Federal adaptation and mitigation programs supporting Community investment in electricity resilience to extreme weather

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (8) ◽  
pp. 106825
Author(s):  
Craig D. Zamuda ◽  
Anne Ressler
Keyword(s):  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation ◽  
Community Investment

scholarly journals Southeast Regional Climate Hub Assessment of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven McNulty ◽  
Sarah Wiener ◽  
Emrys Treasure ◽  
Jennifer Moore Myers ◽  
Hamid Farahani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Regional Climate ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Climate Change Vulnerability ◽  
Priority Needs ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Climate-related variability in rainfall, temperature, and extreme weather (e.g., drought, flood, unseasonal frost) pose significant challenges to working land (i.e., range, forest, and agricultural) managers across the southeastern United States. This document outlines the type of risks that southeastern agriculture and forestry currently face and, in some cases, options to address these risks. Finally, this document looks forward to providing direction on the priority needs of Southeast working land managers and an outline of how the USDA Southeast Climate Hub will address those needs.

scholarly journals Perception of Climate Change Risk and Adaptation in the Czech Republic

Climate ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krkoška Lorencová ◽  
Loučková ◽  
Vačkářů
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Extreme Weather ◽  
Previous Experience ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Change Perception ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Climate Change Perception ◽  
Adaptation And Mitigation

Public perception of climate change is an important element that affects attitudes towards adaptation and mitigation. Understanding the general public’s perception of the issue can assist decision-makers, though the climate change perception is affected by multiple factors. This study examines the main sociodemographic factors, including gender, and the role of previous personal experience with extreme weather events on climate change perception and engagement in individual adaptation and mitigation actions among the general population in the Czech Republic. Based on statistical analysis, gender, age and previous experience with extreme weather events have been found to play a significant role in the climate change beliefs of individuals and in the perception of the cause of the changing climate. The analysis revealed that respondents with previous experience with extreme weather events were significantly more likely to implement adaptation and mitigation actions than respondents with no experience. The survey represents insights into climate change perception and beliefs of the general public at the national level.

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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