Conceptualizing holistic community resilience to climate events: Foundation for a climate resilience screening index

ABSTRACT The concept of resilience has been evolving over the past decade as a way to address the current and future challenges nations, states, and cities face from a changing climate. Understanding how the environment (natural and built), climate event risk, societal interactions, and governance r...

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Published in:Geohealth 2017-06, Vol.1 (4), p.151-164
Main Authors: Summers, J. Kevin, Smith, Lisa M., Harwell, Linda C., Buck, Kyle D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptive management
climate
Climate change
Climate Impact
Climate Impacts
climate resilience
Disaster Resilience
Drought
Ecosystems
Environmental management
Environmental risk
Extreme weather
Global Change
holistic
Hydrology
Impacts of Global Change
Literature reviews
Management decisions
Natural Hazards
Policy Sciences
Preparedness and Planning
Quality of life
recoverability
Regional Climate Change
Regional Planning
Resilience
Sustainability
Volcano/Climate Interactions
Volcanology
Vulnerability
Wildfires
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Summary:ABSTRACT The concept of resilience has been evolving over the past decade as a way to address the current and future challenges nations, states, and cities face from a changing climate. Understanding how the environment (natural and built), climate event risk, societal interactions, and governance reflect community resilience for adaptive management is critical for envisioning urban and natural environments that can persist through extreme weather events and longer‐term shifts in climate. To be successful, this interaction of these five domains must result in maintaining quality of life and ensuring equal access to the benefits or the protection from harm for all segments of the population. An exhaustive literature review of climate resilience approaches was conducted examining the two primary elements of resilience—vulnerability and recoverability. The results of this review were examined to determine if any existing frameworks addressed the above five major areas in an integrated manner. While some aspects of a resilience model were available for existing sources, no comprehensive approach was available. A new conceptual model for resilience to climate events is proposed that incorporates some available structures and addresses these five domains at a national, regional, state, and county spatial scale for a variety of climate‐induced events ranging from superstorms to droughts and their concomitant events such as wildfires, floods, and pest invasions. This conceptual model will be developed in a manner that will permit comparisons among governance units (e.g., counties) and permit an examination of best reliance practices. Key Points Conceptual model of community resilience to climate events Climate event resilience must be holistic and include vulnerability and recoverability This conceptual model is being populated for application for the U.S. at the county level
ISSN:2471-1403
2471-1403
DOI:10.1002/2016GH000047