Facilitating Climate Change Responses A Report of Two Workshops on Knowledge from the Social and Behavioral Sciences (2010) / Chapter Skim
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5 Climate Change Adaptation: The State of the Science
5 Climate Change Adaptation: The State of the Science
Pages 75-84
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Kasperson stated that he might be the most skeptical person about whether the adaptation community knows as much as it needs to know to assist societal efforts in this domain. He hopes the workshop can separate what is known from what participants would like to know.
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Insights and ideas come out of science and go through a process of mediation by many diverse actors, with some of them disappearing and others being elevated in importance before decision makers ultimately act. There are simple webs, with strong linkages of science and decision making through what have been called boundary organizations.
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Because that convention was focused on greenhouse gas emissions, it emphasized pollution control and mitigation, following the model used for addressing ozone depletion in the Montreal protocol. Thus, the scientists who advised politicians focused attention on pollution control.
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Rich people choose amenities over risk reduction, the poor often have little choice, and government assistance to victims of disasters can create moral hazards. What is known about flood insurance, and is there a credible assessment of how it works?
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He reminded the audience not to forget mitigation. Adaptation choices may have important near-term benefits by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and generating other desired outcomes.
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The idea of measuring vulnerability presumes a threshold of risk beyond which a population is vulnerable. There may be parts of a population that are vul TABLE 5-1 Decision-Making Questions Issue Key Question Outcome of Indecision Cost Who bears the costs of Costs may be shared unevenly in adaptation?
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Adger spoke about the potential and limitations of markets for responding to climate change. Critical adaptation needs concern water resources, property loss, human health, nature conservation, and cultural heritage.
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national flood insurance program is nothing like what the industry would create; it is more of an income distribution program. Helen Ingram asked about how to shift the focus from particular disasters to the larger, systemic picture.
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Andrews said that Florida, for example, has been maladaptive in having the state become the primary insurer of coastal property when market rates became politically unacceptable, whereas in North Carolina, state policy has struck a less morally hazardous balance that combines increased coastal insurance rates with a safety valve to assess all state property owners for shares of losses above a high threshold of economic catastrophe. Burton suggested that mitigation allows many more options at an individual level, whereas most adaptation requires collective action, at least at the community level.
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"Social inertia" is a mismatch between what a group, such as the workshop participants, believes to be the right choices and what society is doing.
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