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DOI	10.1007/s10584-020-02821-3
	Informing UK governance of resilience to climate risks: improving the local evidence-base
	Howarth C.; Morse-Jones S.; Kythreotis A.; Brooks K.; Lane M.
发表日期	2020
ISSN	0165-0009
英文摘要	International assessments of evidence on climate change (e.g. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) or national climate change risk assessments (e.g. UK Climate Change Risk Assessment, CCRA) do not offer a sufficiently granular perspective on climate impacts to adequately inform governance of resilience to climate risks at the local level. Using an analysis of UK decision-makers managing and responding to heatwaves and flood risks, this paper argues how more robust local evidence is needed to inform decision-making regarding adaptation options for enhancing local resilience. We identify evidence gaps and issues relating to local climate change impacts, including sources and quality of evidence used, adequacy and accessibility of evidence available, ill-communicated evidence and conflicting or misused evidence. A lack of appreciation regarding how scientific evidence and personal judgement can mutually enhance the quality of decision-making underpins all of these gaps. Additionally, we find that the majority of evidence currently used is reductively based upon socio-economic and physical characteristics of climate risks. We argue that a step change is needed in local climate resilience that moves beyond current physical and socio-economic risk characterisation to a more inclusive co-constitution of social and politically defined climate risks at the local scale that are better aligned with the local impacts felt and needs of stakeholders. © 2020, The Author(s).
英文关键词	Climate risk; Communication; Evidence; Local governance; Resilience
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Decision making; Floods; Risk assessment; Climate change risks; Climate impacts; Decision makers; Intergovernmental panel on climate changes; Local impacts; Physical characteristics; Scientific evidence; Socio-economics; Climate change
来源期刊	Climatic Change
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147316
作者单位	Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, United Kingdom; Collingwood Environmental Planning, 50 Westminster Bridge Road, London, United Kingdom; School of Geography and Lincoln Centre for Water and Planetary Health, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom; Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom; School of Psychology, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom; School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Howarth C.,Morse-Jones S.,Kythreotis A.,et al. Informing UK governance of resilience to climate risks: improving the local evidence-base[J],2020.
APA	Howarth C.,Morse-Jones S.,Kythreotis A.,Brooks K.,&Lane M..(2020).Informing UK governance of resilience to climate risks: improving the local evidence-base.Climatic Change.
MLA	Howarth C.,et al."Informing UK governance of resilience to climate risks: improving the local evidence-base".Climatic Change (2020).