Showing papers in "Climate Risk Management in 2014"

TL;DR: In this paper, the physical conditions within individual physiographic regions in Bangladesh's coastal area based on ground-surveyed information, and possible area-specific mitigation measures to counter predicted rates of sea-level rise in the 21st century are reviewed.

TL;DR: In this paper, a UK-specific review of climate change beliefs, risk perceptions regarding potential climate change impacts, and attitudes towards climate change adaptation is provided, and the effects of emotion, agency, perceived responsibility, place attachment, personal values and uncertainty on the willingness of UK residents to support and engage with climate change adaptations are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented results from participatory research with farmers from two agro-ecological zones of Senegal, West Africa, based on simulation exercises, the introduction of seasonal and dekadal forecasts induced changes in farmers' practices in almost 75% of the cases.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the nature and sources of vulnerability of smallholder farmers to climate variability and change, and interviewed farmers individually and in groups in Makoni and Hwedza districts in eastern Zimbabwe.

TL;DR: A review of international models has been undertaken against three broad criteria for the functioning and sustainability of a flood insurance scheme: knowing the nature of the insurable risk; the availability of an insurable population; and the presence of a solvent insurer as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used observational and re-analysis datasets for precipitation and near-surface temperature to quantify the probability of their occurrence when central-east equatorial Pacific sea surface temperatures are abnormal, as during El Nino and La Nina events.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Vulnerability, Consequences, and Adaptation Planning Scenarios (VCAPS) process, a form of analytic-deliberative dialogue, and the conceptual frameworks of hazard management and climate vulnerability, to integrate scientific and local knowledge.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the literature on risk perceptions and responses to climate change using a cultural-political lens and highlighted the importance of participatory approaches in incorporating the multiplicity of interests at the community level into climate risk management in fair, transparent and culturally appropriate ways.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe an established approach to vulnerability assessment, the "Household Economy Approach" (HEA) and its potential application to the management of climate change in developing countries.

TL;DR: The scope of climate risk management as discussed by the authors covers historical, current, and future climate conditions across multiple space and time scales; risk assessment and risk management approaches for climate-sensitive sectors such as agriculture, forestry and fire management, health, mining, natural resources management, water management, the built environment, and tourism.

TL;DR: This article examined stakeholder perceptions of points where climate change impacts and adaptations currently occur, or may occur in the future, across the supply chains of several Australian fisheries and aquaculture sectors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present some of the key challenges and open questions climate service science will face in the coming years and discuss the challenges of bridging the divide still existing between climate science and decision-makers.

TL;DR: In this article, the utility of a seasonal hydrological forecasting system for the study area in the context of supporting farmer's information needs were assessed, specifically addressing the questions on how local farmers read and predict the weather; and how they can collaborate with weather scientists in devising adaptation strategies for climate variability (CV) in the Okavango Delta of Botswana.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used dynamical seasonal forecasts to predict water temperatures for south-east Tasmanian Atlantic salmon farm sites several months into the future, based on twenty years of historical validation, the model shows useful skill (i.e., predictive ability) for all months of the year at lead times of 0-1 months.

TL;DR: In this paper, a probabilistic statistical assessment of the link between observed climate changes and human activities in a way that can inform formal climate risk assessment is presented. But this approach cannot be applied to other climate variables and extremes allowing enhanced formal risk assessment of climate change.

TL;DR: In this paper, a first pass assessment of exposure to hurricane storm surge and sea-level rise for the U.S. Southeast and exposure of current and future housing along both the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts is presented.

TL;DR: This study reviews statistical investigations of disaster and development linkages, across topics of macroeconomic growth, public governance and others to identify key challenges to the current approach to macro-level statistical investigation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review evidence from the 2012 U.S. drought, highlighting the risk of extreme weather events to the agricultural sector in general, and the bioenergy supply chain in particular, including reductions in feedstock production and higher prices for agricultural commodities and biofuels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of crop advisors as brokers of climate information to support US corn farmers to adapt to climatic change is examined. And the authors argue that advisors' willingness to provide climate advice to farmers is influenced by three main factors: their information seeking habits and behavior, their experience with innovation in the past, and how climate information interplays with other kinds of information that they provide.

TL;DR: In this article, a method to incorporate different sources of climate data into the product design phase is presented, using Bayesian Networks to demonstrate how insurers can assess the product viability from a climate perspective, using past observations and simulations of future climate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored observed changes in the agricultural calendar as a response to climate variability in northern Benin, where interviews with local experts (agricultural extension officers and local leaders such as heads of farmer and village organisations) and group discussions with farmers were organized.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the application of a new methodology for coastal multi-hazard assessment and management in a changing global climate on the state of Djibouti, termed the Coastal Hazard Wheel (CHW) is developed for worldwide application and is based on a specially designed coastal classification system that incorporates the main static and dynamic parameters determining the characteristics of a coastal environment.

TL;DR: This study critically compares current decision criteria for problems of uncertainty and subsequently outlines an improved criterion which overcomes some of their limitations and criticisms, and is applied to a simplified real-world problem of designing an irrigation reservoir in the UK under climate change.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a farming population in the southern United States, whose particular circumstances are shaped by rural poverty as well as by racial discrimination, namely African American farmers and find that farmers are vulnerable to drought given their relatively limited access to resources and risk management mechanisms.

TL;DR: In this article, a cost-benefit analysis is applied to the adaptation decision, illustrated by application to an energy facility in Galveston Bay, where the projected rise in physical flood risk is combined with estimates of flood damage and protection costs in an analysis of the multi-period nature of adaptation choice.

TL;DR: In this article, the ENSO phase of a growing season was defined based on the average of the sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific region for the period June-October using the El Nino region 3.0 index.

TL;DR: In this article, a remote sensing index-based insurance framework is proposed for small-hold farmers in North Shewa, Ethiopia, and the applicability and usefulness of the approach is tested for smallhold farmers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a planning support system (PSS) was developed for planners to analyze and choose the best policy instrument in order to adapt to climate change in the Qazvin irrigation and drainage network, located in the central part of Iran that is mainly supplied by the Taleghan reservoir.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors attempt to estimate changes to flood risk for the Brisbane River region of south-east Queensland which has a long history of serious flood events but which now benefits from the mitigating effect of the upstream Wivenhoe Dam.