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Impact assessments and policy responses to sea-level rise in three US states: An exploration of human-dimension uncertainties.
- Source :
- Global Environmental Change Part A: Human & Policy Dimensions; Dec2005, Vol. 15 Issue 4, p353-369, 17p
- Publication Year :
- 2005
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Abstract
- Abstract: Uncertainties in the human dimensions of global change deeply affect the assessment and responses to climate change impacts such as sea-level rise (SLR). This paper explores the uncertainties in the assessment process and in state-level policy and management responses of three US states to SLR. The findings reveal important political, economic, managerial, and social factors that enable or constrain SLR responses; question disasters as policy windows; and uncover new policy opportunities in the history of state coastal policies. Results suggest that a more realistic, and maybe more useful picture of climate change impacts will emerge if assessments take more seriously the locally embedded realities and constraints that affect individual decision-makers’ and communal responses to climate change. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
- Subjects :
- CLIMATE change
CLIMATOLOGY
HAZARDOUS geographic environments
CRISIS management
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09593780
- Volume :
- 15
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Global Environmental Change Part A: Human & Policy Dimensions
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 19041028
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.08.002