气候变化领域集成服务门户(CCPortal): Coastal homeowners in a changing climate

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DOI	10.1007/s10584-018-2257-4
	Coastal homeowners in a changing climate
	Javeline D.; Kijewski-Correa T.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0165-0009
起始页码	259
结束页码	274
卷号	152 期号:2
英文摘要	As climate changes, coastal homeowners are potentially crucial actors in reducing the risks to property and human life from rising seas and increased hurricane activity. Absent strict, enforceable regulations mandating retrofitting of existing homes or major changes in homeowner insurance requirements, coastal resilience in a changing climate will largely reflect private, voluntary decisions of millions of individuals. However, research is scarce on the extent of structural vulnerabilities among US coastal homes and the mitigation measures that homeowners are taking or plan to take. Research devoted to disaster preparedness routinely neglects the specific actions of homeowners as consumers of structural mitigation products, despite the fact that such mitigation is the most cost-effective means to reduce losses. We attempt to fill this important gap with a new Coastal Homeowner Survey and indices designed to measure structural vulnerabilities and homeowner actions and intentions to address vulnerabilities. We conducted a pilot study of 662 respondents in one of the most frequently exposed US coastal communities, New Hanover County, North Carolina. We find that, on average, homes are minimally protected, with homeowners taking few actions to address structural vulnerabilities and not considering taking further action. We also find that the perceived cost of mitigation cannot sufficiently explain the lack of action, implying that other factors are at play. Subsequent research will use the remaining pilot survey data to analyze correlates of these indices to inform private and public sector stakeholders on how to incentivize risk reduction through structural mitigations. © 2018, Springer Nature B.V.
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Cost effectiveness; Disaster prevention; Surveys; Changing climate; Coastal communities; Cost-effective means; Disaster preparedness; Hurricane activity; Mitigation measures; Risk reductions; Structural vulnerability; Climate change; climate change; disaster management; environmental risk; homeowner; homeownership; hurricane; public sector; stakeholder; vulnerability; New Hanover County; North Carolina; United States; United States
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/147550
作者单位	Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2060 Jenkins Nanovic Halls, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States; Environmental Change Initiative, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States; Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences and Keough School of Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame, 2130F Jenkins Nanovic Halls, Notre Dame, IN 46556, United States
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Javeline D.,Kijewski-Correa T.. Coastal homeowners in a changing climate[J],2019,152(2).
APA	Javeline D.,&Kijewski-Correa T..(2019).Coastal homeowners in a changing climate.Climatic Change,152(2).
MLA	Javeline D.,et al."Coastal homeowners in a changing climate".Climatic Change 152.2(2019).