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2. Climate change: an emergency management perspective.
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CLIMATE change ,EMERGENCY management policy ,SCIENTIFIC literature ,GLOBAL warming ,ENVIRONMENTAL risk assessment ,NATURAL disasters ,GLOBAL environmental change ,DISASTERS ,MANAGEMENT - Abstract
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to suggest the utility of an emergency management perspective as a guide for policy makers as they respond to the challenges of global climate change. Design/methodology/approach - This analytical paper begins with a review of scientific literature in an effort to highlight the consensus about risks and vulnerabilities associated with climate change or global warming. Applying the terminology and techniques of natural disaster planning, preparedness, response, and mitigation to climate change, an emergency management perspective is articulated as a viable framework for policy development. Findings - Based on the evidence of a growing consensus in the scientific assessment of climate change, and the need for policy interventions to address the risks and vulnerabilities associated with it, the need for a unifying perspective for policymakers at all levels is apparent. An emergency management perspective is offered herein and holds the potential to provide a foundation for meeting that need. Research limitations/implications - An emergency management perspective for global climate change highlights the linkages between the challenges it poses and natural disaster preparedness in general. This may enable policy analysts to draw on the natural hazards literature and techniques as a guide for planning and policy development. Practical implications - The effort to create a consensus of approach that will enable policy makers to speak the same language, participate in the same analysis, contribute to the same dialogue, and pursue the same goals may be advanced by this discussion. Originality/value - An emergency management perspective on climate change may offer the potential for developing the least problematic model for policy makers to incorporate as they seek to make their efforts more consistent and more responsible in the face of a global challenge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2011
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3. Collaborative governance and environmental authority for adaptive flood risk: recreating sustainable coastal cities: Theme 3: pathways towards urban modes that support regenerative sustainability.
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Francesch-Huidobro, Maria
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EMERGENCY management policy , *FLOOD risk , *SUSTAINABLE development , *CLIMATE change , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy - Abstract
This paper explores the conceptual and practical linkages between climate change governance, diversity of authority and regenerative sustainability. It empirically explains such linkages in the context of adaptive flood risk management in the delta cities of Rotterdam and Hong Kong which are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. It addresses three questions: 1) if what is being witnessed is a transition to more inclusive, engaging, empowering, place-sensitive modes of urban climate governance gaining authority to deliver climate policy, how should these transitions be conceptualized and analysed ? 2) how do transitions towards collaborative governance and regenerative sustainability and the deployment of authority in these transitions serve manage the risk of flooding in places with different cultural and climatic settings? 3) what do different cases demonstrate in terms of the practical pathways and examples of implementation of regenerative sustainability ? Conceptual and empirical understandings are needed to assess whether these new, flexible forms of governance might ultimately challenge state-centred authority in the policy responses to climate change. This paper reveals that new governance systems are diluting, not supplanting, state authority. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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4. Financial instruments for managing disaster risks related to climate change.
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Wolfrom, Leigh and Yokoi-Arai, Mamiko
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CLIMATE change ,FINANCIAL management ,EMERGENCY management policy ,DISASTER insurance ,INSURANCE exchanges - Abstract
This article provides an overview of the potential implications of climate change for the financial management of disaster risks. It outlines the contribution of insurance to reducing the economic disruption of disaster events and policy approaches to supporting the penetration of disaster insurance coverage and the capacity of insurance markets to absorb disaster risks, including through the use of capital markets instruments and international co-operation in risk pooling. It concludes with a number of recommendations for improving the financial management of disaster risks in the context of climate change and some areas of further work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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