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The costs of adapting infrastructure to climate change David Satterthwaite vid Dodman ... In the ... more The costs of adapting infrastructure to climate change David Satterthwaite vid Dodman ... In the many nations where there is little or no government capacity to make the needed investments in building or adapting infrastructure, it is misleading to characterise &#x27;the problem&#x27; as only ...

A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can... more A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://ec.europa.eu).

Climatic Change

National Climate Change Risk Assessments (CCRAs) have a key role in informing priorities for adap... more National Climate Change Risk Assessments (CCRAs) have a key role in informing priorities for adaptation policy but face significant challenges due to multiple facets of risk and adaptation. Issues are especially pronounced for meeting goals of environmental sustainability due to the complex dynamics of socio-ecological systems. In practice, a CCRA can therefore differ from its original conceptual blueprint. These challenges are explored from a knowledge systems perspective, focusing on the role of stakeholders/policymakers, risk descriptors, methods, evidence sources, and scientists. A UK case study evaluates recent developments (CCRA3) including identification of policy urgency through adaptation shortfalls and its application to the natural environment. Important science-policy issues are also highlighted regarding inclusion of opportunities, systemic risks, residual risks, and risk tolerance. A general conclusion is that CCRAs inevitably leave open questions which lead back to th...

D4.1 Final report on relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services and values in case st... more D4.1 Final report on relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services and values in case studies (Part I) Valuation method Use type Applications ES valued Deliberative valuation: Uses focus groups to ask communities to make choices between different levels of provision of environmental goods. Use and nonuse value Applications to most types of ecosystem services Conservation priorities. Expert valuation Use and nonuse value Applications to most types of ecosystem services Mainly applicable to issues where scientific knowledge Is essential for judgement of alternatives. Multi-criteria evaluation: Mainly applicable when many attributes are affected from the policy action to be valued. Use and nonuse value Applications to most types of ecosystem services Conservation and environmental policy priorities. Benefit Transfers: Based on transferring values from similar policy settings in different locations. Use and nonuse value Applications to most types of ecosystem services Often used in hedonic valuation studies. The value of an ecosystem service should reflect the marginal utility to society of the service. For services that are traded, e.g. supply of crops, timber and in some cases water, market prices exist. If consumers are assumed to maximize their utility-a usual assumption in economics-the market prices of goods and services can be used as indicators of their marginal utility to consumers. This is the basic principle in economic valuation of goods and services, including the different ecosystem services (Johannsson, 1993; Freeman, 2003; Bateman et al., 2011). Thus, market prices can be used to value provisioning services that are traded, as shown in the first line of table 1.4. The market prices reflect the direct consumptive use value of the services consumed by households or enterprises. Ecosystem service MA classification CICES division/group Provisioning services: Timber production Fibre (timber and wood fuel) Materials/Biomass (timber) Freshwater fishing Food (capture fisheries and aquaculture) Nutrition/Biomass (freshwater fish and marine fish) Freshwater provision (quantity) Freshwater Nutrition / Water Regulating services: Water purification (quality) Water purification /waste treatment Mediation of waste, toxics and other nuisances / Mediation by biotic and ecosystems Water flow regulation (flood protection) Natural hazard regulation Mediation of flows / Liquid flows Mass flow regulation (erosion protection) Erosion regulation Mediation of flows / Mass flows Atmospheric regulation (carbon sequestration) Climate regulation Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions / Atmospheric composition and climate regulation Pest regulation Biological control Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions / Pest and disease control Pollination Pollination Maintenance of physical, chemical, biological conditions / Lifecycle maintenance, habitat & gene pool protection (pollination) Cultural services: Recreation (species-based) Recreation and ecotourism Physical and intellectual interactions with biota, ecosystems, and land-/seascapes / Physical and experiential interactions Landscape aesthetics Aesthetic values Physical and intellectual interactions with biota, ecosystems, and land-/seascapes / Intellectual and representative interactions (aesthetic)

Environmental Policy and Governance, 2017

Individual decision‐makers at different governance levels operate in social contexts, which means... more Individual decision‐makers at different governance levels operate in social contexts, which means that they sometimes need to compromise their personal values. Yet, this dissonance is rarely the direct target of empirical analyses of environmental decision‐making. We undertake a Q‐analysis of decision‐makers' personal perspectives and the perspectives they perceive to dominate in their decision‐making contexts. Our empirical analysis addresses biodiversity conservation, which has traditionally been justified with intrinsic value‐ and science‐based arguments. The arguments have recently been broadened with the concept of ecosystem services, highlighting human benefits and values. This evolving context is interesting because of the new rise of anthropocentric values, which can lead to decision‐makers experiencing dissonance. Our analysis of interviews with 43 biodiversity conservation decision‐makers from nine European countries reveals four personally held perspectives that highl...

Biodiversity and Conservation, 2016

Given the concern about biodiversity loss, there are a number of arguments used for biodiversity ... more Given the concern about biodiversity loss, there are a number of arguments used for biodiversity conservation ranging from those emphasising the intrinsic value of biodiversity to those on the direct use value of ecosystems. Yet arguing the case for biodiversity conservation effectively requires an understanding of why people value biodiversity. We used Q methodology to explore and understand how different conservation practitioners (social and natural science researchers, environmental non-Governmental organisations and decision-makers) in nine European countries argue for conservation. We found that there was a plurality of views about biodiversity and its conservation. A moral argument and some arguments around the intrinsic and ecological value of biodiversity were held by all stakeholder groups. They also shared the view that species valuation does not justify the destruction of nature. However, there were also some differences within and between the groups, which primarily reflected the espousal of either ecocentric or anthropocentric viewpoints. Our findings suggest that moral arguments and those around biodiversity's intrinsic and ecological value could potentially serve as a starting point for building consensus among conservation practitioners.

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2009

Ecosystem Services, 2014

A systematic literature review was undertaken to analyse the linkages between different biodivers... more A systematic literature review was undertaken to analyse the linkages between different biodiversity attributes and 11 ecosystem services. The majority of relationships between attributes and ecosystem services cited in the 530 studies were positive. For example, the services of water quality regulation, water flow regulation, mass flow regulation and landscape aesthetics were improved by increases in community and habitat area. Functional traits, such as richness and diversity, also displayed a predominantly positive relationship across the services, most commonly discussed for atmospheric regulation, pest regulation and pollination. A number of studies also discussed a positive correlation with stand age, particularly for atmospheric regulation. Species level traits were found to benefit a number of ecosystem services, with species abundance being particularly important for pest regulation, pollination and recreation, and species richness for timber production and freshwater fishing. Instances of biodiversity negatively affecting the examined ecosystem services were few in number for all ecosystem services, except freshwater provision. The review showed that ecosystem services are generated from numerous interactions occurring in complex systems. However, improving understanding of at least some of the key relationships between biodiversity and service provision will help guide effective management and protection strategies.

Plant genetic resources and climate change, 2014

This chapter discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the role of adaptation. S... more This chapter discusses the impacts of climate change on agriculture and the role of adaptation. Specifically, the chapter explores the following impacts of climate change on agriculture: increased CO2 concentrations, water availability, and pests and diseases. The chapter also includes reports of case studies on climate change impacts on wheat, rice and millet.

Assessing the Costs of Adaptation to Climate …, 2009

Page 92. Costing adaptation for natural ecosystems Pam Berry Page 93. Assessing the costs of adap... more Page 92. Costing adaptation for natural ecosystems Pam Berry Page 93. Assessing the costs of adaptation to climate change| 1 Summary The UNFCCC study is the first and only one attempting to estimate costs of adaptation in natural ecosystems. ...

Avoiding dangerous climate change AVOID is a DECC/Defra funded research programme led by the Met ... more Avoiding dangerous climate change AVOID is a DECC/Defra funded research programme led by the Met Office in a consortium with the Walker Institute, Tyndall Centre and Grantham Institute Review of Literature subsequent to IPCC AR4 AVOID is an LWEC accredited activity brought to you by CORE View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk provided by Kent Academic Repository AVOID WS1 Deliverable 2: Post AR4 Literature Review Key outcomes / non-technical summary This report provides a review of the most relevant recent literature in the areas of climate science, impacts of climate change and climate change economics, with a focus on post IPCC Fourth Assessment report work. It also provides information on the key research gaps which might have a major impact on mitigation decisions. • Climate science The AR4 provided more definite statements of human influence on the climate system, and subsequent work has strengthened that further. The AR4 also highlighted greater complexity in many of the physical systems that climate models attempt to simulate. A large amount of post-AR4 research has focussed on better understanding of physical processes, including highlighting where model improvements are needed and where they are most robust. Risk assessments can be made using the information presented to-date but many of these are likely to be refined with improved models during AR5. This may impact on mitigation targets and impact assessments. • Impacts There have been many papers published since the AR4 on water, agriculture and health impacts. Many of these have added case studies from areas previously poorly-represented-specifically Africa and Central and South America-but few offer new insights into the effects of climate policy on these impacts. For agriculture, the tone of the post-AR4 literature on agricultural impacts is more pessimistic than that of the AR4, largely due to an increased understanding of the role of pests, extreme events, and changes in ozone concentrations, on either increasing the adverse effects of climate change or offsetting the positive effects. In the field of health impacts there has not been a great deal of progress in looking at the combined effects of climate change and local air quality issues. A number of local assessments of future sea level, including changes in extremes, have been published since the AR4 and these have tried to deal with the current uncertainty in the climate projections of sea level rise. CONTENTS 1. INTRODUCTION 2. IMPLICATIONS OF THE REVIEW FOR POLICY MESSAGES AND MITIGATION NEGOTIATIONS 3. RECENT DEVELOPS IN CLIMATE SCIENCE, IMPACTS AND ECONOMICS 4. ASSESSMENT OF RESEARCH GAPS 5. CONCLUSIONS APPENDICES-DETAILED LITERATURE REVIEW A. CLIMATE SCIENCE A.1 Detection and Attribution of Climate Change A.2 Changes in Temperature and Rainfall Extremes A.3 Recent Changes in Arctic Sea Ice A.4 Sea Level Rise and Ice Sheets A.5 The Atlantic Ocean Meridional Overturning Circulation A.6 The Carbon Cycle A.7 Risk of Fire Activity A.8 Climate Sensitivity A.9 Reversibility of Climate Changes-Overshoot Scenarios B. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS B.1 Coastal System Impacts and Adaptation B.2 Ecosystems and Biodiversity B.3 Water Resources B.4 Agriculture and Food Security B.5 Human Health C. ECONOMICS

Nature-based solutions harness the power and sophistication of nature to turn environmental, soci... more Nature-based solutions harness the power and sophistication of nature to turn environmental, social and economic challenges into innovation opportunities. They can address a variety of societal challenges in sustainable ways, with the potential to contribute to green growth, 'future-proofing' society, fostering citizen well-being, providing business opportunities and positioning Europe as a leader in world markets. Nature-based solutions are actions which are inspired by, supported by or copied from nature. They have tremendous potential to be energy and resource-efficient and resilient to change, but to be successful they must be adapted to local conditions.

Assessing the Costs of Adaptation to Climate Change: …, 2009

Page 102. The costs and benefits of adaptation Chris Hope ... About the Grantham Institute for Cl... more Page 102. The costs and benefits of adaptation Chris Hope ... About the Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Imperial College London The Grantham Institute for Climate Change is committed to driving climate change related research and translating it into real world impact. ...

Habitat management for biodiversity conservation in Europe: The established approach "Starting fr... more Habitat management for biodiversity conservation in Europe: The established approach "Starting from the initial venal public reactions against the destruction of beautiful sites or the disappearance of lovely animals, we have ended with devoted professionals trying to apply solid biological conservation science to crude socioeconomic development strategies. The gap between is paved with all sorts of intermediate situations. Science is value free, but conservation as an applied science, is heavily value laden. Therefore, cultural and economic differences between the countries, as well as special administrative styles, have generated a varied scenario. The goals may be the same, but the approaches, manifold." (A. Machado, 1997). The above quote, although now ten years old, is still a fairly accurate reflection of the state of present day conservation biology in Europe and globally. Biological conservation has its roots in species protection: Traditionally, emphasis was placed primarily upon protecting particular species that were recognised to be somehow ´rare`, mainly birds and furry animals. Protecting nature was equated with protecting beautiful and aesthetically appealing species, in the knowledge that total extinction is irreversible. There was also some interest in protecting aesthetically appealing landscapes-the beginning of what would become National Parks. Then it was recognised that species were becoming extinct because their habitats are being destroyed. Now, the dilemma as to whether to use limited and usually inadequate human and financial resources to pursue the conservation of particular species or whether to invest in the management and protection of habitats that are of notable biological value remains a critical issue in practical conservation strategy. However, it is clear that in the end, both directions are essential for the protection of biological diversity, although now there is a general consensus that habitat protection and ecologically sound management are prerequisite for species conservation (e.g.

Progress in Physical Geography, 1994

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, 1996

The Geographical Journal, 1991

Future Changes in Potentially Suitable Climate Space for BAP Species. Walmsley, CA and Berry, PM ... more Future Changes in Potentially Suitable Climate Space for BAP Species. Walmsley, CA and Berry, PM and O'Hanley, JR (2007) Future Changes in Potentially SuitableClimate Space for BAP Species. Project report. UKCIP. The ...