In Harm's Way: How Communities Are Addressing Key Challenges of Building Climate Resilience - Softcover

Plastrik, Mr Peter; Cleveland, Mr John

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798592291388

Publisher: Independently published, 2021

Synopsis

For the past four years we have assessed and reported on what it takes for communities to build their resilience to what’s coming. We assumed that vast changes in climate will happen, that the vector of the risk is nearly certain and accelerating. Our critical question has been, how rapidly and effectively will local resilience be strengthened? When will local readiness for climate changes intersect with and protect against the increasing existence of climate hazards and risks?Working with various research partners, we have interviewed more than 100 climate-resilience leaders in scores of local and state governments around the US and read cities’ climate-adaptation plans and numerous expert studiesand news articles. This allowed us to generate multiple reports and a chapter in "Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities," the book we wrote about cities and climate change, which presented frameworks forunderstanding each challenge and recommendations for how communities might respond, individually and collectively. Among the ideas developed and presented in "In Harm's Way":• There are seven capacities that communities need to develop so they can undertake effective preparation for climate change.• An effective system for city climate resilience finance would integrate three elements: city transaction capabilities, ramped up state and federal government policies, new financial, insurance, and real estate market capacities.• The eight strategies communities are using to pay for resilience, which we called “Playbook 1.0,” are evident, but there is much that this initial approach cannot accomplish; a Playbook 2.0 will have to be developed and activated. • State governments have six ways to build a state-local financial system for investing in community-level resilience strengthening.• There is an emerging roadmap for generating community acceptance of managed retreat as a part of building a city’s climate resilience.Over the years, not enough urgency and resources have been dedicated to making these and other resilience-building approaches happen. It’s critical to accelerate the emergence of a professional practice for urbanclimate resilience.This book takes up that task.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798592291388
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272