Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptations in Canadian  Arctic Communities

Champalle, Clara; Ford, James D.; Sherman, Mya

doi:10.3390/su7079268

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“…Such diagnostic approaches are commonly used for guiding resource management programs (e.g. as reviewed by [43]) as well as understanding policy interactions [44]. Diagnostic application to economic vulnerability also exist (e.g.…”

Section: Network Analysismentioning

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A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment

Debortoli

Sayles

Clark

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Vulnerability to climate change is a product of biophysical and social dynamics. Assessments of community or regional vulnerability, however, often focus on quantitative infrastructure and environmental assessments, or qualitative assessments of a community's social dynamics and livelihood activities. A dearth of integrated quantitative assessments is a major barrier for decision makers who require quantitative outputs and indicators, which can measure where vulnerability is most severe and can be linked to climate projections. Our framework and analysis helps address such gaps by identifying variables to build climate change vulnerability indices, which we pilot here focusing on Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic. We start with a systematic literature review of community-based vulnerability studies and assess relationships among 58 social and biophysical variables. We then use multiplex network analysis to determine how social and environmental variables interact among and within the key component of vulnerability: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. We identify several structurally important variables that interact within and across the three dimensions of vulnerability. This method is transferable as an integrative means of understanding not only the direct causes of vulnerability, but also relations that are less tangible. The approach of multiplex network analysis can be a building block to ongoing development of vulnerability indices within the human dimensions of climate change field.

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Section: Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment

Debortoli

Sayles

Clark

et al. 2018

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…Because of the distributive and long-term nature of climate change impacts, setting priorities is a key to progress on adaptation (Smith 1997;Füssel 2007;Lobell et al 2008). Prioritisation is also useful to mainstream adaptation into existing policy and reduce competing interests (Champalle et al 2015). It is thus argued that an adaptation plan that does not clearly say what is important and what is not (by, e.g.…”

Section: Prioritisation and Timingmentioning

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Are local climate adaptation policies credible? A conceptual and operational assessment framework

Olazabal

Galarraga

Ford

et al. 2019

International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development

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After the Paris Agreement that put stronger emphasis on the development of climate change adaptation policies and on the definition of financing mechanisms, there is a patent need to track whether actual planning efforts are proving sufficient. This entails the development of assessment methods and metrics as plans are drafted and actions implemented. To this end, this paper explores the concept of credibility as a critical issue in climate policy and develops an Adaptation Policy Credibility (APC) conceptual and operational assessment framework for helping to allocate public funding and private investments, and for implementing and catalysing climate policy. Through a pilot testing in four early-adopting cities (Copenhagen, Durban, Quito and Vancouver), a clear potential for large-n tracking and assessment exercises of local climate adaptation plans is envisaged. The APC approach might also be useful to guide individual cities that aim to improve their adaptation planning and policy-making processes. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Adaptation assessments are needed to identify, evaluate, and prioritize adaptation opportunities, identify barriers that need to be overcome, and examine how adaptation decision-making processes work in specific contexts (Wise et al 2014;Biesbroek et al 2015;Champalle et al 2015). While a variety of approaches and decision support tools have been developed to this end, few have been applied to support adaptation decision-making generally or in a LCLUC context, with an absence of ''usable'' or ''decision-orientated'' science noted to be a major constraint to adaptation (Dilling and Lemos 2011;Ford and King 2015;Taylor and McAllister 2015).…”

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Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes

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Half of Earth's land surface has been altered by human activities, creating various consequences on the climate and weather systems at local to global scales, which in turn affect a myriad of land surface processes and the adaptation behaviors. This study reviews the status and major knowledge gaps in the interactions of land and atmospheric changes and present 11 grand challenge areas for the scientific research and adaptation community in the coming decade. These land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC)-related areas include 1) impacts on weather and climate, 2) carbon and other biogeochemical cycles, 3) biospheric emissions, 4) the water cycle, 5) agriculture, 6) urbanization, 7) acclimation of biogeochemical processes to climate change, 8) plant migration, 9) land-use projections, 10) model and data uncertainties, and, finally, 11) adaptation strategies. Numerous studies have demonstrated the effects of LCLUC on local to global climate and weather systems, but these putative effects vary greatly in magnitude and even sign across space, time, and scale and thus remain highly uncertain. At the same time, many challenges exist toward improved understanding of the consequences of atmospheric and climate change on land process dynamics and services. Future effort must improve the understanding of the scale-dependent, multifaceted perturbations and feedbacks between land and climate changes in both reality and models. To this end, one critical cross-disciplinary need is to systematically quantify and better understand measurement and model uncertainties. Finally, LCLUC mitigation and adaptation assessments must be strengthened to identify implementation barriers, evaluate and prioritize opportunities, and examine how decisionmaking processes work in specific contexts.

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Prioritizing Climate Change Adaptations in Canadian Arctic Communities

Cited by 30 publications

References 47 publications

A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment

A systems network approach for climate change vulnerability assessment

Are local climate adaptation policies credible? A conceptual and operational assessment framework

Grand Challenges in Understanding the Interplay of Climate and Land Changes

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