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Climate Change and Risk Mitigation: Reducing Vulnerabilities & Enhancing Resilience

by Paul Barnes
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781800624139
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Cab International
  • Publisher Imprint: Cab International
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  • Pages: 192
  • Original Price: USD 130.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 617 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Global Warming & Climate Change

This book examines how expert-driven approaches to mitigating the impacts of climate variability alone are inadequate for addressing the challenges of related cascading crises. The work argues for a fundamental shift in framing risk mitigation options drawn from a range of different yet complementary perspectives on inclusive, participatory risk governance that engage community views alongside scientific expertise.Throughout, the authors advocate for breaking down disciplinary silos and embracing transdisciplinary collaboration. They emphasize the importance of community agency, stakeholder engagement, and integrating multiple forms of knowledge - scientific, organizational, and experiential - in climate adaptation planning.The volume explores this theme through diverse case studies and methodological approaches. Key chapters include an examination of Post-Normal Science approaches to climate adaptation decision making, ethical dilemmas facing disaster management leaders, and urban energy transitions in Cape Town's complex socio-political context. Other sections focus on urban resilience challenges ranging from environmental health impacts of increasing heat and humidity, holistic approaches to healthy cities that move beyond medical-focused solutions, and AI-enabled heat risk assessments in Indian cities that empower local communities. The book also critically examines Tokyo's resilience strategies, questioning whether expert-driven modernist approaches can adequately prepare communities for climate uncertainties.The book ultimately calls for transforming risk governance from centralized, technocratic decision making toward more adaptive, equitable approaches that recognize the complex interconnections between human settlements, environmental systems, and governance structures in a rapidly changing climate reality.

Barnes, Paul: - Paul Barnes (PhD) is the HEAL Network Senior Research, Policy, and Practice Fellow within the Centre for Environment and Population Health at Griffith University, Australia. He has over 28 years of experience as an applied academic and public sector manager focusing on emergency and operational risk management and policy development focused on disaster risk reduction and resilience building in institutions and communities impacted by natural and socio-technical threats. He serves as a visiting Professorial Fellow attached to the Torrens Resilience Initiative at Flinders University, Adelaide and was formerly a senior fellow at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute Canberra, where he established and led the institute's Risk and Resilience Program. He is also a Council Member of the International Military Council on Climate and Security (Washington DC) and a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network on Risk and Resilience.

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