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1 Science forLossandDamage.FindingsandPropositions 17
Change on Ecosystem Services and Resulting Losses and Damages to People
and SocietywrittenbyKeesvanderGeest,AlexdeSherbinin, StefanKienberger,
ZintaZommers,AshaSitati, ErinRoberts andRachel James advances understand-
ing of the impacts of climatic stressors on ecosystems in light of the implications
for losses and damages to people and society. The chapter develops a conceptual
framework for studying the complex relations,which is applied to a case study of
multi-annual drought in the drylands of theWest-African Sahel. This case study
exhibits the complexity of causal links betweenclimate change, climate variability
and specificweather and climate events leading to losses and damages, including
warming,multi-decadaldrought, andflooding.Theauthorsconclude thechapterby
advisingagainst theoversimplificationofcausalityandsuggest thatgovernanceand
natural resourcemanagementshouldbegivenattentioninfutureresearchandpolicy
discussions.
Howdoweunderstand displacement and resettlement in the context of climate
change?AlisonHeslin,NatalieDeliaDeckard,RobertOakesandAriannaMontero-
Colbert’s contribution on Displacement and Resettlement: Understanding the
Role of Climate Change in Contemporary Migration presents challenges and
debates in the literature on climate change impacts and the growingglobal flowof
people.Theauthorsposition theirdiscussionwithin the literatureonenvironmental
migration, presenting associateddefinitions, formsof environmentalmigration and
waystomeasurethemovementofpeople.Theliteratureonthereceptionofmigrants
andmigrant resettlement isalsopresented.Thediscussion iscontextualised through
a selection of caseswhere the environment plays a role in displacing populations,
includingsealevelriseinPacificIslandStates,cyclonicstormsinBangladesh,deser-
tification inWestAfrica, anddeforestation inSouthAmerica’sSouthernCone.The
examples highlight the complex set of losses and damages incurred by population
displacement ineachcase.
1.4.3 ResearchandPractice:ReviewingMethodsandTools
Thechapter on theRole of the Physical Sciences in Loss and Damage Decision-
MakingbyAnaLopez,SwenjaSurminskiandOliviaSerdecznyelaboratesoncon-
tributionsthatphysicalclimatesciencecanmaketoimprovedecision-makers’under-
standingofclimate-relatedlossesanddamages.Forclimatescienceboththepresent
andfutureareof relevancewhenestimatingactualandpotential lossesanddamages
associatedwithclimatechange.Forboth timescalesclimatescienceseeks tounder-
stand those aspects that determine the climate-hazard, including the links between
human inducedchanges inclimateandclimatevariability, theprobabilityofoccur-
rence of extrememeteorological events (e.g., rainfall), and the resulting hazards
leadingtolossesanddamages(e.g.,flood).Thechapterreviewstheapproachesused
to assess this component of risk. Particular attention is paid to the identification of
sourcesofuncertaintyand thepotential forproviding robust information to support
decision-making. As the authors demonstrate, uncertainty does not imply policy
Loss and Damage from Climate Change
Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Titel
- Loss and Damage from Climate Change
- Untertitel
- Concepts, Methods and Policy Options
- Autoren
- Reinhard Mechler
- Laurens M. Bouwer
- Thomas Schinko
- Swenja Surminski
- JoAnne Linnerooth-Bayer
- Verlag
- Springer Open
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-319-72026-5
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 580
- Schlagwörter
- Environment, Climate change, Environmental law, Environmental policy, Risk management
- Kategorien
- International
- Naturwissenschaften Umwelt und Klima