public Administration and Health Service Management, University of Ghana, Legon, GhanaEconomics Center, World Resources Institute, New Delhi, IndiaDepartment of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, CanadaFaculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, UKAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaDepartment of Political Science, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USASchool of Environment and Sustainability, Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, IndiaDisaster Research Center, Climate Change Science and Policy Hub, Biden School of Public Policy, Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences; University of Delaware; Newark, DE, USAClimate Change Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New ZealandFaculty of Geo-information Science and Earth Observation, University of Twente, Twente, the Netherlands; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre, The Hague, The NetherlandsAfrican Climate and Development Initiative, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa; Centre for Statistics in Ecology, Environment and Conservation, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaSummary: This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging conditions of compound climate events. Across 39 countries, 45 response types to compound hazards display anticipatory (9%), reactive (33%), and maladaptive (41%) characteristics, as well as hard (18%) and soft (68%) limits to adaptation. Low income, food insecurity, and access to institutional resources and finance are the most prominent of 23 vulnerabilities observed to negatively affect responses. Risk for food security, health, livelihoods, and economic outputs are commonly associated risks driving responses. Narrow geographical and sectoral foci of the literature highlight important conceptual, sectoral, and geographic areas for future research to better understand the way responses shape risk. When responses are integrated within climate risk assessment and management, there is greater potential to advance the urgency of response and safeguards for the most vulnerable.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223000032Earth sciencesClimatologySafety engineeringBusinessDecision science |
| spellingShingle | Nicholas P. Simpson Portia Adade Williams Katharine J. Mach Lea Berrang-Ford Robbert Biesbroek Marjolijn Haasnoot Alcade C. Segnon Donovan Campbell Justice Issah Musah-Surugu Elphin Tom Joe Abraham Marshall Nunbogu Salma Sabour Andreas L.S. Meyer Talbot M. Andrews Chandni Singh A.R. Siders Judy Lawrence Maarten van Aalst Christopher H. Trisos Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake iScience Earth sciences Climatology Safety engineering Business Decision science |
| title | Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake |
| title_full | Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake |
| title_fullStr | Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake |
| title_full_unstemmed | Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake |
| title_short | Adaptation to compound climate risks: A systematic global stocktake |
| title_sort | adaptation to compound climate risks a systematic global stocktake |
| topic | Earth sciences Climatology Safety engineering Business Decision science |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004223000032 |
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