IPCC_Managing Risks of Extreme Events.pdf - Climate Access

Climate Change: New Dimensions in Disaster Risk, Exposure, Vulnerability, and ResilienceChapter 1Table of ContentsExecutive Summary ...................................................................................................................................271.1. Introduction................................................................................................................................291.1.1. Purpose and Scope of the Special Report .........................................................................................................................291.1.2. Key Concepts and Definitions ............................................................................................................................................301.1.2.1. Definitions Related to General Concepts............................................................................................................................................301.1.2.2. Concepts and Definitions Relating to Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change .............................................341.1.2.3. The Social Construction of Disaster Risk.............................................................................................................................................361.1.3. Framing the Relation between Adaptation to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management.....................................371.1.4. Framing the Processes of Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change .............................................381.1.4.1. Exceptionality, Routine, and Everyday Life .........................................................................................................................................381.1.4.2. Territorial Scale, Disaster Risk, and Adaptation...................................................................................................................................391.2. Extreme Events, Extreme Impacts, and Disasters ......................................................................391.2.1. Distinguishing Extreme Events, Extreme Impacts, and Disasters ......................................................................................391.2.2. Extreme Events Defined in Physical Terms ........................................................................................................................401.2.2.1. Definitions of Extremes.......................................................................................................................................................................401.2.2.2. Extremes in a Changing Climate ........................................................................................................................................................401.2.2.3. The Diversity and Range of Extremes .................................................................................................................................................401.2.3. Extreme Impacts.................................................................................................................................................................411.2.3.1. Three Classes of Impacts ....................................................................................................................................................................411.2.3.2. Complex Nature of an Extreme ‘Event’...............................................................................................................................................421.2.3.3. Metrics to Quantify Social Impacts and the Management of Extremes..............................................................................................421.2.3.4. Traditional Adjustment to Extremes....................................................................................................................................................431.3. Disaster Management, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Risk Transfer ..........................................441.3.1. Climate Change Will Complicate Management of Some Disaster Risks ...........................................................................461.3.1.1. Challenge of Quantitative Estimates of Changing Risks.....................................................................................................................461.3.1.2. Processes that Influence Judgments about Changing Risks ...............................................................................................................461.3.2. Adaptation to Climate Change Contributes to Disaster Risk Management......................................................................471.3.3. Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change Share Many Concepts, Goals, and Processes................481.4. Coping and Adapting .................................................................................................................501.4.1. Definitions, Distinctions, and Relationships.......................................................................................................................511.4.1.1. Definitions and Distinctions................................................................................................................................................................511.4.1.2. Relationships between Coping, Coping Capacity, Adaptive Capacity, and the Coping Range............................................................511.4.2. Learning..............................................................................................................................................................................531.4.3. Learning to Overcome Adaptation Barriers .......................................................................................................................541.4.4. ‘No Regrets,’ Robust Adaptation, and Learning.................................................................................................................56References .................................................................................................................................................5626