Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore, Carri Hulet, Patrick Field

Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities (eBook, ePUB)

Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the US Government's National Estuarine Research Reserve System, four New England coastal towns, and the Consensus Building Institute. The first half of the book offers a series of chapters that explain how and why climate adaptation requires collective rather than individual risk management. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks-including sea level rise, storm intensification, changing patterns of rainfall, and increasing temperature-must be taken by local and regional stakeholders.

While collective action is critical for climate adaptation, many communities are not ready to effectively tackle the adaptation challenge, and need enhanced collaborative capacity to support collective risk management. Using concrete examples, this book offers strategies to increase the readiness of communities to deal effectively with the impacts of climate change. It introduces methods for assessing local climate change risks and describes tools for evaluating the social and political contexts in which collective action can take place. It also shares NECAP research demonstrating that engaging communities in tailored role-play simulations has impacted public understanding of climate risks and local readiness to support collective risk management efforts.

The second half of the book presents the products of NECAP, including stakeholder assessments (showing how key stakeholders think about climate risks), risk assessments (including downscaled forecasts from global climate models presented in a way that is accessible to the public), tailored role play simulations (that other communities can use to engage residents in their locality), community case studies (that provide statistical and qualitative evidence of the before-and-after impact of public engagement in serious games), and the results of public opinion polls following interventions in each community after almost 18 months.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783084883
• Artikelnr.: 44366932

Autorenporträt

Lawrence Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Founder and Chief Knowledge Officer of the Consensus Building Institute (CBI).

Danya Rumore is the Associate Director of the Environmental Dispute Resolution Program and a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Utah.

Carri Hulet is a Senior Associate with CBI.

Patrick Field is Managing Director of CBI and Associate Director of the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program.

Inhaltsangabe

Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART I. 1. Helping Coastal Communities Prepare for and Respond to Climate Change-Related Risks
2. Assessing the Social Landscape, Understanding the Readiness Challenge
3. Why Public Engagement is Necessary to Enhance Local Readiness for Climate Adaptation
4. NECAP Summary Risk Assessments: Creating Usable Knowledge to Help Communities Manage Climate Change Risks
5. Enhancing Readiness to Adapt through Role-Play Simulations
6. Reflecting on the New England Climate Adaptation Project-Lessons Learned
7. Toward a Theory of Collective Risk Management
Appendix 1. Risk Assessment Projection: Barnstable
Appendix 2. Risk Assessment Projection: Cranston
Appendix 3. Risk Assessment Projection: Dover
Appendix 4. Risk Assessment Projection: Wells
Appendix 5. Workshop Pre-Questionnaires
Appendix 6. Workshop Post-Questionnaires
Appendix 7. Data Appendix: Workshop Survey and Public Poll Tables
PART II. Introduction
Stakeholder Assessment
Summary Risk Assessment
Role-play Simulation
Case Study
Public Poll Report
About the Authors
New England Climate Adaptation Project Partners
Index