Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities

Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore, Carri Hulet, Patrick Field

Description

Introducing a practical framework for building local capacity to respond to climate change

This volume reports on the research completed as part of the multi-year New England Climate Adaptation Project (NECAP), a partnership between the MIT Science Impact Collaborative, the US Government's National Estuarine Research Reserve System, four New England coastal towns, and the Consensus Building Institute. The first half of the book offers a series of chapters that explain how and why climate adaptation requires collective rather than individual risk management. It argues that most of the responsibility for responding to climate risks—including sea level rise, storm intensification, changing patterns of rainfall, and increasing temperature—must be taken by local and regional stakeholders.

While collective action is critical for climate adaptation, many communities are not ready to effectively tackle the adaptation challenge, and need enhanced collaborative capacity to support collective risk management. Using concrete examples, this book offers strategies to increase the readiness of communities to deal effectively with the impacts of climate change. It introduces methods for assessing local climate change risks and describes tools for evaluating the social and political contexts in which collective action can take place. It also shares NECAP research demonstrating that engaging communities in tailored role-play simulations has impacted public understanding of climate risks and local readiness to support collective risk management efforts.

The second half of the book presents the products of NECAP, including stakeholder assessments (showing how key stakeholders think about climate risks), risk assessments (including downscaled forecasts from global climate models presented in a way that is accessible to the public), tailored role play simulations (that other communities can use to engage residents in their locality), community case studies (that provide statistical and qualitative evidence of the before-and-after impact of public engagement in serious games), and the results of public opinion polls following interventions in each community after almost 18 months. 

Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART I. 1. Helping Coastal Communities Prepare for and Respond to Climate Change-Related Risks; 2. Assessing the Social Landscape, Understanding the Readiness Challenge; 3. Why Public Engagement is Necessary to Enhance Local Readiness for Climate Adaptation; 4. NECAP Summary Risk Assessments: Creating Usable Knowledge to Help Communities Manage Climate Change Risks; 5. Enhancing Readiness to Adapt through Role-Play Simulations; 6. Reflecting on the New England Climate Adaptation Project—Lessons Learned; 7. Toward a Theory of Collective Risk Management; Appendix 1. Risk Assessment Projection: Barnstable; Appendix 2. Risk Assessment Projection: Cranston; Appendix 3. Risk Assessment Projection: Dover; Appendix 4. Risk Assessment Projection: Wells; Appendix 5. Workshop Pre-Questionnaires; Appendix 6. Workshop Post-Questionnaires; Appendix 7. Data Appendix: Workshop Survey and Public Poll Tables; PART II. Introduction; Stakeholder Assessment; Summary Risk Assessment; Role-play Simulation; Case Study; Public Poll Report; About the Authors; New England Climate Adaptation Project Partners; Index

Sujets

• POLITICAL SCIENCE
• Earth science
• Environmental policy
• Public policy
• Science

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• Publié par: Anthem Press
• Date de parution: 15 septembre 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783084883
• Langue: English
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Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
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Managing Climate Risks in Coastal Communities
Strategies for Engagement, Readiness and Adaptation
Lawrence Susskind, Danya Rumore, Carri Hulet and Patrick Field
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CONTENTS
Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
PART I
1. Helping Coastal Communities Prepare for and Respond to Climate Change-Related Risks
2. Assessing the Social Landscape, Understanding the Readiness Challenge
3. Why Public Engagement is Necessary to Enhance Local Readiness for Climate Adaptation
4. NECAP Summary Risk Assessments: Creating Usable Knowledge to Help Communities Manage Climate Change Risks
5. Enhancing Readiness to Adapt through Role-Play Simulations
6. Reflecting on the New England Climate Adaptation Project—Lessons Learned
7. Toward a Theory of Collective Risk Management
Appendices
Appendix 1: Climate Change Projections: Barnstable
Appendix 2: Climate Change Projections: Cranston
Appendix 3: Climate Change Projections: Dover
Appendix 4: Climate Change Projections: Wells
Appendix 5: Workshop Pre-Questionnaire
Appendix 6: Workshop Post-Questionnaire
Appendix 7: Data Appendix: Workshop Survey and Public Poll Tables
Pre-Workshop Survey
Post-Workshop Survey
2013 Public Poll
2014 Public Poll
PART II
Introduction
Stakeholder Assessment: Dover, New Hampshire
Summary Risk Assessment: Barnstable, Massachusetts
Role-Play Simulation: Wells, Maine
Case Study: Cranston, Rhode Island
Public Poll Report: Wells, Maine
About the Authors
New England Climate Adaptation Project Partners
Index
FIGURES AND TABLES
Figure 1.1 NECAP Project Timeline
Figure 2.1 Poll Results—Consideration of Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 2.2 Poll Results—Concern about Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 2.3 Poll Results—How Significant Planning for Climate Change Should Be
Figure 2.4a Poll Results—Responsibility for Preparing for Local Climate Change Impacts (2013)
Figure 2.4b Poll Results—Responsibility for Preparing for Local Climate Change Impacts (2014)
Figure 2.5 Poll Results—Factors Preventing Local Action
Figure 2.6 Poll Results—How Significant Planning for Climate Change Should Be versus Will Be
Figure 2.7 Poll Results—Willingness to Pay Higher Taxes for Local Action
Figure 2.8 Poll Results—Potential Factors That Would Increase Willingness to Pay Higher Taxes for Local Action
Figure 2.9 Poll Results—Importance of Local Stakeholder Involvement in Preparing for Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 2.10 Enhancing Community Readiness to Collectively Manage Risks
Figure 3.1 Spectrum of Processes for Collaboration and Consensus Building in Public Decisions
Figure 3.2 Tools for Public Engagement to Build Readiness
Figure 3.3 Tools for Joint Decision-Making about Adaptation
Figure 4.1 Sandy Neck
Figure 4.2 Barnstable Sea Level Rise Projections
Figure 4.3 Determinants of Risk (Modified from IPCC 2001)
Figure 4.4 Comparison of Wells and Cranston Sea Level Rise Projections
Figure 4.5 Process Steps
Figure 4.6 Example of Graphical Representation of Climate Matrix—Projections for Barnstable
Figure 4.7 Maps and Resources Collected
Figure 4.8a Cranston 2010 Flood Extent
Figure 4.8b Flooding in Dover
Figure 4.9 Projected Sea Level Rise and Impact of Sea Level Rise on the 100-Year Flood Plain in Cranston
Figure 4.10a Critical Facilities in Dover
Figure 4.10b Sensitive Populations in Dover
Figure 4.11 Adaptation Options
Figure 5.1 Workshop Results—Concern about Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 5.2 Workshop Results—How Significant Planning for Climate Change Should Be
Figure 5.3 Workshop Results—Responsibility for Preparing for Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 5.4 Workshop Results—Importance of Local Stakeholder Involvement in Preparing for Local Climate Change Impacts
Figure 5.5a Poll Results—How Significant Planning for Climate Change Should Be versus Will Be
Figure 5.5b Workshop Results—How Significant Planning for Climate Change Should Be versus Will Be
Figure 5.6 Workshop Results—Pre-Survey versus Post-Survey
Figure 5.7 Workshop Results—Confidence in Local Ability to Effectively Prepare for Climate Change Impacts
Figure 5.8 Workshop Results—Support for the Decision-Making Process Modeled
Figure 7.1 Three-Step Approach to Collective Risk Management
Table 2.1 Workshop Survey: What Should Local Response Be?
Table 4.1 General Circulation Models
Table 4.2 Example Climate Matrix—Projections for Barnstable
Table 5.1 Demographics: Public Polling Data versus Workshop Data
Table 7.1 Aggregate Public Poll and Workshop Survey Data
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We extend our thanks to our partners at the National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS): Tonna-Marie Surgeon Rogers and Ka