Leading the UK Adaptation Agenda: A Landscape of Stakeholders and Networked Organizations for Adaptation to Climate Change

2011 ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Boyd ◽  
Roger Street ◽  
Megan Gawith ◽  
Kate Lonsdale ◽  
Laurie Newton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Networked Organizations

scholarly journals Adaptation to climate change in the insurance sector: examples from the UK, Germany and the Netherlands

2013 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 315-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Carina H. Keskitalo ◽  
Gregor Vulturius ◽  
Peter Scholten
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Insurance Sector ◽  
The Uk

scholarly journals Adapting Cultural Heritage to Climate Change Risks: Perspectives of Cultural Heritage Experts in Europe

Geosciences ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Sesana ◽  
Alexandre Gagnon ◽  
Chiara Bertolin ◽  
John Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Participatory Workshop ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
The Uk

Changes in rainfall patterns, humidity, and temperature, as well as greater exposure to severe weather events, has led to the need for adapting cultural heritage to climate change. However, there is limited research accomplished to date on the process of adaptation of cultural heritage to climate change. This paper examines the perceptions of experts involved in the management and preservation of cultural heritage on adaptation to climate change risks. For this purpose, semi-structured interviews were conducted with experts from the UK, Italy, and Norway as well as a participatory workshop with stakeholders. The results indicate that the majority of interviewees believe that adaptation of cultural heritage to climate change is possible. Opportunities for, barriers to, and requirements for adapting cultural heritage to climate change, as perceived by the interviewees, provided a better understanding of what needs to be provided and prioritized for adaptation to take place and in its strategic planning. Knowledge of management methodologies incorporating climate change impacts by the interviewees together with best practice examples in adapting cultural heritage to climate change are also reported. Finally, the interviewees identified the determinant factors for the implementation of climate change adaptation. This paper highlights the need for more research on this topic and the identification and dissemination of practical solutions and tools for the incorporation of climate change adaptation in the preservation and management of cultural heritage.

Efficient adaptation to climate change: Who adapts, how and when?

2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 ◽  
pp. 239-239
Author(s):  
D Moran ◽  
E Wall ◽  
A Wreford
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Emissions Reduction ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Damage Cost ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Global Action ◽  
The Uk

Climate change is characterised by uncertainty. But available economic assessments (e.g. Stern 2006) suggest that delaying action on emissions will lead to increasing global damage cost, with greatest incidence in poorer and vulnerable communities and sectors. There are thus efficiency and equity arguments for early coordinated global action on emissions reduction. In the UK the Climate Change Committee has been established to develop a route map for the “decarbonisation” of growth in all sectors including agriculture.

Integrating Climate and Socioeconomic Pathways to Calculate the Future Cost of Catastrophes

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alastair Clarke ◽  
Alexander Koch ◽  
Eric Robinson ◽  
Michelle Cipullo ◽  
Shane Latchman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Population Projections ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
Average Annual Loss ◽  
The Future ◽  
Urban Scaling ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Cost

<p>The cost of future catastrophes will depend on changes to the hazard, exposure and vulnerability. Previous work has shown how climate change could affect the financial losses from damaged buildings by altering the frequency, severity and other characteristics of the hazard, but has not shown how socioeconomic trends could affect losses by altering the total number, spatial distribution and vulnerability of buildings.</p><p>We extend and apply urban scaling theory to model the spatiotemporal evolution of exposure using population projections that are consistent with Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs). The exposure sets are integrated with hazard catalogues that are consistent with Representative Concentration Pathways to give five views of UK windstorm risk for the year 2100.</p><p>SSPs describe five plausible futures where socioeconomic trends have made mitigation of, or adaptation to, climate change harder or easier. For example, one SSP describes a global panacea of co-operative, sustainable development while another describes a fragmented, under-developed world heavily-reliant on fossil fuels. AIR’s present-day exposure set, representative of all insurable properties in the UK, is perturbed by the SSPs to create an ensemble of plausible exposure sets for the year 2100. This ensemble is run through the AIR Extratropical Cyclone model for Europe with four stochastic event-based catalogues that represent the present hazard and three plausible future hazards posed by 1.5°C, 3°C and 4.5°C increases in global temperature.</p><p>Previous work found that global warming of 1.5°C to 4.5°C would increase the Average Annual Loss (AAL) from UK windstorms by 11% to 25%. We find that changes in exposure alone, dictated by the SSPs, lead to a wider range of changes in AAL. Urbanisation occurs under all SSPs resulting in exposure concentrating in cities and regional-level variation in AAL. Changes in AAL will further widen when integrated with the future hazard catalogues.</p><p>The results can help governments and public bodies to decide on a strategy for future urban and rural development, and how much to invest in protective measures against catastrophes. The framework can be extended to other perils in other countries adapting to climate change.</p>

scholarly journals Farmer flexibility concerning future rotation planning is affected by the framing of climate predictions.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda S. Bane ◽  
Michael J. O. Pocock ◽  
Caroline Gibert ◽  
Matthieu Forster ◽  
Geoffroy Oudoire ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Environmental Benefits ◽  
The South ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
The Uk

Abstract Arable crops are typically grown in annual rotations. Diverse rotations can support ecosystem services, provide economic resilience and support adaptation to climate change. Our aim was to assess farmers' attitudes to planning and diversifying crop rotations, focusing on their responses in the face of contrasting climate viewpoints. We interviewed 75 farmers from four regions along a latitudinal gradient from the south of the UK to the south of France. We used a semi-structured questionnaire with face-to-face interviews and asked farmers to respond to two narrative viewpoints of climate change impacts: one viewpoint focused on opportunities, the other on constraints. We found in all four regions that farmers' use rotations, and the crops within rotations, to achieve their main objectives of financial stability and improved soil health. Most farmers (79-100% depending on region) said they had experienced climate change, and many (54-83%) had already implemented changes in their farming practices. We did not find a difference in these results based on latitude. However, farmers' self-reported outlook was mostly optimistic in southern UK and become progressively more pessimistic further south. Overall, most farmers predicted that they would diversify and lengthen rotations in response to climate change. However, when presented with a viewpoint of climate change impacts focusing on opportunities, more farmers were likely to diversify and lengthen, and fewer were likely to shorten rotations, compared to a viewpoint presenting constraints from these impacts. Crucially, here we show that the presentation of climate change affects the ways in which farmers predict how they will respond to climate change. Diversified rotations would align with multiple other economic and environmental benefits. Therefore, it is essential to consider the way in which climate change impacts are communicated, and the effect on farmers' behavior, when designing measures to support environmentally-sustainable adaptation to climate change.

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