Elaborating a systems methodology for cascading climate change impacts and implications.

ABSTRACT: New research is drawing attention to the potential for climate change to generate cascading impacts and implications across linked human-environment systems, requiring closer accounting of these interactions to anticipate the emergence of surprises and feedbacks. However, there is little practical guidance for those interested in characterising, identifying or assessing cascades, and few empirical examples. In this paper, we elaborate a systems-based methodology to identify and evaluate cascading climate change impacts and implications. We illustrate its application using the case of a participatory process with urban infrastructure managers, facing the legacy effects of damaging earthquakes and the prospect of future climate change. The results show the proposed approach and visualisation

SUBMITTER: Cradock-Henry NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7184528 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature