Protective behaviors regarding coastal flooding risk in a context of climate change
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Effects of Climate Change on Exposure to Coastal Flooding in Latin America and the Caribbean
This study considers and compares several of the most important factors contributing to coastal flooding in Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) while accounting for the variations of these factors with location and time. The study assesses the populations, the land areas and the built capital exposed at present and at the middle and end of the 21st century for a set of scenarios that include...
متن کاملClimate change and coastal environmental risk perceptions in Florida.
Understanding public perceptions of climate change risks is a prerequisite for effective climate communication and adaptation. Many studies of climate risk perceptions have either analyzed a general operationalization of climate change risk or employed a case-study approach of specific adaptive processes. This study takes a different approach, examining attitudes toward 17 specific, climate-rel...
متن کاملEcological Risk Assessment in the Context of Global Climate Change
Changes to sources, stressors, habitats, and geographic ranges; toxicological effects; end points; and uncertainty estimation require significant changes in the implementation of ecological risk assessment (ERA). Because of the lack of analog systems and circumstances in historically studied sites, there is a likelihood of type III error. As a first step, the authors propose a decision key to a...
متن کاملLaypeople's Risky Decisions in the Climate Change Context: Climate Engineering as a Risk-Defusing Strategy?
This study explores the development of laypeople’s preferences for newly emerging climate engineering technology (CE). It examines whether laypeople perceive CE to be an acceptable back-up strategy (plan B) if current efforts to mitigate CO2 emissions were to fail. This idea is a common justification for CE research in the scientific debate and may significantly influence future public debates....
متن کاملFarmers’ Perception Regarding Impact of Climate Change on Wheat Crop Production in Layyah District-Pakistan
Pakistan is at 28th amongst the countries that are going to be hurt badly by climate change. It falls in ten major wheat-producing countries of the world in terms of area, production and yield per hectare. Global warming, as a result of climate change, may negatively affect morphological characters of wheat. The present study was undertaken in district Layyah to find out the impact of climate c...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Advances in Climate Change Research
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1674-9278
DOI: 10.1016/j.accre.2020.12.001