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The need for bottom-up assessments of climate risks and adaptation in climate-sensitive regions
- Source :
- Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 503-511, Nature Climate Change 9 (2019) 7, Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 503. Nature Publishing Group
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- Studies of climate change at specific intervals of future warming have primarily been addressed through top-down approaches using climate projections and modelled impacts. In contrast, bottom-up approaches focus on the recent past and present vulnerability. Here, we examine climate signals at different increments of warming and consider the need to reconcile top-down and bottom-up approaches. We synthesise insights from recent studies in three climate-sensitive systems where change is a defining feature of the human-environment system. Whilst top-down and bottom-up approaches generate complementary insights into who and what is at risk, integrating their results is a much-needed step towards developing relevant information to address the needs of immediate adaptation decisions.
- Subjects :
- 0303 health sciences
Water and Food
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Computer science
Vulnerability
Climate change
Water en Voedsel
Top-down and bottom-up design
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
01 natural sciences
03 medical and health sciences
Taverne
Life Science
Adaptation (computer science)
Relevant information
Environmental planning
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
030304 developmental biology
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
GE Environmental Sciences
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1758678X and 17586798
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 503-511, Nature Climate Change 9 (2019) 7, Nature Climate Change, 9(7), 503. Nature Publishing Group
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....ff8a91ebcae9dd747f5a293a16479c01