scholarly journals Infrastructure Decision-Making under Climate Change Uncertainty: Case Study of Centralized Heating at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio

2022 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tyler A. Ferry ◽  
Justin D. Delorit ◽  
Christopher M. Chini
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Uncertainty

Climate-induced migration, women and decision making power in the agricultural wage sector in Saiss, Morocco.

2021 ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
D. Najjar ◽  
B. Dhehibi ◽  
B. Baruah ◽  
A. Aw-Hassan ◽  
A. Bentaibi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Adaptive Strategy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Property Ownership ◽  
Study Characteristics ◽  
Effects Of Drought ◽  
Stay Behind

Abstract This chapter examines the gendered effects of drought-induced migration in rural Morocco for settler migrants and farmers who stay behind in sending communities. Due to state investments in irrigation, the Saiss plains of Morocco are experiencing rural-rural migration as an adaptive strategy for many who are escaping climate change and unemployment, to take advantage of labor opportunities in agricultural sectors elsewhere. The well-being and decision making power of male and female migrants in receiving communities (Betit and Sidi Slimane) and women staying behind in sending communities (Ain Jemaa) are examined. The chapter begins with a literature review on decision making power, gender, migration, and work in rural areas. Following this, the case study characteristics are presented, which detail how climate change is fueling migration, gender norms in host and sending communities, as well as the gender dynamics in accessing economic opportunities and decision making power. The chapter ends with recommendations to strengthen the women's decision making power as migration continues, with a focus on strengthening landed property ownership for women.

scholarly journals The adequacy of institutional frameworks and practice for climate change adaptation decision making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Judith Helen Lawrence
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Climate Change Uncertainty ◽  
Change Characteristics ◽  
Decision Making Framework ◽  
Adaptation Decision

<p>The ability of decision makers to respond to climate change impacts such as sea-level rise and increased flood frequency is challenged by uncertainty about scale, timing, dynamic changes that could lead to regime shifts, and by societal changes. Climate change adaptation decision making needs to be robust and flexible across a range of possible futures, to provide sufficient certainty for investment decisions in the present, without creating undue risks and liabilities for the near and long-term futures. A country’s governance and regulatory institutions set parameters for such decisions. The decision-making challenge is, therefore, a function of the uncertainty and dynamic characteristics of climate change, a country’s institutional framework, and the ways in which actual decision-making practice delivers on the intention of the framework.  My research asks if the current decision-making framework, at national and sub-national scales, and practices under it are adequate to enable decision makers to make climate change adaptation decisions that sufficiently address the constraints posed by climate change uncertainty and dynamic change. The focus is on New Zealand’s multi-scale governance and institutional framework with its high level of devolution to the local level, the level assumed as the most appropriate for climate change adaptation decisions. Empirical information was collected from a sample of agencies and actors, at multiple governance scales reflecting the range of geographical characteristics, governance types, organisational functions and actor disciplines. Data were collected using a mix of workshops, interviews and document analyses. The adequacy of the institutional framework and practice was examined using 12 criteria derived from the risk-based concepts of precaution, risk management, adaptive management and transformational change, with respect to; a) understanding and representing uncertainty and dynamic climate change; b) governance and regulations; and c) organisations and actors.  The research found that the current decision-making framework has many elements that could, in principle, address uncertainty and dynamic climate change. It enables long-term considerations and emphasises precaution and risk-based decision making. However, adaptive and transformational objectives are largely absent, coordination across multiple levels of government is constrained and timeframes are inconsistent across statutes. Practice shows that climate risk has been entrenched by misrepresentation of climate change characteristics. The resulting ambiguity is compounded at different governance scales, by gaps in the use of national and regional instruments and consequent differences in judicial decisions. Practitioners rely heavily upon static, time-bound treatments of risk, which reinforce unrealistic community expectations of ongoing protections, even as the climate continues to change, and makes it difficult to introduce transformational measures. Some efforts to reflect changing risk were observed but are, at best, transitional measures. Some experimentation was found in local government practice and boundary organisations were used as change-agents. Any potential improvements to both the institutional framework and to practices that could enable flexible and robust adaptation to climate change, would require supporting policies and adaptive governance to leverage them and to sustain decision making through time.  This thesis contributes to understanding how uncertainty and dynamic climate change characteristics matter for adaptation decision making by examining both a country-level institutional framework and practice under it. The adequacy analysis offers a new way of identifying institutional barriers, enablers and entry points for change in the context of decision making under conditions of uncertainty and dynamic climate change.</p>

Sensitivity Analysis of Coupled Hydro-Economic Models: Quantifying Climate Change Uncertainty for Decision-Making

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (12) ◽  
pp. 4303-4318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniela R. D’Agostino ◽  
Alessandra Scardigno ◽  
Nicola Lamaddalena ◽  
Daniel El Chami
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Sensitivity Analysis ◽  
Economic Models ◽  
Climate Change Uncertainty

scholarly journals Framework for mapping the drivers of coastal vulnerability and spatial decision making for climate-change adaptation: A case study from Maharashtra, India

AMBIO ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-212 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pandian Krishnan ◽  
Pachampalayam Shanmugam Ananthan ◽  
Ramachandran Purvaja ◽  
Jeyapaul Joyson Joe Jeevamani ◽  
John Amali Infantina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Vulnerability ◽  
Spatial Decision Making

scholarly journals Innovation Pathways to Adaption for Humanitarian and Development Goals: A Case Study of Aftershock Forecasting for Disaster Risk Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 05 (02n03) ◽  
pp. 1850010
Author(s):  
Max Hope ◽  
John McCloskey ◽  
Dom Hunt ◽  
Dominic Crowley ◽  
Mairead NicBhloscaidh
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Innovation Strategy ◽  
Effective Strategy ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Paradigm ◽  
Business And Management

The innovation process is central to effective adaption to climate change and development challenges, but models from business and management tend to dominate innovation theory, which sits outside the adaption-development paradigm. This paper presents an alternative conceptual framework to visualize innovations as pathways across the adaption-development landscape for humanitarian and development goals. This useful tool can reveal, map and coordinate innovation strategy. To demonstrate and validate this approach, we analyze a case study of innovation in aftershock forecasting for humanitarian decision-making and show that the most effective strategy is for multiple innovation strands and hubs to move concurrently and cumulatively towards transformative humanitarian and development goals.

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