Climate Resilience Solutions: Integrating Science into Decision-Making

A special issue of Climate (ISSN 2225-1154).

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions to this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Climate, entitled “Climate Resilience Solutions: Integrating Science into Decision-Making”.

Climate change, manifested in the form of change in rainfall patterns, temperatures, expansion of droughts, and extreme climatic events across space and time may lead to numerous consequences in human-environment systems (HES). This may weaken society’s ability to sustain human well-being. Emerged in the field of ecology, resilience thinking recognizes that the HES should evolve to manage for change and disturbances and maintain its original state. There is an increasing interest in the concept of resilience within the context of climate change. It bridges the social and environmental sciences to society’s capacity to adapt and respond to change in climatic condition across space and time. So, understanding the factors that promote resilience, along with the linkages and feedback in HES, is crucial to informing public policies that aim to build resilience.

The aims of this Special Issue is to contribute to an ongoing discussion on climatet resilience, including strategies, choices and actions to reduce the negative consequences of climate change impact on HES. Specifically, this Special Issue aims to assess climate change impacts and generate cutting-edge knowledge, methods, and procedures of climate resilience solutions at the local levels. Papers with focus on specific challenges in dealing with surprises, uncertainty and shocks in urban, coastal, agricultural, and natural systems will be of interest to this Special Issue. We will also welcome papers that examine the relationship between specific ecological, socio-economic and institutional factors that collectively help build resilience of a system in quesrtion.

Dr. Netra Chhetri
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Keywords

  • climate resilience
  • climate resilience solutions
  • system resilience
  • human-environment systems (HES)
  • human wellbeing
  • socio-economic
  • institutional factors

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Analysis of the Temporal Evolution of Climate Variables Such as Air Temperature and Precipitation at a Local Level: Impacts on the Definition of Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change
by Leonel J. R. Nunes
Climate 2022, 10(10), 154; https://doi.org/10.3390/cli10100154 - 18 Oct 2022
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Climate change is a global phenomenon that can affect neighbouring territories and the communities residing there in different ways. This fact, which is associated with the specificities of each of the territories, leads to the need to implement adaptive measures to address the [...] Read more.
Climate change is a global phenomenon that can affect neighbouring territories and the communities residing there in different ways. This fact, which is associated with the specificities of each of the territories, leads to the need to implement adaptive measures to address the new reality imposed by climate change and to create more resilient territories and communities capable of facing this new paradigm. The more these measures are adjusted to the specificities of the territories and their communities, the more efficient they will be. Thus, it is essential to have a thorough understanding of the evolution of the climate on the local scale and the real needs of the resident populations. To identify these needs, a survey was conducted, and it was found that the dominant opinion of all respondents, comprising citizens residing in Portugal, was that climate change can affect geographically close territories in different ways. In the present work, the municipality of Guimarães, located in the north of Portugal, was used as a case study, where a comparative analysis was carried out to assess the period between the current climate, characterized by the period of 1971–2021, and the climate of 100 years ago, characterized by the decade of 1896–1905, to determine trends for the variables of air temperature and precipitation. It was found that the temperature in the winter months increased, with less uniformity in the distribution of precipitation throughout the year. These differences in the air temperature and precipitation, as variables, lead to the need to plan adaptive measures that can be implemented so that the territory and its communities become more resilient to climate change. Full article
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Dear Colleagues,

 

We are pleased to invite submissions to this Special Issue of the MDPI journal Climate, entitled “Climate Resilience Solutions: Integrating Science into Decision-Making”.

 

Climate change, manifested in the form of change in rainfall patterns, temperatures, expansion of droughts, and extreme climatic events across space and time may lead to numerous consequences in human–environment systems (HES). This may weaken society’s ability to sustain human well-being. Emerged in the field of ecology, resilience thinking recognizes that the HES should evolve to manage for change and disturbances and maintain its original state. There is an increasing interest in the concept of resilience within the context of climate change. It bridges the social and environmental sciences to society’s capacity to adapt and respond to change in climatic condition across space and time. So, understanding the factors that promote resilience, along with the linkages and feedback in HES, is crucial to informing public policies that aim to build resilience.

The aims of this Special Issue is to contribute to an ongoing discussion on climatet resilience, including strategies, choices and actions to reduce the negative consequences of climate change impact on HES. Specifically, this Special Issue aims to assess climate change impacts and generate cutting-edge knowledge, methods, and procedures of climate resilience solutions at the local levels. Papers with focus on specific challenges in dealing with surprises, uncertainty and shocks in urban, coastal, agricultural, and natural systems will be of interest to this Special Issue. We will also welcome papers that examine the relationship between specific ecological, socio-economic and institutional factors that collectively help build resilience of a system in quesrtion.

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