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DOI	10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2014.05.003
	Hurricane Sandy and adaptation pathways in New York: Lessons from a first-responder city
	Rosenzweig C.; Solecki W.
发表日期	2014
ISSN	0959-3780
卷号	28
英文摘要	Two central issues of climate change have become increasingly evident: Climate change will significantly affect cities; and rapid global urbanization will increase dramatically the number of individuals, amount of critical infrastructure, and means of economic production that are exposed and vulnerable to dynamic climate risks. Simultaneously, cities in many settings have begun to emerge as early adopters of climate change action strategies including greenhouse gas mitigation and adaptation. The objective of this paper is to examine and analyze how officials of one city - the City of New York - have integrated a flexible adaptation pathways approach into the municipality's climate action strategy. This approach has been connected with the City's ongoing response to Hurricane Sandy, which struck in the October 2012 and resulted in damages worth more than US$19 billion. A case study narrative methodology utilizing the Wise et al. conceptual framework (see this volume) is used to evaluate the effectiveness of the flexible adaptation pathways approach in New York City. The paper finds that Hurricane Sandy serves as a "tipping point" leading to transformative adaptation due to the explicit inclusion of increasing climate change risks in the rebuilding effort. The potential for transferability of the approach to cities varying in size and development stage is discussed, with elements useful across cities including the overall concept of flexible adaptation pathways, the inclusion of the full metropolitan region in the planning process, and the co-generation of climate-risk information by stakeholders and scientists. © 2014.
英文关键词	Adaptation pathways; Cities; Climate change; Resilience; Transformation
学科领域	adaptation; climate change; conceptual framework; ecosystem resilience; global change; greenhouse gas; hazard assessment; Hurricane Sandy 2012; planning process; risk; spatiotemporal analysis; strategic approach; urbanization; New York [United States]; United States
语种	英语
scopus关键词	adaptation; climate change; conceptual framework; ecosystem resilience; global change; greenhouse gas; hazard assessment; Hurricane Sandy 2012; planning process; risk; spatiotemporal analysis; strategic approach; urbanization; New York [United States]; United States
来源期刊	Global Environmental Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/117570
作者单位	NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, United States; CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities and Department of Geography, Hunter College - City of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10021, United States; Columbia University Center for Climate Systems Research, 2880 Broadway, New York, NY 10025, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rosenzweig C.,Solecki W.. Hurricane Sandy and adaptation pathways in New York: Lessons from a first-responder city[J],2014,28.
APA	Rosenzweig C.,&Solecki W..(2014).Hurricane Sandy and adaptation pathways in New York: Lessons from a first-responder city.Global Environmental Change,28.
MLA	Rosenzweig C.,et al."Hurricane Sandy and adaptation pathways in New York: Lessons from a first-responder city".Global Environmental Change 28(2014).