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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"climate risk management"”.
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Addressing climate change: Insights from New Zealand’s insurance companies
Climate change triggers extreme weather events globally, challenging the insurance industry’s climate risk management efforts. In New Zealand, the insurance sector is on the brink of financial instability due to the recent upswing in the frequency and severity of natural disasters. As these risks …
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Frames and games : testing a public health orientation to climate adaptation planning
Current urban climate adaptation planning efforts tend to focus on protecting a city's physical assets from potential climate-related disasters, with an increasing emphasis on enhancing resilience, or building places that can absorb and withstand climatic shocks. Scholars and practitioners have …
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Empathy and Self-efficacy Contributions to Water Resilience and the Role of a Serious Game
… drinking water, and fears of water security and climate change continue to grow. The concept of "water resilience" may help address these issues by improving water security through climate risk management, yet societal acceptance still remains a barrier. Knowing what motivates citizens to support …
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Multi-hazard risk assessment methodology for European coastal cities
The focus of this thesis is on the risk assessment of multiple climate-related hazards in European coastal cities, a crucial issue given the intensifying impacts of climate change. European coastal cities are particularly vulnerable to a variety of climate-related hazards, such as sea-level rise, …
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Mirror, mirror : fairness and justice in climate geoengineering
Climate geoengineering seems an increasingly likely prospect as the gap between current mitigation action and that needed to avoid dangerous climate change remains substantial. Climate change raises fundamental questions of justice with respect to future generations, the poor and vulnerable in the …
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Climate finance instruments and Kenyan agriculture
… equivalents into the atmosphere which leads to climate change. Some of the negative impacts of climate change include increased frequency of flooding and drought. These lead to loss of soil and crucial soil nutrients which affects agricultural production leading to food insecurity, increased …