Climate Change and Risk Mitigation
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Climate Change and Risk Mitigation

Reducing Vulnerabilities & Enhancing Resilience

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eBook - ePub

Climate Change and Risk Mitigation

Reducing Vulnerabilities & Enhancing Resilience

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Contributors
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Breaking Silos: Multi-Sectoral Approaches to Mitigating the Cascading Impacts of Climate and Natural Hazards
  10. 2 Who Decides? Choosing Adaptation Tools for Climate Risk: A Post-normal Science Problem
  11. 3 Ethics in Climate Risk Mitigation and Policy Development
  12. 4 Addressing the Wicked Problem of Systemic Disaster Risk in the Anthropocene
  13. 5 Is Better Policy Enough? Governance of Urban Energy Transitions in the Global South
  14. 6 Hotter and Damper: Dealing with the Environmental Health Impacts of Changing Weather and Climate
  15. 7 Healthy, Resilient Cities
  16. 8 Sustaining Urban Food Gardens for Community Resilience: A Case Study of the Langa Agrihub, Cape Town, South Africa
  17. 9 Adaptive Urban Resilience Using Artificial Intelligence
  18. 10 Tokyo’s Perpetual Resilience Project: Between Local Knowledges and Universal Modernist Concepts
  19. Conclusion: Cloudy with ‘More’ than a Chance of Chaos
  20. Index
  21. Back Cover