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

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.

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

10.5194/gc-2021-23 ◽

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.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12166458 ◽

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.

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

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21646 ◽

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 (&#214;KS15). 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.&#160;&#160;</p>

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

Science and Technology Development Journal ◽

10.32508/stdj.v19i2.696 ◽

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.

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

Water ◽

10.3390/w11122658 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (12) ◽

pp. 2658 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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.

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The role of a knowledge broker in improving knowledge and understanding of climate change in the Australian rangelands

The Rangeland Journal ◽

10.1071/rj15060 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 37 (6) ◽

pp. 541 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Mary-Anne Healy ◽

Kate Forrest ◽

Gary Bastin

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Information Needs ◽

Knowledge Broker ◽

Project Delivery ◽

Face To Face ◽

Climate Change Information ◽

Project Objectives ◽

Science And Research

This paper considers the role of a knowledge broker to coordinate and connect activity within a cross-disciplinary project to deliver climate change science and research to regional natural resource management (NRM) planning in the Australian rangelands. We use the Rangelands Cluster Project as a case study. Due to the additional challenges facing project delivery in the rangelands such as remoteness, distance and low and sparsely distributed population, the project development phase included the central role of a knowledge broker to support the project objectives: identifying climate change information needs, providing quality information that can be incorporated into NRM planning, and establishing networks of researchers and NRM planners across the rangelands. The knowledge broker facilitated a process that included face-to-face meetings, workshops, surveys, email and teleconferencing to establish relationships and identify priorities as well as to refine project outputs. This facilitation allowed clearer communication between parties who were very remote from each other and worked in different disciplines, ensuring the different expertise was brought into the project, connections made and relationships formed.

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Communicating climate change findings from IPCC reports: Lessons from outreach events in India

10.21203/rs.3.rs-163512/v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Minal Pathak ◽

Joyashree Roy ◽

Shaurya Patel ◽

Shreya Some ◽

Purvi Vyas ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Media Coverage ◽

Solution Space ◽

Intergovernmental Panel ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Face To Face ◽

Public Events ◽

Research Collaborations ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Open Discussion

Abstract India has been collaboratively hosting public dissemination events to communicate climate change science and knowledge using Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports since 2007. All three special reports from Sixth Assessment cycle have been presented in multiple outreach events in various states of India. The primary aim has been to satisfy the growing appetite among various social groups for reliable scientific understanding of climate change and the solution space. The study includes insights from 18 physical outreach events conducted in India. The format ranged from very large public events with mixed stakeholder presence in the audience with presence of national/subnational policy makers; workshops, meetings and seminars with implementing sectors and investors, financial institutions, NGOs and a third category with knowledge generators, researchers, teachers and students. The follow up mass media and social media coverage have been a positive spin off. The events provided platform for open discussion on bottom-up local good practices, very localised impacts and connection to climate systems and reasons for concern and action. Feedback received is rich and rewarding. Face to face outreach events have enormous co benefits and trust building scope as side talks, coffee time talks, small side meetings, casual clarifications all help in providing space to participants for dispelling doubts, build long term research collaborations and they become ambassadors and adopters of IPCC science. Overall, the events were hugely successful, however many more such events, especially in local languages are needed to ensure messages of the IPCC reach the wider stakeholders.

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

Earth System Dynamics ◽

10.5194/esd-9-1155-2018 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (4) ◽

pp. 1155-1158 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

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.

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

Climate ◽

10.3390/cli9080132 ◽

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.

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

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13168793 ◽

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%.

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