Climate services for climate risk management and urban adaptation
| Main Authors: | Zuccaro, Giulio, Leone, Mattia, Mysiak, Jaroslav, Lefebre, Filip, Votsis, Athanasios, Ruuhela, Reija, Witt, Christian |
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| Format: | info Proceeding eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2019
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3338182 |
Daftar Isi:
- Climate Services are emerging worldwide as an essential tool to bridge the advancement in climate science and earth observations with a variety of operational fields in the domains of disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation (CCA). There is a growing need to harmonize risk and impact assessment modelling methodologies in order to increase the potential for use of scientific results by decision-makers to streamline national to local DRR and CCA policies. An integrated modelling approach should provide a detailed impact quantification on selected elements at risk (e.g. population, buildings, transport infrastructure, economic sectors, etc.) under the effect of extreme weather events in context of climate change, based on high resolution climate projections and analyses.A large share of global climate risk is concentrated in urban areas. Cities are vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of the high density of people, built infrastructure, and economic activity, but also because urban areas shape their own climate, amplifying climate extremes such as excessive heat and flooding. Sustainable urban and health planning can offer solutions, and it is important to understand, how physical and socioeconomic processes co-determine the exposure and vulnerability of populations, economy, and infrastructure to the impacts of climate extremes.