Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience through Big Data

Abstract

The adverse effect of climate change is gradually increasing all over the world and developing countries are more sufferer. The potential of big data can be an effective tool to make an appropriate adaptation strategy and enhance the resilience of the people. This study aims to explore the potential of big data for taking proper strategy against climate change effects as well as enhance people's resilience in the face of the adverse effect of climate change. A systematic literature review has been conducted in the last ten years of existing kinds of literature. This study argues that resilience is a process of bounce back to the previous condition after facing any adverse effect. It also focuses on the integrated function of the adaptive, absorptive and transformative capacity of a social unit such as individual, community or state for facing any natural disaster. Big data technologies have the capacity to show the information regarding upcoming issues, current issues and recovery stages of the adverse effect of climate change. The findings of this study will enable policymakers and related stakeholders to take appropriate adaptation strategies for enhancing the resilience of the people of the affected areas. Keywords-Disaster resilience; administrative resilience; community resilience; disaster management; environmental managementAs a new paradigm, a big data approach is considered as the most effective method for taking quick and effective decisions [9]. It can analyze the huge amount of data obtained from various sources such as weather data, social media, electronic and print media, non-governmental organizations, voluntary community organizations, and various social networking sites. Big data provides a big opportunity for communication which can help susceptible community people about an upcoming threat, challenges, risks and disasters [10]. Communication provides a way to communicate with each other before, during and after a disaster to inform the condition to one another and make preparation and also acts as a source of big data [11]. Big data encourage researchers and policymakers to conduct an in-depth analysis of communication data from a mobile phone, social media and other communication devices which has big rationality for disaster resilience.

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