Hazard and climate vulnerability and capacity assessment toolkit : the Afghanistan resilience consortium’s guide to assessing community resilience and vulnerability to natural hazards and climate change in Afghanistan / editors Alec Knuerr and Shirinagha Samim ; design and layout Zahra Khodadadi ; cover image Zahra Khodadadi.

In the mountainous canton Grisons, much visited by tourists, the forest has always had an important role to play. New challenges are now presenting themselves. The article goes more closely into two themes on the Grisons forestry agenda dominating in the next few years: the increased use of timber and climate change. With the increased demand for logs and the new sawmill in Domat/Ems new opportunities are offered to the canton for more intensive use of the raw material, wood. This depends on a reduction in production costs and a positive attitude of the population towards the greater use of wood. A series of measures from the Grisons Forestry Department should be of help here. The risk of damage to infrastructure is particularly high in a mountainous canton. The cantonal government of the Grisons has commissioned the Forestry Department to define the situation concerning the possible consequences of global warming on natural hazards and to propose measures which may be taken. The setting up of extensive measurement and information systems, the elaboration of intervention maps, the estimation of the danger potential in exposed areas outside the building zone and the maintenance of existing protective constructions through the creation of a protective constructions register, all form part of the government programme for 2009 to 2012. In the Grisons, forest owners and visitors will have to become accustomed to the fact that their forests must again produce more wood and that, on account of global warming, protective forests will become even more important than they already are today.

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Recent nationwide climate change impact assessments of natural hazards in Japan and East Asia

Weather and Climate Extremes ◽

10.1016/j.wace.2021.100309 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 32 ◽

pp. 100309

Author(s):

Nobuhito Mori ◽

Tetsuya Takemi ◽

Yasuto Tachikawa ◽

Hirokazu Tatano ◽

Tomoya Shimura ◽

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Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

East Asia ◽

Natural Hazards ◽

Climate Change Impact ◽

Change Impact

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Poverty and climate change: introduction

Environment and Development Economics ◽

10.1017/s1355770x18000141 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 23 (3) ◽

pp. 217-233 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

Author(s):

Stephane Hallegatte ◽

Marianne Fay ◽

Edward B. Barbier

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Agricultural Production ◽

Heat Waves ◽

Future Research ◽

Poor People ◽

Special Issue ◽

National Wealth ◽

Economic Statistics ◽

Climate Vulnerability ◽

Impacts Of Climate Change

AbstractBecause their assets and income represent such a small share of national wealth, the impacts of climate change on poor people, even if dramatic, will be largely invisible in aggregate economic statistics such as the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Assessing and managing future impacts of climate change on poverty requires different metrics, and specific studies focusing on the vulnerability of poor people. This special issue provides a set of such studies, looking at the exposure and vulnerability of people living in poverty to shocks and stressors that are expected to increase in frequency or intensity due to climate change, such as floods, droughts, heat waves, and impacts on agricultural production and ecosystem services. This introduction summarizes their approach and findings, which support the idea that the link between poverty and climate vulnerability goes both ways: poverty is one major driver of people's vulnerability to climate-related shocks and stressors, and this vulnerability is keeping people in poverty. The paper concludes by identifying priorities for future research.

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