Lo caelli, B. | K an n in en , M . | B ro kh au s, M . | C o ler, C ..P. | M u rd iyrso, D . | S an to o, H . e most prominent international responses to climate change focus on mitigation (reducing the accumulation of greenhouse gases) rather than adaptation (reducing the vulnerability of society and ecosystems). However, with climate change now inevitable, adaptation is gaining importance in ...

Mitigating disaster impact requires identifying risk factors. The increased vulnerability of the physically fragile is easily understood. Less obvious are the socio-economic risk factors, especially within relatively affluent societies. Hurricane Katrina demonstrated many of these risks within the United States. These factors include poverty, home ownership, poor English language proficiency, e...

Species are experiencing a suite of novel stressors from anthropogenic activities that have impacts at multiple scales. Vulnerability assessment is one tool to evaluate the likely impacts that these stressors pose to species so that high-vulnerability cases can be identified and prioritized for monitoring, protection, or mitigation. Commonly used semi-quantitative methods lack a framework to ex...

• Stakeholders see great potential in PEDs for energy poverty reduction. Energy mitigation needs to be included from the onset. PED replication can synergistically address both decarbonization and mitigation. Increasing levels of makes more financially viable as tools. More consideration given social dimension decisions on new creation. 100 Positive Districts (PEDs) are created Europe by 2025, ...

One of the important tracks leading to natural risk prevention, disaster mitigation or the reduction of losses due to natural hazards is the vulnerability assessment of an “at-risk” region. The majority of researchers propose to assess vulnerability according to an expert evaluation of several qualitative characteristics, scoring each of them usually using three ratings: low, average, and high....

Identifying risks in flood-prone areas is necessary to support risk management decisions. This research was conducted establish a vulnerability model of flood hazards the city Pontianak. The based on scoring and weighting biophysical factors. AHP method logical formulations were used model. result showed that accuracy by determine floods 80% Pontianak City. using level 84%. Kappa value 1 76.7%....

Reliable electrical power supply is a prerequisite for the modernsociety, and if it fails, it can cause severe consequences in terms of economiclosses and even fatalities. It is thus important to analyse the vulnerabilityof the electric power system. Network analysis has previously been used toanalyse the vulnerability of electric transmission systems. Recent events inSweden...

As the world’s largest industry, the insurance sector is both an aggregator of the impacts of climate change and a market actor able to play a material role in decreasing the vulnerability of human and natural systems. This article reviews the implications of climate change for insurers and provides specific examples of insurance-relevant synergisms between adaptation and mitigation in the buil...

A number of studies conducted since the late 1970s have evaluated state and federal responses to drought in the United States. Each of these studies identified a number of key issues and impediments that needed to be addressed to improve the nation’s ability to cope with and prepare for future episodes of drought. A content analysis of these studies was performed to identify common threads in t...