Table of Contents: Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK.

Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK.

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Bibliographic Details
:	Dessai, Suraje.
TeilnehmendeR:	Lonsdale, Kate. Lowe, Jason. Harcourt, Rachel.
Place / Publishing House:	Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2024. ©2024.
Year of Publication:	2024
Edition:	First edition.
Language:	English
Physical Description:	1 online resource (228 pages)
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Table of Contents:

Intro
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme
1 Introduction
2 A Brief History of UK Climate Research and Policy on Adaptation
3 The Science Plan and its Implementation
4 Book Roadmap
References
2 Climate Resilience: Interpretations of the Term and Implications for Practice
1 Introduction
2 Broad or Narrow
3 Operational or Place-based
4 Implications for Building Resilience in the UK
5 What Next?
References
Part I Undertaking Resilience Research
3 Towards a Step Change in Co-Production for Climate Resilience
1 Introduction
2 What is Co-Production?
3 What Works Well
3.1 Gathering Community Experience
3.2 Sustaining Engagement Throughout
3.3 Getting Creative with Storytelling
3.4 Balancing Power and Managing Expectations
3.5 Experimenting with Upscaling
4 Emerging Challenges and Opportunities
4.1 Focus on the Process, Not Just Outputs
4.2 Revise Funding Structures and Timescales
4.3 Promote New Measures of Success
4.4 Invest in Multidisciplinary Approaches
5 Conclusions
References
4 Learning from Organisational Embedding for Climate Resilience
1 Introduction
2 The Embedded Researcher Scheme
2.1 Funded Projects and Outcomes
2.2 A Note on Embedding During a Global Pandemic
3 How did researchers and hosts experience the ER scheme?
4 What Helped and What Hindered in Achieving Effective Outcomes?
4.1 Being 'on the Inside' of the Organisation
4.2 Flexibility in the Research Workplan
4.3 Openness to Learning on Both Sides
4.4 Seniority and Length of Service Are Less Important Than Personality and Outlook
4.5 Adequate Commitment from ER and Host
5 Conclusions
References
Part II Managing Climate Risks.
5 Putting Climate Resilience in Its Place: Developing Spatially Literate Climate Adaptation Initiatives
1 Introduction
2 Local Places
2.1 ClimaCare
2.2 CLandage
3 Neighbourhoods
3.1 MAGIC
3.2 Creative Climate Resilience
4 Cities
4.1 London Climate Action
4.2 Meeting Urban User Needs
4.3 Manchester Climate Ready
5 Regions
5.1 Once Upon a Time
6 Conclusions
References
6 Learning from Arts and Humanities Approaches to Building Climate Resilience in the UK
1 Introduction
2 Importance of Place
3 Generating Dialogue
4 Understanding Community and Policy Impacts
5 Conclusions
References
Part III Tools for Resilience Building
7 What Have We Learned from the Climate Service Projects Delivered Through the UK Climate Resilience Programme?
1 Introduction
2 Overview of Projects
3 Key Learnings
3.1 Enabling Environment
3.1.1 Provider Organisations
3.1.2 User Organisations
3.1.3 Wider Context
3.2 User Trust
3.3 Scalability
4 Implications for Future Climate Services Landscape
4.1 Incentivisation
4.1.1 Service Providers
4.1.2 Users
4.1.3 Context (Regulators)
4.2 Context (Funders)
4.3 Scaling up
4.3.1 Service Providers
4.3.2 Context (Funders)
5 Conclusions
References
8 What Insights Can the Programme Share on Developing Decision Support Tools?
1 Introduction
2 Survey and Review of Decision Support Tools
2.1 Web-Based Interactive Tools
2.2 Infographics and Climate Hazard Information
2.3 Data Outputs
3 Development of Decision Support Tools
4 Usability of Decision Support Tools
5 Barriers in Decision Support Tool Development
6 Conclusions
References
Part IV Understanding and Characterising Risk
9 Improved Understanding and Characterisation of Climate Hazards in the UK
1 Introduction.
2 Advances in Hazard Data
3 Advances in Methods for Characterising Hazards
4 Improved Physical Understanding of Hazards
5 Future Hazards
6 Distilling Climate Information
7 Conclusions
References
10 Future Changes in Indicators of Climate Hazard and Resource in the UK
1 Introduction
2 Changes in Hazard and Resource Across the UK
2.1 Climate Projections and the Construction of Climate Scenarios
2.2 Natural Environment and Assets
2.3 Infrastructure
2.4 Health, Communities and the Built Environment
3 How Have the Results Been Used so Far?
4 Gaps and Challenges
5 Conclusions
References
11 What Has Been Learned About Converting Climate Hazard Data to Climate Risk Information?
1 Introduction
2 Progress in Climate Risk Quantification-Overview
2.1 Risks and Indicators
3 Areas of Progress in Methodological Development
3.1 Spatially Coherent Event Set Generation Versus Local Return Periods
3.2 Exposure and Vulnerability Data
3.3 New Datasets for Hazard, Risk, Vulnerability and Exposure
3.4 Treatment of Uncertainties
4 Gaps and Remaining Challenges
4.1 Hazards
4.2 Exposure and Vulnerability
5 Conclusions
References
12 Note on Delivering Impact
1 Introduction
2 Ensure Regular Dialogue with End Users Throughout a Project to Ensure All Outputs Are Relevant and Usable
3 Develop a Detailed Timeline for Engagement and Dissemination Activities Capitalising on Periods of Heightened Subject Interest
4 Identify Ways of Measuring 'Engagement' and 'Impact' as Early in a Project as Possible
5 Summarise Findings into Bite-Size, Visually Appealing and Easily Relatable Formats
6 Build Solid Relationships with End Users to Help Disseminate Findings Directly to Target Audiences
7 Adopt Creative and Community-Based Engagement Activities
References
13 Afterword.
1 Ways of Working and Community Building
2 Novel Evidence
3 Reflections on Developing a Transdisciplinary Research Programme
4 Research Gaps and Future Directions
4.1 Transdisciplinary Research
4.2 Boundary-Spanning Skills
4.3 Managing the Risk
4.4 Co-producing Climate Services
4.5 Hazard to Risk
5 Concluding Thoughts
References
Project References
Index.

Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK.

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