Does climate change cause disasters? How citizens, academics, and leaders explain climate-related risk and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Lizarralde, Gonzalo; Bornstein, Lisa; Robertson, Mélanie; Gould, Kevin A.; Herazo, Benjamín; Petter, Anne-Marie; Páez, Holmes; Díaz, Julia Helena; Olivera, Andrés; González, Gonzalo; López, Oswaldo; López, Alejandro Álvarez; Ascui, Hernan; Burdiles, Roberto; Bouchereau, Karine

doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102173

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“…The ethical implications of these examples in the LAC region are deeply intertwined with the socio-political narratives and perceptions shaping responses to these phenomena. The framing of these challenges often overlooks the ethical responsibilities and socio-political accountability, focusing mainly on the origin of the geohazards and neglecting societal issues contributing to vulnerability and exposure (Lizarralde et al, 2021;Nightingale et al, 2020;Scoville-Simonds et al, 2020). This approach ignores the ethical obligation to address foundational injustices that are the result of marginalisation, exclusion, (neo)colonialism, inequality, and racism.…”

Section: Climate Change Geohazards and The Anthropic Rolementioning

confidence: 99%

Integrating geoethics in tertiary education: a strategy for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Villacorta,

Pinto,

Camprubí

et al. 2024

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Section: Climate Change Geohazards and The Anthropic Rolementioning

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Integrating geoethics in tertiary education: a strategy for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Villacorta,

Pinto,

Camprubí

et al. 2024

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“…From an urban planning perspective, social vulnerability to climate hazards is altered due to diverse planning decisions, such as reducing urban green spaces, favouring private transportation, and creating substandard housing (Loh and Kim 2020). Vulnerability is also determined by political and economic processes that are context-specific, such as gender inequities, discrimination based on ethnic, religious, or cultural factors, lack of financial capacities, and age or health conditions that lead to differential rates of adaptation and recovery (Lizarralde et al 2021;Wilson, Hutson, and Mujahid 2008). Hence, recognising and understanding these differential vulnerabilities is critical for proposing means to generate environmentally just pathways for climate action.…”

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Analysing the treatment of environmental justice and nature-based solutions in the Urban Climate Action Plans of Latin American metropolitan areas

Kato-Huerta

Geneletti

2023

Local Environment

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Urban Climate Action Plans are instruments increasingly being used by governments to identify vulnerabilities and propose technological, engineered and ecosystem-based actions for adapting to and mitigating climate change effects. However, as the outcomes of the climate response could asymmetrically affect marginalised communities already more impacted by climate-related hazards, researchers and practitioners have expressed concerns regarding the lack of attention given to the environmental justice (EJ) implications of climate action planning. In this context, this study uses content analysis to review the inclusion and framing of EJ concerns in Urban Climate Action Plans from 30 Latin American cities as a less studied and particularly vulnerable world region. Moreover, we investigate whether and how these documents translate justice concerns into concrete strategies, with particular emphasis given to the use of Nature-based solutions. We found that, through the years, the concerns related to EJ are more prominent but are rarely concretised into specific actions. When they are, these actions are less framed within systemic policy interventions and more into educational and capacity-building strategies. Finally, most planning documents frame Nature-based solutions for biodiversity conservation purposes, forgoing the opportunity to adopt the socially transformative potential of the term for enhancing sustainable and just futures.

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“…Watershed vulnerabilities to climate change in the economic, social, environmental, and water sectors, and their associated uncertainties in calculations, are great hydrological challenges in the 21st century [1]. Millions of people (and sectors) around the world, including the economic, social, environmental, and water sectors, are affected each year by climate disasters [2]. In recent decades, the impacts of climate change have already become visible, mainly in the increase in temperatures [3], and the increase and/or decrease in precipitation in various regions across the world [4,5].…”

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“…For instance, many world regions face issues due to water scarcity and flooding events [7]. Despite multiple scientific efforts [2], assessing the vulnerability to climate change is not an easy task due to the large number of variables involved and the associated growing uncertainty, especially in the future.…”

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Coupled Model for Assessing the Present and Future Watershed Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impacts

Martínez

Herrera

Cruz

et al. 2023

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There is great uncertainty about the future effects of climate change on the global economic, social, environmental, and water sectors. This paper focuses on watershed vulnerabilities to climate change by coupling a distributed hydrological model with artificial neural networks and spatially distributed indicators for the use of a predictive model of such vulnerability. The analyses are complemented by a Monte Carlo evaluation of the uncertainty associated with the projections of the global circulation models, including how such uncertainty impacts the vulnerability forecast. To test the proposal, the paper uses current and future vulnerabilities of the Turbio River watershed, located in the semi-arid zone of Guanajuato (Mexico). The results show that nearly 50% of the watershed currently has medium and high vulnerabilities, and only the natural areas in the watershed show low vulnerabilities. In the future, an increase from medium to high vulnerability is expected to occur in urban and agricultural areas of the basin, with an associated uncertainty of ±15 mm in the projected precipitation.

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Does climate change cause disasters? How citizens, academics, and leaders explain climate-related risk and disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean

Cited by 27 publications

References 58 publications

Integrating geoethics in tertiary education: a strategy for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Integrating geoethics in tertiary education: a strategy for sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean

Analysing the treatment of environmental justice and nature-based solutions in the Urban Climate Action Plans of Latin American metropolitan areas

Coupled Model for Assessing the Present and Future Watershed Vulnerabilities to Climate Change Impacts

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