scholarly journals A Climate Change Adaptation Planning Process for Low-Lying, Communities Vulnerable to Sea Level Rise

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (9) ◽  
pp. 2176-2208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Barron ◽  
Glenis Canete ◽  
Jeff Carmichael ◽  
David Flanders ◽  
Ellen Pond ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Adaptation Planning

scholarly journals Creating a Novel Multi-Layered Integrative Climate Change Adaptation Planning Approach Using a Systematic Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 4100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Hafezi ◽  
Oz Sahin ◽  
Rodney Stewart ◽  
Brendan Mackey
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Treatment Options ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Adaptation Planning ◽  
Small Island ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Adaptive Responses ◽  
Planning Approach

Climate change adaptation planning requires the integration of disciplines, stakeholders, different modelling approaches, treatment options, and scales of analysis. An integrated stepwise planning approach is a critical requirement for effective climate change adaptation in the context of small island developing states and coastal communities. To address this need, this paper reports on a systematic review of 116 research papers from an initial set of around 650 academic peer-reviewed papers. These papers were assessed and categorised based on their planning framework or the approach utilised, measured climate change impacts, employed methods and tools, and recommended adaptation strategies or options. This study identified three important dimensions of a fully integrated climate change adaptation planning process, namely, integration in assessment, integration in modelling, and integration in adaptive responses. Moreover, it resulted in the formulation of a novel multi-layered integrative climate change adaptation planning approach. Adopting this holistic and integrative approach is more likely to yield better climate change adaptation in planning outcomes over the long term.

scholarly journals Engaging with Communities for Climate Change Adaptation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Stephenson ◽  
Jule Barth ◽  
Sophie Bond ◽  
Gradon Diprose ◽  
Caroline Orchiston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Groundwater Levels ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Urban Settlements

Many of New Zealand’s urban settlements are likely to be affected by climate-induced hazards such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding and rising groundwater levels, and some are already being affected. These communities face many physical, social, financial and emotional challenges, and there is significant potential for inequitable outcomes. To ensure successful adaptation, local authorities will need to adopt new approaches to engaging with communities that are exposed to these hazards.

scholarly journals Engaging with Communities for Climate Change Adaptation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet Stephenson ◽  
Jule Barth ◽  
Sophie Bond ◽  
Gradon Diprose ◽  
Caroline Orchiston ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Climate Change Adaptation ◽  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Emotional Challenges ◽  
Groundwater Levels ◽  
Significant Potential ◽  
Urban Settlements

Many of New Zealand’s urban settlements are likely to be affected by climate-induced hazards such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, flooding and rising groundwater levels, and some are already being affected. These communities face many physical, social, financial and emotional challenges, and there is significant potential for inequitable outcomes. To ensure successful adaptation, local authorities will need to adopt new approaches to engaging with communities that are exposed to these hazards.

scholarly journals Quantitative Coastal Resilience Assessment Framework under Climate Change and Sea Level Rise

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Wu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sea Level Rise ◽  
Sea Level ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Coastal Hazards ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
Assessment Framework ◽  
Coastal Resilience ◽  
Resilience Assessment

Accompanied by increasing population growth and urban sprawl, most coastal cities are unprecedentedly vulnerable to climate change and its impacts, such as sea level rise, increasing extreme storm events, and coastal flooding. Coastal resilience and sustainable development are antidotes to vulnerability; they aim to enhance the adaptive capability of absorbing disturbances and resisting uncertainty. This study explores building a quantitative assessment framework to measure resilience and provide an objective and comparable method to understand the strengths and weaknesses in a given region. The proposed 25 resilience indicators incorporate the aspects of essential livelihood protection, infrastructure and natural resource maintenance, emergency facilities and institutions, floodplain management regulations, and adaptive planning process. Each indicator is assigned the resilience quality that includes robustness, resourcefulness, redundancy, and rapidity. The aggregated resilience quality scoring reflects the systematic performance of the city to cope with the coastal hazards. The innovative part of this framework is combining hazard mitigation measures, climate adaptation strategies, and sustainable development goals together to achieve a comprehensive assessment method. In the case of New Haven, the resilience assessment is taken as a practical monitoring tool and decision-making support.

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