From peril to promise? Local mitigation and adaptation policy decisions after extreme weather

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Leanne Giordono ◽  
Alexander Gard-Murray ◽  
Hilary Boudet
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Adaptation Policy ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation

scholarly journals Local adaptation policy responses to extreme weather events

2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leanne Giordono ◽  
Hilary Boudet ◽  
Alexander Gard-Murray
Keyword(s):  
Local Adaptation ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Adaptation Policy ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Weather Events

Modelling Historical Adaptation Rates to Inform Future Adaptation Pathways

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moritz Schwarz ◽  
Felix Pretis
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Structural Breaks ◽  
Climate Impact ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Adaptation Policy ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Empirical Modelling ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Historical Adaptation

<p>Quantifying the climate impacts onto economic outcomes is crucial to inform mitigation and adaptation policy decisions in the context of anthropogenic climate change. Existing macro-level economic impact projections are often derived using calibrated Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) or empirically-estimated econometric models. Both approaches, however, rarely consider how such impacts would change under macro-level adaptation interventions. Here, we present approaches to econometrically test climate impact estimates for their historical stability to approximate empirical macro-adaptation rates. By modelling deterministic trends and structural breaks as well as socio-economic drivers of adaptation, our approach could provide the basis for a new set of macro-economic impact projections that control for adaptation measures. Ultimately, adaptation-explicit impact projections could be used to inform both mitigation and adaptation decisions and further allow benchmarking of non-empirical modelling approaches.</p>

scholarly journals Endless November? Citizen Beliefs Concerning Wood As A Construction Material Under Extreme Weather Events

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anni Vehola ◽  
Elias Hurmekoski ◽  
Katja Lähtinen ◽  
Enni Ruokamo ◽  
Anders Roos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Construction Material ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Wood Construction ◽  
Weather Events

Abstract Climate change places great pressure on the construction sector to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions and to create solutions that perform well in changing weather conditions. In the urbanizing world, wood construction has been identified as one of the opportunities for mitigating these emissions. Our study explores citizen opinions on wood usage as a building material under expected mitigation and adaptation measures aimed at a changing climate and extreme weather events. The data are founded on an internet-based survey material collected from a consumer panel from Finland and Sweden during May–June 2021, with a total of 2015 responses. By employing exploratory factor analysis, we identified similar belief structures for the two countries, consisting of both positive and negative views on wood construction. In linear regressions for predicting these opinions, the perceived seriousness of climate change was found to increase positive views on wood construction but was insignificant for negative views. Both in Finland and Sweden, higher familiarity with wooden multistory construction was found to connect with more positive opinions on the potential of wood in building, e.g., due to carbon storage properties and material attributes. Our findings underline the potential of wood material use as one avenue of climate change adaptation in the built environment. Future research should study how citizens’ concerns for extreme weather events affect their future material preferences in their everyday living environments, also beyond the Nordic region.

scholarly journals Experience of extreme weather affects climate change mitigation and adaptation responses

2016 ◽  
Vol 140 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Demski ◽  
Stuart Capstick ◽  
Nick Pidgeon ◽  
Robert Gennaro Sposato ◽  
Alexa Spence
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Change Mitigation

Capitalising upon Globalisation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Webber
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Development ◽  
Macroeconomic Policy ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Gordon Brown ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
At Home

Having mapped out in the previous chapter, New Labour’s often contradictory and even ‘politically-convenient’ understanding of globalisation, chapter 3 offers analysis of three key areas of domestic policy that Gordon Brown would later transpose to the realm of international development: (i) macroeconomic policy, (ii) business, and (iii) welfare. Since, according to Brown at least, globalisation had resulted in a blurring of the previously distinct spheres of domestic and foreign policy, it made sense for those strategies and policy decisions designed for consumption at home to be transposed abroad. The focus of this chapter is the design of these three areas of domestic policy; the unmistakeable imprint of Brown in these areas and their place in building of New Labour’s political economy. Strikingly, Brown’s hand in these policies and the themes that underpinned them would again reappear in the international development policies explored in much greater detail later in the book.

Teresa Mannion and the Emergence of Extreme Weather Culture in Ireland

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Diane Negra
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Viral Video ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Strong Winds ◽  
Risk Coverage

In this article I consider how registers of weather media carry/convey cultural information, specifically how texts about extreme weather articulate with investment in a supposed post-recession restored normality marked by the Irish government's commitment to deregulated transnational capitalism. I maintain that, in a process of cross-cultural remediation, sensationalist codes of US weather media that discursively manage awareness of systemic climate problems are just starting to infiltrate the Irish broadcasting environment. In early December 2015 RTÉ’s Teresa Mannion covered a strong gale, Storm Desmond, amidst inclement conditions in Salthill, Co Galway. Modelling the kind of ‘body at risk’ coverage consummately performed by US Weather Channel personnel, Mannion could barely speak over the lashing rain and strong winds in a dramatic broadcast that quickly became a viral video. This article analyses the fascination with Mannion's piece and its memetic, and attends to the nature of the pleasure taken in her on-camera discomfiture and the breach of gendered territory committed by Mannion at a time when national popular culture in Ireland is under increased obligation to identify and explain climate change-related extreme weather.

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