scholarly journals Adapting to Climatic Extremes through Climate Resilient Industrial Landscapes: Building Capacities in the Southern Indian States of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Narendran Kodandapani
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Needs Assessment ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Andhra Pradesh ◽  
Climatic Extremes ◽  
Industrial Parks ◽  
The Many ◽  
Industrial Landscapes ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

There is now greater confidence and understanding of the consequences of anthropogenic caused climate change. One of the many impacts of climate change, has been the occurrence of extreme climatic events, recent studies indicate that the magnitude, frequency, and intensity of hydro-meteorological events such as heat waves, cyclones, droughts, wildfires, and floods are expected to increase several fold in the coming decades. These climatic extremes are likely to have social, economic, and environmental costs to nations across the globe. There is an urgent need to prepare various stakeholders to these disasters through capacity building and training measures. Here, we present an analysis of the capacity needs assessment of various stakeholders to climate change adaptation in industrial parks in two southern states of India. Adaptation to climate change in industrial areas is an understudied yet highly urgent requirement to build resilience among stakeholders in the Indian subcontinent. The capacity needs assessment was conducted in two stages, participatory rural appraisal (PRA) and focus group discussion (FGD) were conducted among various stakeholders to determine the current capacities for climate change adaptation (CCA) for both, stakeholders and functional groups. Our analysis indicates that in the states of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, all stakeholder groups require low to high levels of retraining in infrastructure and engineering, planning, and financial aspects related to CCA. Our study broadly supports the need for capacity building and retraining of functionaries at local and state levels in various climate change adaptation measures; likewise industry managers need support to alleviate the impacts of climate change. Specific knowledge, skills, and abilities, with regard to land zoning, storm water management, developing building codes, green financing for CCA, early warning systems for climatic extremes, to name a few are required to enhance and build resilience to climate change in the industrial landscapes of the two states.

scholarly journals Climate change adaptation: a pragmatic approach for assessing vulnerability

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-177
Author(s):  
M. Carvalho ◽  
B. Martins ◽  
J. P. Coelho ◽  
N. Brôco ◽  
A. K. Ribeiro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Water Supply ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Climate Extremes ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Wastewater Management ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
Events Data ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Abstract The impacts of climate change on society are becoming increasingly evident. The water sector is sensitive to variations in climatic patterns as it is expected that major changes in flows will occur, along with increased risks of water quality degradation and flooding. According to published climate scenarios the Mediterranean area will become dryer. As a leading group operating in the water sector in Portugal, AdP decided to develop a strategic plan for climate change adaptation with the aim of establishing a strategy for reducing business vulnerability and increasing systems resilience. In developing the plan, a pragmatic method was adopted for characterizing current vulnerabilities. This was founded on the bottom-up approach and supported with past events data, including evaluating their impacts, and the adaptive capacity of systems and utilities to climate extremes. In water supply, the effects of more severe and frequent extreme events are being felt with respect to water quality and availability, representing as much as 80% of the events studied, whereas, in terms of sanitation, floods account for about 90% of events identified. Globally, 78% and 21% of the measures adopted in water supply and wastewater management, respectively, were effective.

scholarly journals Factors Affecting Small-Scale Fishermen’s Adaptation Toward the Impacts of Climate Change: Reflections From Malaysian Fishers

SAGE Open ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824401986420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asnarulkhadi Abu Samah ◽  
Hayrol Azril Mohamed Shaffril ◽  
Azimi Hamzah ◽  
Bahaman Abu Samah
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Multistage Cluster Sampling ◽  
Adaptation Practices ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

This study aims to examine the influence of individual differences on the small-scale fishermen’s climate change adaptation practices toward climate change. This is a descriptive correlational study on 400 small-scale fishermen living in four climate change–affected areas in Malaysia, which were selected based on a multistage cluster sampling. In conclusion, it was found that age, income, and fishing experience recorded a significant relationship with climate change adaptation practices, whereas their household size did not yield any relationship with the adaptation practices. Furthermore, a number of small-scale fishermen who use fisheries technologies, have alternative jobs, and possess higher education have recorded better climate change adaptation practices compared with nonusers, full-timers, and less educated fishermen. Several recommendations were made to assist the concerned parties in developing better adaptation strategies that are fitted to the fishermen’s needs, interests, and abilities.

scholarly journals Climate change adaptation and precarity across the rural–urban divide in Cambodia: Towards a ‘climate precarity’ approach

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 899-921 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nithya Natarajan ◽  
Katherine Brickell ◽  
Laurie Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Structural Constraints ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Geographical Context ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

An emerging body of work has critiqued the concept of climate adaptation, highlighting the structural constraints impeding marginalised communities across the Global South from being able to adapt. This article builds on such work through analysis of debt-bonded brick workers in Cambodia, formerly small farmers. It argues that the detrimental impacts of climate change experienced by farmers-turned-workers across the rural – urban divide is due to their precarity. In doing so, this article draws on a conceptualisation of precarity which recognises it as emerging from the specific political economy of Cambodia, and as something that is neither new, nor confined to conditions of labour alone. As such, in looking to precarity as a means of conceptualising the relations of power which shape impacts of climate change, we advance a ‘climate precarity’ lens as a means of understanding how adaptation to climate change is an issue of power, rooted in a specific geographical context, and mobile over the rural–urban divide.

scholarly journals Climate change and the Puget Sound: Building the legal framework for adaptation

Climate Law ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yee Huang ◽  
Robert L. Glicksman ◽  
Catherine O’Neill ◽  
William L. Andreen ◽  
Victor Flatt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Climate Change Effects ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Adaptation Policies ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Puget Sound Region

Regardless of the efforts governments may take to mitigate the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities on climate change, the need for society to adapt to climate change is unavoidable. Adapting to the myriad impacts of climate change will require actions at all levels of government. This article focuses on the anticipated impacts of climate change on the Puget Sound region in the northwestern United States as an example of the range of problems climate change will present and of the solutions available to governments and others interested in avoiding or minimizing the adverse impacts of climate change. As a guide for policy-makers, the article offers general principles for formulating climate change adaptation policies, suggestions for changes in decision-making processes that make them more suitable for addressing the unpredictable impacts of climate change, and strategies for adapting to three specific categories of climate change effects: impacts on the hydrologic cycle, sea-level rise, and altered meteorological conditions. The strategies and recommendations analysed in the article can provide a model for climate change adaptation policies, both in the Puget Sound region and more broadly, that are both environmentally protective and socially equitable.

scholarly journals Impacts of climate change adaptation options on soil functions: A review of European case-studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (8) ◽  
pp. 2378-2389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Hamidov ◽  
Katharina Helming ◽  
Gianni Bellocchi ◽  
Waldemar Bojar ◽  
Tommy Dalgaard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Soil Functions ◽  
Adaptation Options ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Weathering The Storm: Developing a Climate Change Adaptation Policy for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority

2014 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Leighty ◽  
Ellen Simon ◽  
Kyung-Ok Yi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Severe Weather ◽  
Adaptation Policy ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Weather Damage ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation Policy

For many Americans the impacts of climate change are either hypothetical futures or far-off problems. However, climate change is already impacting millions of Americans as they commute to work each day. In the Nation’s capital the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority has already suffered as heat waves and severe weather damage equipment and reduce service. The transportation authority must take a comprehensive look at its infrastructure and adapt policies to mitigate the current and future risks to transportation services.

scholarly journals Public health and climate change: How are local authorities preparing for the health impacts of our changing climate?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah C Woodhall ◽  
Owen Landeg ◽  
Sari Kovats
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
South West ◽  
South West England ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

ABSTRACT Background Local authorities have a crucial role in preparing for the impacts of climate change. However, the extent to which health impacts are being prioritized and acted on is not well understood. Methods We investigated the role of public health in adapting to climate change through: (i) a content analysis of local authority climate change adaptation strategies in South West England and (ii) semi-structured telephone interviews with local authority public health consultants and sustainability officers and a regional Public Health England representative (n = 11). Results Adaptation strategies/plans varied in existence and scope. Public health consultants did not have an explicit remit for climate change adaptation, although related action often aligned with public health’s emergency planning functions. Key barriers to health-related adaptation were financial constraints, lack of leadership and limited public and professional awareness about health impacts. Conclusions Local authorities in South West England have differing approaches to tackling health impacts of climate change, and the prominence of public health arguments for adaptation varies. Improved public health intelligence, concise communications, targeted support, visible local and national leadership and clarity on economic costs and benefits of adaptation would be useful for local authorities in preparing for the health impacts of climate change.

Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Population Groups ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change

Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services addresses concerns from the health and community services sector, including local government, about how to respond to climate change and its impacts on communities. What should an intervention framework for the community-based health and social services sector contain and how can it complement an organisation's core values, role and work programs? What current direct and indirect impacts of climate change are most relevant to organisations and the communities they serve? Which population groups are most vulnerable to climate change and what are the impacts on them? Above all, what can be done to reduce the current risks from climate change to clients, communities and organisations? Written by expert researchers and practitioners, this book presents existing research, innovative practice and useful tools to support organisations taking practical steps towards adaptation to the impacts of climate change on people. It examines the evidence of climate change impacts on six of the most vulnerable population groups – people with disability; older people; women and children; Aboriginal people; rural people; and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds – as well as discussing effective interventions. Other key issues covered include health and social impacts of climate change, adaptation, mitigation, climate change communication, organisational adaptation and a case study of innovation illustrating some of the book’s themes. Accessible, informative and incorporating extensive evidence and experience, Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services is relevant for anyone within the health and community services sector concerned about climate change and its impacts on their community.

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.

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