scholarly journals Modelling Climate–Sensitive Forest Succession to Assess Impacts of Climate Change and Support Decision Making

GI_Forum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 65-81
Author(s):  
Alois Simon
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Forest Succession ◽  
Support Decision Making ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

scholarly journals County-level climate change information to support decision-making on working lands

2017 ◽  
Vol 148 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emile Elias ◽  
T. Scott Schrader ◽  
John T. Abatzoglou ◽  
Darren James ◽  
Mike Crimmins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
County Level ◽  
Climate Change Information ◽  
Working Lands ◽  
Support Decision Making

From climate projections to climate change services in Australia – retrospective and future directions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Clarke ◽  
Karl Braganza ◽  
Geoff Gooley ◽  
Michael Grose ◽  
Louise Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Climate Science ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Climate Projections ◽  
Government Investment ◽  
Help Desk ◽  
The North ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

<p>Australia is the World’s driest inhabited continent. It is highly exposed to the impacts of climate change: surrounded by sensitive marine ecosystems including the Great Barrier Reef, vulnerable to tropical cyclones and changing monsoonal patterns in the north, experiencing declining rainfall and runoff in the heavily populated southern and eastern parts of the country, and subject to increasingly severe bushfires. The ever-present flood, drought and bushfire cycles have historically motivated government investment in programs that aim to understand the nation’s climate and its drivers, and to inform adaptation planning and disaster risk management.</p><p>Accordingly, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) have been at the forefront of understanding Australia’s past and future climate for four decades.</p><p>The most recent national climate projections were published in 2015. These focussed on the needs of the natural resource management sector and represented a first step towards delivery of climate change services tailored to the sector’s needs. Products included decision support tools and provision of training for capacity building. A key component of the research program was stakeholder engagement from inception. The resultant Climate Change in Australia website (www.climatechangeinaustralia.gov.au) and Help Desk represented the most ambitious steps to date towards a comprehensive Australian climate change service, and were a first attempt at user-driven information delivery.</p><p>Now five years on, users' needs have evolved substantially. Key drivers of this include: (1) the Paris Agreement (2015) to limit global temperature rise to below 2.0°C (ideally below 1.5°C) above pre-industrial levels, (2) implications of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD, 2017), and (3) IPCC Special Reports. This has occurred on top of a trend towards increasingly sophisticated uses of climate projections datasets for decision-making. Existing products do not meet all user needs. There is a pronounced ‘pull’ from users of climate projections for sector-specific "decision-relevant" information for risk-management decisions. The cross-jurisdictional impacts of climate change have also resulted in a need for authoritative, standardized and quality-assured climate scenarios for the entire country, to facilitate whole of sector, cross-agency and multi-sector responses and adaptation. As Lourenco et al (2016) said, climate change services for Australia need to shift from “science-driven and user informed services to user-driven and science informed services.”</p><p>There is increased emphasis on sector-specific tools that aim to provide decision-relevant information and underpinning datasets. An ongoing challenge is the need to enable the uptake of climate information in decision-making. This necessitates a skill uplift on the user side. To date, efforts have focused on the water, finance, energy, and indigenous land management sectors. Increasingly, the focus within Australia is on working together across jurisdictional boundaries to provide nationally consistent information; with enhanced transparency drawing upon climate science resources within universities and all levels of government. Strong partnerships with the private sector are also needed in order to deliver to burgeoning demand. Success will require genuine co-design, co-production and co-evaluation of sector-specific products with a suite of support services appropriate to the needs of diverse users.</p>

scholarly journals Simulation of Optimal Decision-Making Under the Impacts of Climate Change

2017 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Ravnkilde Møller ◽  
Martin Drews ◽  
Morten Andreas Dahl Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Optimal Decision ◽  
Optimal Decision Making ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process to support decision making on climate change adaptation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumyadeep Banerjee ◽  
Avash Pandey ◽  
Bal Krishna Jamarkattel ◽  
Jagannath Joshi ◽  
Barsha R. Gurung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
The Analytic Hierarchy Process ◽  
Hierarchy Process ◽  
Support Decision Making

Integrating sanitation and climate change adaptation: lessons learned from case studies of WaterAid’s work in four countries

Waterlines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-114
Author(s):  
Tallulah Gordon ◽  
Andrés Hueso
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Social Aspects ◽  
Climate Resilience ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Project Level

The links between climate change and sanitation are frequently overlooked in the WASH sector. This paper examines experiences of WaterAid in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India, and Madagascar where there was some consideration of the impacts of climate change on sanitation. Climate resilience was often not considered explicitly, however, with work instead framed around weather-related threats that are now increasingly frequent and severe. In these case studies, sanitation and climate integration involved adapting on-site sanitation hardware to physical impacts on infrastructure, while some social aspects of climate resilience were also considered. Integration took place primarily at the project level, while climate change consideration seemed absent from wider planning and decision-making. Aside from these case studies, most of WaterAid’s sanitation work does not seem to incorporate climate change. It is recommended that climate resilience is integrated into each stage of sanitation programming, with a more systematic consideration of its potential impacts.

This Must Be the Place: Underrepresentation of Identity and Meaning in Climate Change Decision-Making

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Neil Adger ◽  
Jon Barnett ◽  
F. S. Chapin ◽  
Heidi Ellemor
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Community Identity ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Future Climate Change ◽  
Local Material ◽  
Principles Of Justice ◽  
Cultural Components ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

The dangers that future climate change poses to physical, biological, and economic systems are accounted for in analyses of risk and increasingly figure in decision-making about responses to climate change. Yet the potential cultural and social impacts of climate change have scarcely been considered. In this article we bring the risks climate change poses to cultures and social systems into consideration through a focus on places—those local material and symbolic contexts that give meaning and value to peoples' lives. By way of examples, the article reviews evidence on the observed and projected impacts of climate change on the Arctic and Pacific island atoll nations. It shows that impacts may result in the loss of many unique natural and cultural components of these places. We then argue that the risk of irreversible loss of places needs to be factored into decision-making on climate change. The article then suggests ways forward in decision-making that recognizes these non-market and non-instrumental metrics of risk, based on principles of justice and recognition of individual and community identity.

scholarly journals To Mitigate or Adapt? Explaining Why Citizens Responding to Climate Change Favour the Former

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 240
Author(s):  
Kristina Blennow ◽  
Johannes Persson
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Perception ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Tipping Point ◽  
Climate Change Risk ◽  
Positive Experiences ◽  
Local Impacts ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Why do citizens’ decisions made because they favour the mitigation of climate change outnumber those made because they favour adaptation to its impacts? Using data collected in a survey of 338 citizens of Malmö, Sweden, we tested two hypotheses. H1: the motivation for personal decisions because they favour adaptation to the impacts of climate change correlates with the decision-making agent´s knowledge of specific local impacts of climate change, and H2: the motivation for personal decisions because they favour mitigation of climate change correlates with the risk perception of the decision-making agent. While decisions made because they favour mitigation correlated with negative net values of expected impacts of climate change (risk perception), decisions made because they favour adaptation correlated with its absolute value unless tipping point behaviour occurred. Tipping point behaviour occurs here when the decision-making agent abstains from decisions in response to climate change in spite of a strongly negative or positive net value of expected impacts. Hence, the decision-making agents´ lack of knowledge of specific climate change impacts inhibited decisions promoting adaptation. Moreover, positive experiences of climate change inhibited mitigation decisions. Discussing the results, we emphasised the importance of understanding the drivers of adaptation and mitigation decisions. In particular, we stress that attention needs to be paid to the balance between decisions solving problems ‘here and now’ and those focusing on the ‘there and then’.

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