ORCID Profile
0000-0002-4825-9797
Current Organisation
University of Southampton
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Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 06-2023
Abstract: Climatic and anthropogenic changes appear to be driving the emergence of new ecosystem and human health risks. As new risks emerge, and the severity or frequency of known risks change, we ask: what evidence is there of past adaptations to emergent risks? What scientific and policy processes lead to adaptive solutions that minimise the impacts of these events, and draw out opportunities? We identify science and policy lessons learned from coping with, and responding to, the sudden arrival of brown macroalgae (pelagic sargassum) that has proliferated across the tropical Atlantic since 2011. Drawing on an evidence base developed from a systematic search of literature relating to sargassum seaweed, and using event timelines and word clouds, we provide an analysis of lessons learned from a case study of adaptive responses across three continents to an emergent risk over the course of a decade. We reflect on successes and failures as well as opportunities taken in building adaptive capacity to address the risk in four key domains: policy, knowledge and evidence, monitoring and early warning, and technology and valorisation. Failures include: lack of environmental risk registries missed opportunities to share monitoring data and lack of a shared approach to manage the risk. Successes include: development of national management strategies open-access knowledge hubs, networks and webinars sharing information and best practice semi-operational early advisory systems using open access remote sensing data numerous innovations customising clean-up and harvesting equipment, and research and development of new uses and value-added products.
Publisher: American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)
Date: 2017
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-08-2008
DOI: 10.1057/DEV.2008.32
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-08-2014
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2344
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-06-2022
Publisher: Resilience Alliance, Inc.
Date: 2017
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.SCITOTENV.2018.03.368
Abstract: To better anticipate potential impacts of climate change, erse information about the future is required, including climate, society and economy, and adaptation and mitigation. To address this need, a global RCP (Representative Concentration Pathways), SSP (Shared Socio-economic Pathways), and SPA (Shared climate Policy Assumptions) (RCP-SSP-SPA) scenario framework has been developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report (IPCC-AR5). Application of this full global framework at sub-national scales introduces two key challenges: added complexity in capturing the multiple dimensions of change, and issues of scale. Perhaps for this reason, there are few such applications of this new framework. Here, we present an integrated multi-scale hybrid scenario approach that combines both expert-based and participatory methods. The framework has been developed and applied within the DECCMA
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-07-2015
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Location: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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