Angela Ordóñez Llancce , Yirang Lim , Theresa Audrey O. Esteban , Joep van Leeuwen , Johan Ninan
{"title":"From Silos to Synergy: Conceptualizing an integrated infrastructure design for climate resilience in Rotterdam","authors":"Angela Ordóñez Llancce , Yirang Lim , Theresa Audrey O. Esteban , Joep van Leeuwen , Johan Ninan","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100691","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100691","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In recent years, municipalities have been recognised for their crucial role in protecting cities from climate change impacts by adopting mitigative and adaptive strategies to enhance climate resilience. However, anchoring these strategies demands multiple interventions, which are often hindered by the current siloed organization of departments and disciplines. An integrated infrastructure design approach (IIDA) can co-create a process that converges sectors, disciplines, and actors’ interests to tackle this challenge. To this end, this research explores how municipalities can effectively implement IIDA to enhance climate-resilient infrastructures. The city of Rotterdam served as a case study involving a thematic analysis of 21 interviews with internal actors of the municipality. This study identified 19 key factors influencing a municipality’s effectiveness in using an integrated design approach to enhance climate resilience. These influential factors belong to six different dimensions: Human Capacity, Organisational Culture, Governance, Communication, Project Development Process and Finance. The findings suggest that it is essential that actors within municipalities have soft skills such as proactivity and open-mindedness for collaboration. Furthermore, it is necessary to foster an innovative and collaborative culture to enable the development of pilot projects. This, in turn, helps update standards and scale up implementation by aligning integration at the three management levels: strategic, program, and project. Based on the findings, we recommend establishing a multi-dimensional baseline, setting up a communication strategy and tools, build human and institutional capacity through pilots and living labs. This can help municipalities implement an integrated infrastructure design in their organisation, offering a promising future in designing climate-resilient infrastructures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100691"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143166703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adam J.P. Smith , Asher Minns , Robert J. Nicholls , Anna Beswick , Katie Jenkins , Sandy Avrutin , Craig Robson
{"title":"Reflections on delivering place-based climate risk data in support of local adaptation decisions","authors":"Adam J.P. Smith , Asher Minns , Robert J. Nicholls , Anna Beswick , Katie Jenkins , Sandy Avrutin , Craig Robson","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100701","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100701","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Strengthening the adaptive capacity of the UK, via national plans and local-scale interventions, requires easy access to climate risk information and adaptation scenarios. Stakeholder engagement can ensure the right balance between top-down prescriptive modelling, and bottom-up, solution-focussed and lived experience approaches. National-scale, spatially-explicit, integrated climate risk frameworks can help inform the needs of localised climate risk assessments, but there are barriers to local actors accessing the information.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100701"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143680996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging climate resilience capacities by (un)learning from transdisciplinary research projects","authors":"Simona Pedde , Reginald Grendelman , Lydia Cumiskey , Denise McCullagh , Joanne Vinke-de Kruijf , Katharina Hölscher","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2024.100675","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2024.100675","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climate adaptation in Europe faces a significant implementation gap: while high-level policies set ambitious resilience goals, local knowledge integration and policy uptake remain slow due to entrenched institutional routines. Reflecting on lessons from three transdisciplinary European projects, this article aims to provide a fresh perspective on how climate resilience can be effectively enhanced through projects that facilitate institutional (un)learning. We tailor a climate resilience capacities framework to diagnose stewarding, unlocking, transforming and orchestrating capacities that enable coordinated shifts from risk-averse to risk-embracing adaptation. These capacities emerge from, and generate, processes that actively dismantle obsolete learnings while fostering novel, resilience-oriented behaviors and routines. Key examples include climate resilience pathways and the empowerment of champions and institutional entrepreneurs, an integrated approach and neutral facilitation and the formation of networks such as Communities of Practice and Real-World Labs. We propose that, while already successful ex-post, embedding this thinking at the conceptualization phase can further accelerate the transition to adaptive societies capable of embracing uncertainty and enhancing climate resilience.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100675"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143166702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel Burbidge , Christopher Paling , Rachel M. Dunk
{"title":"Adapting Latin American and Caribbean airports to a changing climate: Impacts, challenges and solutions","authors":"Rachel Burbidge , Christopher Paling , Rachel M. Dunk","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2024.100684","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2024.100684","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region climate change effects such as higher temperatures, sea level rise and stronger storms are already threatening critical airport infrastructure and operations, with this exposure increasing as climate change accelerates. Given the social and economic criticality of airports to the region, it is vital that they adapt and build resilience to the resulting impacts. This paper presents the first evaluation of the climate risk assessment and adaptation status of airports in the LAC region. Drawing on a survey of airport professionals from 35 LAC airports and airport groups (representing a total of 54 airports) it finds that although 80% are already experiencing climate change effects, just 14% have carried out a climate change risk assessment to establish what impacts they may face and only 3% (one airport) have developed a climate adaptation plan. This is a significant exposure-adaptation gap which it is essential to address. This urgently requires (i) enhanced awareness raising of climate effects and impacts; (ii) increased provision of data and guidance; and (iii) development and promotion of capacity building mechanisms such as risk assessment tools and training. A crucial role is identified for national governments and sector bodies to continue and augment support for airports in the region to adapt. While this study focuses on the LAC region, the recommendations are likewise applicable for supporting adaptation action by airports in other regions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100684"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for addressing the interconnectedness of early warning to action and finance to strengthen multiscale institutional responses to climate shocks and disasters","authors":"Emmanuel M.N.A.N. Attoh, Giriraj Amarnath","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100689","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100689","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Early warning systems (EWS) inform decision making and planning in response to climate shocks and catastrophic disasters. However, the current disaster response mechanism falls short due to the fragmented warning, action, and finance systems, coupled with inadequate institutional collaboration, coordination and inclusive engagement for effective anticipatory action. This study addresses this challenge by introducing an Early Warning, Action and Finance (AWARE) platform to promote anticipatory action through multistakeholder engagement. Data from literature reviews, expert surveys, and stakeholder workshops in Senegal, Zambia and Sri Lanka helped identify the platform’s needs and priorities. The study draws upon theories of technological frames, interpretative flexibility, boundary objects, social learning, collaborative governance and adaptive co-management to conceptualize a framework for AWARE. Results demonstrate the potential of AWARE as a boundary object that fosters social engagement, active involvement, open communication, collaboration, and shared commitment to safeguarding lives and livelihoods. Analysis of technological frames and interpretative flexibility underscores the role of social learning in shaping the design and user features that promote multiscale institutional responses to disasters. AWARE aligns with the priorities of the Sendai Framework and emphasizes system thinking, co-production of knowledge, and the need for context-specific solutions to enhance anticipatory action. Recognizing the limitations of one-size-fits-all EWS, the AWARE framework acknowledges contextual factors as barriers to implementation. The study underscores the importance of integrated EWS and collaborative efforts to overcome implementation barriers and improve anticipatory action outcomes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100689"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143168423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Livelihood diversification among women farmers in Nigeria’s flood-resilient drylands","authors":"Ummi Khalthum Mohammed , Nicola Favretto","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100708","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100708","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Jigawa State, Nigeria, faces increasing vulnerability to recurrent floods, highlighting the need for alternative socio-economic strategies to enhance livelihood diversification and strengthen the resilience of the most vulnerable groups, particularly women farmers. This study explores the role of livelihood diversification in flood resilience through three key questions: (1) How frequent are floods in northern Nigeria, and what are their perceived impacts? (2) What livelihood diversification strategies do women farmers employ? and (3) What factors enable or hinder the adoption of diversified livelihoods? Data was collected via focus group discussions with women farmers from three communities, supplemented by semi-structured interviews with community leaders and institutional stakeholders, and analysed using coding and content analysis. Results on reported perceptions show that from 2013 to 2023 communities experienced an average of seven flood events, causing significant damage to homes and farmland. Women farmers diversify livelihoods by rotating fast-growing crops (e.g., beans, tomatoes, cassava), planting economic trees, raising livestock, and engaging in off-farm activities like petty trading. Enabling factors include building farmer and institutional stakeholders’ capacity, improving climate data access, supporting alternative income activities, strengthening agricultural extension, and providing infrastructural and financial support. However, barriers such as limited access to capital, agricultural insurance, and inequalities in resource distribution among women, along with cultural dynamics and conflicts, hinder progress. Awareness-raising and capacity-building are essential to overcoming these challenges and addressing social barriers. Additionally, limited institutional coordination and inadequate budgetary allocations exacerbate difficulties in achieving effective livelihood diversification for flood resilience. By revealing the factors influencing the resilience and vulnerability of rural women amid recurring floods in dryland Africa, the lessons learned help bridge key knowledge gaps and highlight essential enablers for strengthening adaptive capacities in flood-prone areas.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100708"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143837829","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating institutional climate finance barriers in selected SADC countries","authors":"Kamleshan Pillay , Shanice Mohanlal , Blaise Dobson , Bhim Adhikari","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100694","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100694","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Access to climate finance continues to inhibit the transition of southern African economies to a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. This is compounded by the region’s exposure to climate risks alongside several other factors, such as increasing population growth, high levels of inequality and unemployment, and limited fiscal resources. There remains only a high level of understanding of climate finance barriers across the region. The research provides an in-depth understanding of the institutional barriers that limit climate finance actors in selected southern African countries from mobilising greater climate finance flows and the drivers responsible for these barriers. At an operational level, institutions face significant challenges in developing vital track records that meet the necessary fiduciary requirements of climate finance sources. This challenge is exacerbated by the bureaucracy related to project approvals, stakeholder coordination (both internal and external) and institutional capacity and awareness. One of the primary barriers to the mobilisation of and access to climate finance for mitigation and adaptation in the region is the lack of clear policies and regulatory and legal frameworks or, where policies do exist, a lack of policy enforcement. The barriers presented in this research can be addressed by robust and decisive action by climate finance actors and the presence of an enabling environment that prioritises climate action. However, climate finance mobilisation will likely continue to lag if political will across the region on climate change is not increased in the short term.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"47 ","pages":"Article 100694"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143394475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of entrepreneurial orientation on farmer’s adoption of crop diversification under climate change: Evidence from rural Pakistan","authors":"Karim Abbas, Yueji Zhu, Qian Yang","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Climatic shocks cause severe risks and uncertainties to agricultural production in developing countries. Crop diversification is an important strategy to improve farmers’ livelihoods and agricultural productivity during climate change. Existing studies have explored many factors influencing farmers’ decisions to adopt crop diversification practices. However, the role of entrepreneurship orientation (EO) in farmer’s adoption of crop diversification has not received enough attention. This study specifies EO in three dimensions (risk-taking, innovativeness, proactiveness) and first, it examines the impact of EO on farmers’ adoption of crop diversification practices, using the instrumental variable-Probit (IV-Probit) model based on the data collected from farmers in Punjab, Pakistan. The results reveal that EO significantly increases farmers’ adoption of crop diversification practices. Specifically, risk-taking and innovativeness promote farmers’ crop diversification, but proactiveness has a negative impact. We also find that market orientation mediates between EO and farmer’s crop diversification. EO enhances farmers’ market orientation which imposes a positive impact on the adoption of crop diversification. The findings underscore the importance of EO in farmers’ adaptation to climate change in agricultural production. Policymakers can better design training programs to improve farmer’s knowledge and skills from the EO perspectives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100709"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143911464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic marketing capacities for climate change resilience: A framework for business-to-business sectors","authors":"Maryam Asgharinajib , Davood Feiz , Morteza Maleki MinBashRazgah , Azim Zarei , Shahryar Sorooshian","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100700","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100700","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines business-to-business (B2B) marketing capabilities about climate change and aims to fill gaps in the strategic marketing literature. Using a grounded theory approach and conducting in-depth interviews with B2B company executives in Iran, three key capabilities were identified: climate capacity building, communication catalyst, and Climatic Greenism. Climate capacity building focuses on risk awareness and strengthening infrastructure, communication catalyst focuses on mobilizing sustainable narratives and engaging with stakeholders, and Climatic Greenism emphasizes supply chain innovation and product development. Findings suggest that these capabilities synergistically contribute to strengthening the resilience and sustainability of companies. This research adds to the scientific discourse on B2B marketing and climate change. It provides practical insights to help B2B companies, especially in developing countries, adapt their strategies to environmental conditions and ensure sustainable performance.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100700"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143619708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zakia Sultana , Heleen L.P. Mees , Bishawjit Mallick , Peter P.J. Driessen , Ajay Bailey
{"title":"Everyone’s Adaptation: Exploring individual heat stress adaptation","authors":"Zakia Sultana , Heleen L.P. Mees , Bishawjit Mallick , Peter P.J. Driessen , Ajay Bailey","doi":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100712","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.crm.2025.100712","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Due to rising temperatures, heat stress affects nearly everyone’s way of living. Adapting to heat stress is very individual, but our understanding of the process and conditions that influence such individual adaptation remains fragmented and limited. To address this knowledge gap, we introduce a novel conceptual framework, “Everyone’s Adaptation (EoA),”. This framework integrates insights from a range of inter- and <em>trans</em>-disciplinary concepts and theories from the individual to the collective level to explore the conditions under which individuals of all ages, genders, ethnicities, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds can adapt to heat stress. We argue that a better understanding of the key enabling and constraining conditions at individual and community levels, and fair and equitable governance, can inform sustainable, effective, and fair climate change adaptation policies. In this paper, we operationalize the EoA framework in the context of heat stress adaptation. We propose this framework can also be adapted for adaptation to other extreme climatic events in various local contexts.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54226,"journal":{"name":"Climate Risk Management","volume":"48 ","pages":"Article 100712"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143891926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}