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Fig.1.4 The risk concept as applied to sudden-onset and slow-onset processes. SourceHuggel
et al. (2016a)
framework for understanding and addressing climate-related risks (see Fig. 1.3).
CRM broadly may be defined as comprehensively reducing, preparing for, and
financing climate-related risk, while tackling the underlying risk drivers, includ-
ing climate-related and socio-economic factors (Schinko et al. 2016). Climate risk
managementcanbuildonexpertisedeveloped inDRRandCCAresearchandprac-
tice.Firstly, itconsidersclimateriskasafunctionofhazard(andanyclimate-related
changes),exposureandvulnerability;secondly,itgivesproperattentiontovariability
andprobability (low frequencyvs. high frequency events), calling for probabilistic
riskanalytical approaches; and thirdly, it accounts fordifferences in riskperception
and thevarious typesofoutcomes.
Inprinciple, this climate risk concept canbeapplied to sudden-onset events and
slow-onset climate-related processes unfoldingover timescales fromhours to days
(landslides,storms,floods)toweeksandmonths(droughts,heatwaves),toyears(sea-
levelriseandimpacts),anddecades(glacialshrinkage)(seeFig.1.4).Inpractice,risk
analysishassofarusuallybeenapplied tophenomenalastingfromhours tomonths.
Whileriskanalysisisakeypolicytoolforclimateriskmanagement,includingdealing
withunavoided lossesanddamages, it cannoteffectivelyaddress those impacts that
are irreversibleandpermanent.
1.4 ABroadeningResearchLandscape–Chapter
Summaries
Over the last few years research onL&Dhas grown in number and focus. In this
section, we summarise some of themost relevant findings from the various book
chapters providing a reviewof key topics addressed in the book.Buildingon fore-
words by policymakers and negotiators fromdeveloping (DawnPierre-Nathoniel
of theSmall IslandState of Saint Lucia) and developed countries (Ingrid-Gabriela
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Title
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Subtitle
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Authors
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Publisher
- Springer Open
- Date
- 2019
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Size
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 580
- Keywords
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Categories
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima