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Assessing the Vulnerability of Coastal Communities to Extreme Storms: The Case of Revere,MA., USA 总被引:6,自引:1,他引:6
Clark George E. Moser Susanne C. Ratick Samuel J. Dow Kirstin Meyer William B. Emani Srinivas Jin Weigen Kasperson Jeanne X. Kasperson Roger E. Schwarz Harry E. 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》1998,3(1):59-82
Climate change may affect the frequency, intensity, and geographic distribution of severe coastal storms. Concurrent sea-level
rise would raise the baseline of flooding during such events. Meanwhile, social vulnerability factors such as poverty and
disability hinder the ability to cope with storms and storm damage. While physical changes are likely to remain scientifically
uncertain into the foreseeable future, the ability to mitigate potential impacts from coastal flooding may be fostered by
better understanding the interplay of social and physical factors that produce human vulnerability. This study does so by
integrating the classic causal model of hazards with social, environmental, and spatial dynamics that lead to the differential
ability of people to cope with hazards. It uses Census data, factor analysis, data envelopment analysis, and floodplain maps
to understand the compound social and physical vulnerability of coastal residents in the city of Revere, MA, USA.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
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Adaptation to climate change in the Northeast United States: opportunities, processes, constraints 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Susanne C. Moser Roger E. Kasperson Gary Yohe Julian Agyeman 《Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change》2008,13(5-6):643-659
Scientific evidence accumulating over the past decade documents that climate change impacts are already being experienced in the US Northeast. Policy-makers and resource managers must now prepare for the impacts from climate change and support implementing such plans on the ground. In this paper we argue that climate change challenges the region to maintain its economic viability, but also holds some opportunities that may enhance economic development, human well-being, and social justice. To face these challenges and seize these opportunities effectively we must better understand adaptation capacities, opportunities and constraints, the social processes of adaptation, approaches for engaging critical players and the broader public in informed debate, decision-making, and conscious interventions in the adaptation process. This paper offers a preliminary qualitative assessment, in which we emphasize the need for (1) assessing the feasibility and side effects of technological adaptation options, (2) increasing available resources and improving equitable access to them, (3) increasing institutional flexibility, fit, cooperation and decision-making authority, (4) using and enhancing human and social capital, (5) improving access to insurance and other risk-spreading mechanisms, and (6) linking scientific information more effectively to decision-makers while engaging the public. Throughout, we explore these issues through illustrative sectoral examples. We conclude with a number of principles that may guide the preparation of future adaptation plans for the Northeast. 相似文献
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