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100 1 _aDessai, Suraje.
245 1 0 _aQuantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCham :
_bSpringer International Publishing AG,
_c2024.
264 4 _c�2024.
300 _a1 online resource (228 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aIntro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme -- 1 Introduction -- 2 A Brief History of UK Climate Research and Policy on Adaptation -- 3 The Science Plan and its Implementation -- 4 Book Roadmap -- References -- 2 Climate Resilience: Interpretations of the Term and Implications for Practice -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Broad or Narrow -- 3 Operational or Place-based -- 4 Implications for Building Resilience in the UK -- 5 What Next? -- References -- Part I Undertaking Resilience Research -- 3 Towards a Step Change in Co-Production for Climate Resilience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What is Co-Production? -- 3 What Works Well -- 3.1 Gathering Community Experience -- 3.2 Sustaining Engagement Throughout -- 3.3 Getting Creative with Storytelling -- 3.4 Balancing Power and Managing Expectations -- 3.5 Experimenting with Upscaling -- 4 Emerging Challenges and Opportunities -- 4.1 Focus on the Process, Not Just Outputs -- 4.2 Revise Funding Structures and Timescales -- 4.3 Promote New Measures of Success -- 4.4 Invest in Multidisciplinary Approaches -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Learning from Organisational Embedding for Climate Resilience -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Embedded Researcher Scheme -- 2.1 Funded Projects and Outcomes -- 2.2 A Note on Embedding During a Global Pandemic -- 3 How did researchers and hosts experience the ER scheme? -- 4 What Helped and What Hindered in Achieving Effective Outcomes? -- 4.1 Being 'on the Inside' of the Organisation -- 4.2 Flexibility in the Research Workplan -- 4.3 Openness to Learning on Both Sides -- 4.4 Seniority and Length of Service Are Less Important Than Personality and Outlook -- 4.5 Adequate Commitment from ER and Host -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part II Managing Climate Risks.
505 8 _a5 Putting Climate Resilience in Its Place: Developing Spatially Literate Climate Adaptation Initiatives -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Local Places -- 2.1 ClimaCare -- 2.2 CLandage -- 3 Neighbourhoods -- 3.1 MAGIC -- 3.2 Creative Climate Resilience -- 4 Cities -- 4.1 London Climate Action -- 4.2 Meeting Urban User Needs -- 4.3 Manchester Climate Ready -- 5 Regions -- 5.1 Once Upon a Time -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- 6 Learning from Arts and Humanities Approaches to Building Climate Resilience in the UK -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Importance of Place -- 3 Generating Dialogue -- 4 Understanding Community and Policy Impacts -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Part III Tools for Resilience Building -- 7 What Have We Learned from the Climate Service Projects Delivered Through the UK Climate Resilience Programme? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Projects -- 3 Key Learnings -- 3.1 Enabling Environment -- 3.1.1 Provider Organisations -- 3.1.2 User Organisations -- 3.1.3 Wider Context -- 3.2 User Trust -- 3.3 Scalability -- 4 Implications for Future Climate Services Landscape -- 4.1 Incentivisation -- 4.1.1 Service Providers -- 4.1.2 Users -- 4.1.3 Context (Regulators) -- 4.2 Context (Funders) -- 4.3 Scaling up -- 4.3.1 Service Providers -- 4.3.2 Context (Funders) -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 8 What Insights Can the Programme Share on Developing Decision Support Tools? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Survey and Review of Decision Support Tools -- 2.1 Web-Based Interactive Tools -- 2.2 Infographics and Climate Hazard Information -- 2.3 Data Outputs -- 3 Development of Decision Support Tools -- 4 Usability of Decision Support Tools -- 5 Barriers in Decision Support Tool Development -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part IV Understanding and Characterising Risk -- 9 Improved Understanding and Characterisation of Climate Hazards in the UK -- 1 Introduction.
505 8 _a2 Advances in Hazard Data -- 3 Advances in Methods for Characterising Hazards -- 4 Improved Physical Understanding of Hazards -- 5 Future Hazards -- 6 Distilling Climate Information -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- 10 Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Changes in Hazard and Resource Across the UK -- 2.1 Climate Projections and the Construction of Climate Scenarios -- 2.2 Natural Environment and Assets -- 2.3 Infrastructure -- 2.4 Health, Communities and the Built Environment -- 3 How Have the Results Been Used so Far? -- 4 Gaps and Challenges -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 11 What Has Been Learned About Converting Climate Hazard Data to Climate Risk Information? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Progress in Climate Risk Quantification-Overview -- 2.1 Risks and Indicators -- 3 Areas of Progress in Methodological Development -- 3.1 Spatially Coherent Event Set Generation Versus Local Return Periods -- 3.2 Exposure and Vulnerability Data -- 3.3 New Datasets for Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability and Exposure -- 3.4 Treatment of Uncertainties -- 4 Gaps and Remaining Challenges -- 4.1 Hazards -- 4.2 Exposure and Vulnerability -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 12 Note on Delivering Impact -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Ensure Regular Dialogue with End Users Throughout a Project to Ensure All Outputs Are Relevant and Usable -- 3 Develop a Detailed Timeline for Engagement and Dissemination Activities Capitalising on Periods of Heightened Subject Interest -- 4 Identify Ways of Measuring 'Engagement' and 'Impact' as Early in a Project as Possible -- 5 Summarise Findings into Bite-Size, Visually Appealing and Easily Relatable Formats -- 6 Build Solid Relationships with End Users to Help Disseminate Findings Directly to Target Audiences -- 7 Adopt Creative and Community-Based Engagement Activities -- References -- 13 Afterword.
505 8 _a1 Ways of Working and Community Building -- 2 Novel Evidence -- 3 Reflections on Developing a Transdisciplinary Research Programme -- 4 Research Gaps and Future Directions -- 4.1 Transdisciplinary Research -- 4.2 Boundary-Spanning Skills -- 4.3 Managing the Risk -- 4.4 Co-producing Climate Services -- 4.5 Hazard to Risk -- 5 Concluding Thoughts -- References -- Project References -- Index.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aLonsdale, Kate.
700 1 _aLowe, Jason.
700 1 _aHarcourt, Rachel.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aDessai, Suraje
_tQuantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK
_dCham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2024
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