scholarly journals Teaching climate risk: a pilot training for tertiary students and practitioners in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Borges de Amorim ◽  
Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Pilot Training ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
Mapping Exercise

Abstract. Climate change is one of the major challenges of our society thus educational resources on climate risk and adaptation are needed. In this case study, we present a short-duration training for tertiary students and practitioners about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s climate risk framework. The training uses Problem-Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy, and its suitability and benefits are evaluated with observational qualitative analysis and self-assessment of knowledge of the participants of 5 independent groups in Brazil. We find that the application of a mapping exercise using the IPCC’s climate risk framework supports learning about climate risk, as well as data interpretation, creativity, teamwork, communication, and critical thinking by the participants. This work merges the IPCC’s climate risk framework and PBL for climate risk training. The proposed training enables the teaching of climate risk in stand-alone courses and professional development training in areas which climate is an embedded component.

scholarly journals Teaching climate risk for water planning: a pilot training for tertiary students and practitioners in Brazil

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-554
Author(s):  
Pablo Borges de Amorim ◽  
Pedro Luiz Borges Chaffe
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Pilot Training ◽  
Self Assessment ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Risk Framework

Abstract. Climate change is one of the major challenges of our society; thus educational resources on climate risk and adaptation are needed. In this case study, we present a short-duration face-to-face training for water professionals about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)'s climate risk framework. The training uses problem-based learning (PBL) pedagogy, and its suitability and benefits are evaluated with qualitative observation and self-assessment of knowledge of tertiary students and practitioners from five independent groups in Brazil. We find that the application of a mapping exercise using the IPCC's climate risk framework supports learning about climate risk, as well as data interpretation, creativity, teamwork, communication, and critical thinking by the participants. This work merges the IPCC's climate risk framework and PBL for climate risk training. The proposed training enables the teaching of climate risk in stand-alone courses and professional development training in areas where climate is an embedded component.

scholarly journals Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessment of Floods in Austria: Mapping Homogenous Regions, Hotspots and Typologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6458
Author(s):  
Jutta-Lucia Leis ◽  
Stefan Kienberger
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Vulnerability Assessment ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Economic Dimension ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
Risk Approach ◽  
Administrative Units ◽  
Vulnerability Framework

This research addresses the need for proactive climate risk management (CRM) by developing and applying a spatial climate risk and vulnerability assessment (CRVA) to flooding under consideration of the socio-economic dimension in Austria. Our research builds on a consolidated risk and vulnerability framework targeting both disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA) while integrating the consolidated risk approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Furthermore, our research advances current methodologies by applying a spatially explicit and indicator-based approach, which allows the targeted and place-specific identification of intervention options—independent from the spatial bias of administrative units. The flooding CRVA is based on a comprehensive list of 14 primary indicators and 35 socio-economic sub-indicators. Our results indicate that high levels of socio-economic vulnerability related to flooding are concentrated in the northern and eastern regions of Austria. When integrating a climate hazard proxy, statistically significant risk hotspots (>90% confidence) can be identified in central-northern Austria and towards the east. Furthermore, we established a typology of regions following a spatially enabled clustering approach. Finally, our research provides a successful operationalization of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) risk framework in combination with enhanced spatial analysis methods.

Hot spots - cold spots - what dots? A critical reflection on integrated climate risk assessments – example flood risk in Austria

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Kienberger ◽  
Jutta-Lucia Leis
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Change Scenario ◽  
Physical Vulnerability ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Adaptation Measures

<p>Climate risk, and related impacts, are determined by a variety of natural, climatological and socio-economic factors. In its fifth Assessment Report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has adapted the concept and terminology in this respect. The challenge is: How can relevant influencing factors be identified and integrated? And, how can these factors be represented spatially and integratively in order to provide decision makers with a sound basis for adaptation measures? The central starting question is: Where do I do what (and when)? Within the Austrian ACRP project 'RESPECT', a novel climate change risk analysis for the natural hazard 'flooding' was developed. Special attention is paid to the modelling of socio-economic and physical vulnerability and its integration into a spatially explicit climate risk analysis. As a result, spatial and thematic hotspots of social and physical vulnerability and climate risk for Austria are identified, which serve as a basis for the identification of adaptation measures.</p><p>As a result, climate risk maps are available for Austria, which show risk and vulnerability hotspots as homogeneous spatial regions, independent from administrative boundaries and traditional raster-based approaches. These hotspots are quantitatively evaluated by an index value as a measure of climate risk. In addition to the purely quantitative evaluation, it is also possible to characterise and present the spatial units qualitatively, in terms of 'problem areas' and contributing factors. This is a significant development compared to 'traditional' spatial units (grid cell based; based on administrative units). Thus the question mentioned at the beginning can be answered - where are which intervention measures necessary. The results are available for socio-economic and physical climate risk, which are flanked by corresponding hazard and vulnerability maps. Results for the present and the future have been produced using proxy indicators from the high-resolution Austrian climate change scenario data (ÖKS15). This makes it possible to identify future hot spots under the assumption of different climate scenarios. The presentations presents the adapted risk concept and methodological approach, respectively, and reflects critically on the opportunities and challenges of climate risk analysis in Austria and in general for the planning of climate change adaptation measures.  </p>

scholarly journals Climate change communication programs – a case study for local government managers in Thuan An district, Binh Duong province

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-27
Author(s):  
Tuan Ngoc Le ◽  
Trang Thi Thu Dien
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Community Awareness ◽  
Change Communication ◽  
Object Properties ◽  
Management Capacity ◽  
Communication Programs

95% of the causes of climate change (CC), according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), are rooted from human activities. Raising community awareness is, thus, the primary solution to the issue. This research aims to develop communication programs to raise public awareness of CC, a case study in Thuan An District. The context, object properties, information gaps, and communication demand, etc. have been surveyed and documented. Thereby, the CC communication programs were proposed, including: objectives, messages, media, and compatible communication activities, etc. The communication materials (manuals, posters, training books, etc.) were also compiled accordingly. This model can be expanded in other areas, contributing to improvement of managers’ awareness and management capacity, and then being more proactive in coping to the current situation of CC in the province.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Potential Impacts Due to Urban Pluvial Floods in Badalona (Spain) in a Context of Climate Change

Water ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 2658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Martínez-Gomariz ◽  
Luca Locatelli ◽  
María Guerrero ◽  
Beniamino Russo ◽  
Montse Martínez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Rainfall Intensity ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Pluvial Flooding ◽  
The City ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Pluvial flooding in Badalona (Spain) occurs during high rainfall intensity events, which in the future could be more frequent according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this context, the present study aims at quantifying the potential impacts of climate change for the city of Badalona. A comprehensive pluvial flood multi risk assessment has been carried out for the entire municipality. The assessment has a twofold target: People safety, based on both pedestrians’ and vehicles’ stability, and impacts on the economic sector in terms of direct damages on properties and vehicles, and indirect damages due to businesses interruption. Risks and damages have also been assessed for the projected future rainfall conditions which enabled the comparison with the current ones, thereby estimating their potential increment. Moreover, the obtained results should be the first step to assess the efficiency of adaptation measures. The novelty of this paper is the integration of a detailed 1D/2D urban drainage model with multiple risk criteria. Although, the proposed methodology was tested for the case study of Badalona (Spain), it can be considered generally applicable to other urban areas affected by pluvial flooding.

scholarly journals ESD Ideas: a simple proposal to improve the contribution of IPCC WGI to the assessment and communication of climate change risks

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1155-1158 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rowan T. Sutton
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Risk Assessments ◽  
Climate Risk ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Group I ◽  
Climate Change Risks ◽  
Ipcc Working Group

Abstract. The purpose of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to provide policy-relevant assessments of the scientific evidence about climate change. Policymaking necessarily involves risk assessments, so it is important that IPCC reports are designed accordingly. This paper proposes a specific idea, illustrated with examples, to improve the contribution of IPCC Working Group I to informing climate risk assessments.

scholarly journals Effects of Climate Change on the Future of Heritage Buildings: Case Study and Applied Methodology

Climate ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (8) ◽  
pp. 132
Author(s):  
Harold Enrique Huerto-Cardenas ◽  
Niccolò Aste ◽  
Claudio Del Pero ◽  
Stefano Della Torre ◽  
Fabrizio Leonforte
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Masonry Building ◽  
Indoor Climate ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Heritage Buildings

Heritage buildings and the precious artworks contained therein, represent inestimable cultural and artistic evidence from the past that must be properly preserved for future generations. In the last decades, climate change has gained relevance and is becoming crucial to assess the building performance under such effect to provide timely mitigation actions to preserve our cultural heritage. In this regard, this paper outlines a method that combines different experimental activities and tools to forecast possible future risks due to climate change for the conservation of the artworks and provide its application in a relevant case study in Italy, the Duomo di Milano. In detail, the suggested method consists of the monitoring of the building indoor climate to validate a simulation model, defining possible future scenarios based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projections, and evaluation of the future conservation risks of the main artworks. The results of the analysis carried out, show that for some artworks (e.g., stone sculptures, some organic materials, etc.), the conservation conditions will not worsen compared to the current situation, while for others (e.g., paintings, wooden objects, etc.) the risk of deterioration is expected to increase substantially. This study helps to understand how the future climate can affect the indoor environment of a huge masonry building and allow to plan targeted mitigation strategies aimed to reduce the future risks.

scholarly journals Effect of Climate Changes on Renewable Production in the Mediterranean Climate: Case Study of the Energy Retrofit for a Detached House

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 8793
Author(s):  
Rosa Francesca De Masi ◽  
Valentino Festa ◽  
Antonio Gigante ◽  
Margherita Mastellone ◽  
Silvia Ruggiero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Efficiency Measures ◽  
Detached House ◽  
The Impact

One of the strategies of the European Green Deal is the increment of renewable integration in the civil sector and the mitigation of the impact of climate change. With a statistical and critical approach, the paper analyzes these aspects by means of a case study simulated in a cooling dominated climate. It consists of a single-family house representative of the 1980s Italian building stock. Starting from data monitored between 2015 and 2020, a weather file was built with different methodologies. The first objective was the evaluation of how the method for selecting the solar radiation influences the prevision of photovoltaic productivity. Then, a sensitivity analysis was developed, by means of modified weather files according to representative pathways defined by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report. The results indicate that the climate changes will bring an increment of photovoltaic productivity while the heating energy need will be reduced until 45% (e.g., in March) and the cooling energy need will be more than double compared with the current conditions. The traditional efficiency measures are not resilient because the increase of the cooling demand could be not balanced. The maximization of installed photovoltaic power is a solution for increasing the resilience. Indeed, going from 3.3 kWp to 6.9 kWp for the worst emission scenario, in a typical summer month (e.g., August), the self-consumption increases until 33% meanwhile the imported electricity passes from 28% to 17%.

scholarly journals Projected Impact of Heat on Mortality and Labour Productivity under Climate Change in Switzerland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zélie Stalhandske ◽  
Valentina Nesa ◽  
Marius Zumwald ◽  
Martina S. Ragettli ◽  
Alina Galimshina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Labour Productivity ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Economic Costs ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Rcp Scenarios ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Hazard Exposure ◽  
Risk Framework ◽  
The Cost

Abstract. Extreme temperatures have reached unprecedented levels in many regions of the globe due to climate change anda further increase is expected. Besides other consequences, high temperatures increase the mortality risk and severely affectthe labour productivity of workers. We perform a high-resolution spatial analysis to assess the impacts of heat on mortality and labour productivity in Switzerland and project their development under different Representative Concentration Pathway (RCP) scenarios, considering that no socio-economic changes takes place. The model is based on the risk framework of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which combines the three risk components: Hazard, Exposure, and Vulnerability. We model the two impact categories in the same spatially explicit framework and we integrate uncertainties into the analysis through a Monte Carlo simulation. We model, that first, about 670 people die today per year because of heat in Switzerland. Second, the economic costs caused by losses in labour productivity amount to around CHF 413 million (approx. $ 465 million) per year. Should we remain on an RCP8.5 emissions pathway, these values may double (for mortality) or even triple (for labour productivity) by the end of the century. Under an RCP2.6 scenario impacts are expected to slightly increaseand peak around mid-century, when climate is assumed to stop warming. Even though uncertainties in the model are large, theunderlying trend in impacts is unequivocal. The results of the study are valuable information for political discussions and allowfor a better understanding of the cost of inaction.

scholarly journals Climate Change Effect on Building Performance: A Case Study in New York

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 3160
Author(s):  
Kristian Fabbri ◽  
Jacopo Gaspari ◽  
Licia Felicioni
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
New York ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
System Capacity ◽  
Building Performance ◽  
Intergovernmental Panel ◽  
Winter Time ◽  
Indoor Comfort

The evidences of the influence of climate change (CC) in most of the key sectors of human activities are frequently reported by the news and media with increasing concern. The building sector, and particularly energy use in the residential sector, represents a crucial field of investigation as demonstrated by specific scientific literature. The paper reports a study on building energy consumption and the related effect on indoor thermal comfort considering the impacts of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2018 report about temperature increase projection. The research includes a case study in New York City, assuming three different scenarios. The outcomes evidence a decrease in energy demand for heating and an increase in energy demand for cooling, with a relevant shift due to the summer period temperature variations. The challenge of the last decades for sustainable design was to increase insulation for improving thermal behavior, highly reducing the energy demand during winter time, however, the projections over the next decades suggest that the summer regime will represent a future and major challenge in order to reduce overheating and ensure comfortable (or at least acceptable) living conditions inside buildings. The growing request of energy for cooling is generating increasing pressure on the supply system with peaks in the case of extreme events that lead to the grid collapse and to massive blackouts in several cities. This is usually tackled by strengthening the energy infrastructure, however, the users’ behavior and lifestyle will strongly influence the system capacity in stress conditions. This study focuses on the understanding of these phenomena and particularly on the relevance of the users’ perception of indoor comfort, assuming the IPCC projections as the basis for a future scenario.

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