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Fig.3.1 Risk framework for theanalysisof extremeevent impacts. Source IPCC(2012)
planning that helps to reduce exposure, aswell as the absorption of losses through
risk transfer suchas insurance, therebychangingvulnerability.
3.1.2 ExtremeWeather ImpactsandLossandDamage
Impactsfromanthropogenicclimatechangearemanifold,andtherearemostlynega-
tiveconsequences,especiallywithhigherratesofwarming,aswellasafewpositive
effects.Herewe focus on the impacts fromextremeweather events. This provides
only apartial picture ofLoss andDamage, as theremaybenegative consequences
from climate change that are not related to extremeweather events. Such impacts
occur becauseofmoregradual shifts, often called slow-onset processes, in climate
variables such as average (seasonal) land-surface temperatures, average rainfall, as
wellasothervariables,suchassea-levelrise, lossoficeandsnow-cover,andincreas-
ing temperatures of water bodies such as rivers, lakes and oceans. These impacts
include shifts or loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, coastal erosion and loss of
land,submergenceof low-lyingislandsandatolls,changes inagriculturalyield,and
loss of indigenous and cultural practices and traditions.Many of such impacts are
treated in this book in the chapters by Serdeczny (2018) and van der Geest et al.
(2018).
Still, aconsiderableshareof impactsonnaturalandhumansystemsisassociated
withchangesinweatherextremesasaresultofnaturalclimatevariability,andpossi-
blyalsoanthropogenicclimatechange.Anadvantageforresearchisthatimpactsfrom
extremeweather events are relativelywell-documentedacross theglobe, compared
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