Enhancing the Practical Utility of Risk Assessments in Climate Change Adaptation
- Submitting institution
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Manchester Metropolitan University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 257181
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.3390/su10051399
- Title of journal
- Sustainability
- Article number
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- First page
- 1399
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 5
- ISSN
- 2071-1050
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/10/5/1399
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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A - Architecture
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This article emerged from the H2020-funded Climate Resilient Cities and Infrastructure (RESIN) project. The article is original as it represents one of the firsts attempt to work through the implications of a risk-based climate change conceptual framework, as advanced by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for practical application in urban planning. The paper argues that spatial risk assessment methodologies can identify the highest risks and the locations where impacts are most likely, so enabling the prioritisation of climatic and non-climatic risks. This enables decision-makers to consider the different pathways available to them under conditions of extreme uncertainty. However, the paper cautions that the extent to which this can advance climate change adaptation depends on the interpretation of risk elements by practitioners. This paper is significant because it provides the conceptual underpinnings for the European Climate Risk Typology which compares climate risk in European urban areas (methodological and results papers are currently being written). The conceptual framing was further developed at international conferences including the Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP, 2017, 2018) and ICLEI’s Resilient Cities (2018). Connelly took the lead writing role for this conceptual paper and compared examples of other risk assessments from across Europe. In addition, Connelly led on the development of vulnerability indicators for the European Climate Risk Typology (https://european-crt.org/). The paper has been downloaded over 2000 times (as at 25/4/2020) and cited 6 times.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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