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Loss and Damage from Climate Change : Concepts, Methods and Policy Options.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mechler, Reinhard.
Other Authors: Bouwer, Laurens M., Schinko, Thomas., Surminski, Swenja., Linnerooth-Bayer, Joanne.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Climate Risk Management, Policy and Governance Series
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword I: Perspective from Saint Lucia
  • Foreword II: Perspective of Germany
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Setting the Stage: Key Concepts, Challenges and Insights
  • 1 Science for Loss and Damage. Findings and Propositions
  • 1.1 Understanding and Reviewing the Evidence for Advancing Science and Policy
  • 1.2 Evolution of the Policy Discourse
  • 1.3 The Research Perspective: Definitions and Concepts
  • 1.3.1 Defining Losses and Damages
  • 1.3.2 Loss and Damage in the Context of Climate and Disaster Risk Management
  • 1.4 A Broadening Research Landscape-Chapter Summaries
  • 1.4.1 Setting the Stage: Key Concepts, Challenges and Insights
  • 1.4.2 Critical Issues Shaping the Discourse
  • 1.4.3 Research and Practice: Reviewing Methods and Tools
  • 1.4.4 Geographic Perspectives and Cases
  • 1.4.5 Policy Options and Other Response Mechanisms for the LampD Discourse
  • 1.5 From Findings to Propositions for the Loss and Damage Debate
  • 1.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 2 The Ethical Challenges in the Context of Climate Loss and Damage
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Two Approaches to Distinguish Between Adaptation and LampD
  • 2.3 Neither Compensation Nor Liability Under the UNFCCC
  • 2.4 Categorising LampD Measures to Differentiate Responsibilities
  • 2.5 Differentiating Responsibilities for LampD Measures
  • 2.6 Conclusions
  • References
  • 3 Observed and Projected Impacts from Extreme Weather Events: Implications for Loss and Damage
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.1.1 Impacts from Extreme Weather
  • 3.1.2 Extreme Weather Impacts and Loss and Damage
  • 3.2 Observed Changes in Weather Extremes
  • 3.3 Observed Impacts Based on Disaster Loss Records
  • 3.3.1 Loss Data and Normalisation
  • 3.3.2 Analysis of Loss Trends
  • 3.3.3 Interpretation of Drivers of Losses
  • 3.4 Projections of Future Extreme Weather Losses.
  • References
  • 4 The Risk and Policy Space for Loss and Damage: Integrating Notions of Distributive and Compensatory Justice with Comprehensive Climate Risk Management
  • 4.1 Tackling Climate-Related Risk in a Contested Policy Context
  • 4.2 Building Blocks of a Principled Framework for Loss and Damage
  • 4.2.1 Risk Identification: Analytics for Defining Avoidable and Unavoidable Losses and Damages
  • 4.2.2 Climate Attribution of Unavoidable Losses and Damages: Establishing a Role for Climate Justice
  • 4.2.3 Risk Evaluation: Considering Risk Preference and Risk Tolerance for Identifying Soft and Hard Adaptation Limits
  • 4.3 An Actionable Framework for Outlining the Risk and Policy Options Space for Loss and Damage
  • 4.3.1 The Loss and Damage Risk and Options Space
  • 4.4 Identifying the Space for Loss and Damage: An Application
  • 4.4.1 From Risk Identification to Risk Evaluation: Risk Layering and Risk Tolerance
  • 4.5 Implications for Research and Policy
  • References
  • Critical Issues Shaping the Discourse
  • 5 Attribution: How Is It Relevant for Loss and Damage Policy and Practice?
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Attribution in the Context of LampD: Why Is Attribution a Critical Issue?
  • 5.2.1 Recurring Questions: Is This Really About Anthropogenic Climate Change?
  • 5.2.2 Questions with Political Implications: Controversy and Ambiguity in the Negotiations
  • 5.2.3 Perspectives from Practitioners: Is It More Pragmatic to Avoid Isolating Anthropogenic Climate Change Impacts from Other Losses and Damages?
  • 5.2.4 A Challenge for Science-Policy Dialogue
  • 5.3 The Science of Attribution: What Kind of Evidence Is Available About the Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on LampD?
  • 5.3.1 Attribution of Climate Change and Extreme Weather Events to Anthropogenic Forcing
  • 5.3.2 Attribution of Climate Change Impacts.
  • 5.3.3 Attributing Anthropogenic Forcing to Regions, Countries, and Sectors
  • 5.3.4 Assessing and Analysing Losses and Damages from Disasters
  • 5.4 Policy Implications: How Might Attribution Science Be Applied to Support Actions to Address Losses and Damages?
  • 5.4.1 Catalysing Action
  • 5.4.2 Providing Evidence for Liability and Compensation
  • 5.4.3 Informing the Distribution of Adaptation or LampD Funding
  • 5.4.4 Analysing Drivers of LampD to Inform Practical Actions to Avert, Minimise, and Address Losses and Damages
  • 5.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 6 The Politics of (and Behind) the UNFCCC's Loss and Damage Mechanism
  • 6.1 Foundations for an International Relations' Contribution to the Debate
  • 6.2 Positioning of LampD in the UNFCCC Negotiations
  • 6.3 Actors and Positions in the LampD Debate
  • 6.3.1 Developing Countries and Their Representative Groups
  • 6.3.2 Developed Countries
  • 6.3.3 NGOs
  • 6.3.4 The Private Sector and the Insurance Industry
  • 6.4 The LampD Negotiation Process Through the Lenses of IR Theories
  • 6.4.1 Neorealism
  • 6.4.2 Liberalism
  • 6.4.3 Constructivism
  • 6.5 From Theory to Practice: Next Steps and Key Questions for Moving the LampD Discourse Forward
  • References
  • 7 Legal Responses to Climate Change Induced Loss and Damage
  • 7.1 Introduction and Preliminary Notes
  • 7.2 National Laws
  • 7.2.1 Public Law Litigation
  • 7.2.2 Private Law Litigation
  • 7.3 Regional and International Human Rights Law
  • 7.4 Customary International Law
  • 7.4.1 The Obligation of States Not to Cause Serious Environmental Harm
  • 7.4.2 State Responsibility Following a Breach of the No-Harm Principle
  • 7.4.3 Relationship Between the Climate Regime and the No-Harm Principle
  • 7.5 The International Climate Law Regime
  • 7.5.1 An Ambivalent Recognition of Responsibilities
  • 7.5.2 The Workstream and Mechanism on Loss and Damage.
  • 7.6 Discussion and Conclusions
  • References
  • 8 Non-economic Loss and Damage and the Warsaw International Mechanism
  • 8.1 Introduction
  • 8.2 NELD-Causal Pathways and Examples
  • 8.3 Conceptualising NELD
  • 8.3.1 Context-Dependence
  • 8.3.2 Incommensurability
  • 8.4 Developing Solutions
  • 8.4.1 Avoiding and Reducing NELD
  • 8.4.2 Responding to Unavoided NELD
  • 8.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 9 The Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services and Resulting Losses and Damages to People and Society
  • 9.1 Introduction
  • 9.2 Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Role of Ecosystem Services
  • 9.3 Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services-Current Knowledge
  • 9.4 Case Study: Multi-annual Drought in the Drylands of the Sahel
  • 9.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 10 Displacement and Resettlement: Understanding the Role of Climate Change in Contemporary Migration
  • 10.1 Introduction
  • 10.2 Defining and Measuring Migration
  • 10.2.1 Definitions
  • 10.2.2 Measurement
  • 10.3 Understanding Resettlement
  • 10.4 Case Studies of Environmental Migration
  • 10.4.1 Sea-Level Rise in Pacific Island States
  • 10.4.2 Cyclonic Storms
  • 10.4.3 The Desertification of West Africa and the Ascendance of Boko Haram
  • 10.4.4 The Deforestation of the Southern Cone and the Urbanisation of the Campesino
  • 10.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • Research and Practice: Reviewing Methods and Tools
  • 11 The Role of the Physical Sciences in Loss and Damage Decision-Making
  • 11.1 Introduction
  • 11.2 LampD from a Physical Science Point of View-The Challenges of Assessing the Risk
  • 11.2.1 Observed Hazard
  • 11.2.2 Projected Changes in Hazard
  • 11.3 Challenges for LampD Decision-Making
  • 11.4 Conclusions
  • References
  • 12 Integrated Disaster Risk Management and Adaptation
  • 12.1 Introduction: Integrated Climate Risk Management in the Loss and Damage Context.
  • 12.2 Climate Risk Assessment-Case Studies Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh City
  • 12.3 Cost-Benefit and Multi-criteria Analysis of Risk Management Options-Case Studies from Ho Chi Minh City and The Netherlands
  • 12.4 Individual (Household) Level Natural Disaster Risk Reduction-Case Studies Germany and Mexico
  • 12.5 Natural Disaster Insurance and Incentives for Risk Reduction-Case Study Germany
  • 12.6 Design of Adaptation Pathways with Policy Makers-Case Studies New Zealand and Bangladesh
  • 12.7 Synthesis
  • References
  • 13 Exploring and Managing Adaptation Frontiers with Climate Risk Insurance
  • 13.1 Introduction
  • 13.2 Decision-Making Under Climate Risks
  • 13.3 Insurance Related Instruments as Navigation Tools for Adaptation Frontiers
  • 13.3.1 Insurance as Part of a Risk Signalling Mechanism
  • 13.3.2 Improving Ex-Ante Decision Making with Insurance
  • 13.3.3 Insurance as a Support Tool for Actors to Remain in the Tolerable Risk Space
  • 13.4 The Need for Comprehensive Risk Management and the Limits of Insurance: Seven Principles to Design Effective Pro-poor Insurance Products
  • 13.4.1 Limits of Insurance
  • 13.4.2 Seven Principles to Design Effective Pro-poor Insurance Solutions
  • 13.5 Conclusions
  • References
  • 14 Integrated Assessment for Identifying Climate Finance Needs for Loss and Damage: A Critical Review
  • 14.1 Introduction
  • 14.2 Estimation of Residual Damages in Economic Integrated Assessment Modelling
  • 14.2.1 IAM-Methods and Models
  • 14.2.2 IAM Mechanics: Relation Between Adaptation Expenditures, Loss and Damage and Residual Costs
  • 14.3 Estimating Residual Damages as a Measure of Loss and Damage
  • 14.3.1 Model Set-Up
  • 14.3.2 Results
  • 14.3.3 Implications of Higher Emissions and Greater Climate Impacts on Residual Damages
  • 14.4 Discussion of Results.
  • 14.5 Uncertainties in the Estimation of Future Damages from Climate Change in IAMs.

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