A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Kang, Youngeun; Park, Chang-Sug

doi:10.3390/su10051596

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“…A quote from the sustainability manager includes: “electricity supply is from coal which is dirty and contributes to our carbon footprint (mining and industry sector).” This reflects that climate change and natural resource constraints trigger sustainability concerns amongst the sectors at difference points and scales mainly depending on the association or dependencies of the organisation on natural resources. This is consistent with recent survey finding identifying climate change as an increasing priority for business (Ernst and Young, 2010; WEF, 2011; Kang and Park, 2018). It was interesting to note that neither of the respondents from the food and beverage sector noted climate change and natural resource constraints as drivers of sustainability, especially considering that this sector is heavily influenced by climate change.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…This changed significantly from 2011 onwards with environmental risks including that of biodiversity loss, rising greenhouse gas emissions and climatological catastrophes emerged within the top 5 global risks in terms of their likelihood and impact (WEF, 2014). The physical effects of climate change – changes in temperature and weather, water availability and other changes – have the ability to significantly affect business processes, fixed assets such as buildings and resource availability (Sussman and Freed, 2008; Kang and Park, 2018). However, recent research emphasis that business has repeatedly been criticised for its lack of engagement with environmental risks relating to climate change as a pressing issue and adaptation to the physical impacts of climate change in particular (Linnenluecke et al , 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The physical effects of climate changechanges in temperature and weather, water availability and other changeshave the ability to significantly affect business processes, fixed assets such as buildings and resource availability (Sussman and Freed, 2008;Kang and Park, 2018). However, recent research emphasis that business has repeatedly been criticised for its lack of engagement with environmental risks relating to climate change as a pressing issue and adaptation to the physical impacts of climate change in particular (Linnenluecke et al, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Putting risk management into the corporate sustainability context

Haywood

2021

SRJ

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Purpose This research investigates what is driving corporate sustainability within South African organisations and to what extent these drivers intersect with risk management. This is important as new and emerging business risks are proving to be directly linked to sustainability issues having implication on long-term organisational performance. This implies that sustainability and risk should not be mutually exclusive. Design/methodology/approach By means of semi-structured interviews, sustainability managers of 11 South African organisations were engaged to gain insight relating to the immediate sustainability issues, risk landscape and the possible intersection between these issues within their organisations. Questions posed were around drivers of sustainability, risks to an organisation, changes in risks, relationship between sustainability and risk. By means of thematic analysis key issues emerging from the responses of the sustainability managers could be identified and themes determined based on similarities. This was followed by trend analysis of the frequency of responses to different sustainability and risk themes to interpret the data. Findings Results reveal that sustainability and risk management are similar in their intent purpose and output both aligned towards reducing impacts and managing uncertainty. However even though sustainability has increasingly become integral to business its value contribution and linkage with risk management differ significantly amongst organisations. This suggests that sustainability and risk management remain two distinct frameworks for managing uncertainty in business. Originality/value Research on integrating a sustainability perspective in risk management is at an early stage. To understand and respond to emerging risks, organisations need to integrate sustainability and risk management into their decision strategies – not only to minimize potential losses but also to exploit new business opportunities arising from the sustainability agenda. Future research should be directed towards advancing systematic methods for identifying and managing sustainability risks such that key sustainability challenges are firmly embedded in the risk management of the business. In this regard, organisations would be in a position to build resilience into their business models and operations.

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2021

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“…Common methods include text mining [141], natural language processing (NLP), reinforcement learning and classification. Their application to newspaper archives and information in the context of climatic issues is demonstrated by Yzaguirre, Smit and Warren [142] with their impressive analysis of over two million articles, and Kang and Park [143] using Korean newspapers.…”

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Historical Data for Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation and Land Use Planning

Luino,

Barriendos,

Gizzi

et al. 2023

Land

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This paper demonstrates how historical research is a valuable tool for identifying past geological, geomorphological and climatic hazards and therefore critical for mitigating and reducing future risk. The authors describe the potential of a scientific field that straddles that of the geologist, geographer, historian and archivist. Historical records include a range of materials and sources of information, which can be very diverse; from written documents to cartographies, and from drawings to marble tombstones. They are all useful and convey important data, on the date of the event, the size of the phenomena, sometimes on ground effects, damage or magnitude. The authors discuss how to conduct historical research by providing a list of locations and how important historical documents can be found. Works that mention geological phenomena are listed, starting with the first occasional descriptions by individuals in letters, up to very specific publications in individual fields of interest. With this introduction, the editors of the Special Issue wish to draw attention to the importance of historical documentation, which is too often ignored or considered of low priority by the scientific community, but can contain key information on events, their impacts and social and cultural adaptations.

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“…Common methods from the field of machine learning include classification, thematic clustering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), vectorization and neural networks or even reinforcement learning (LeCuan et al 1998, Kohonen 2001, Mahdisoltani et al 2013, Schmidhuber 2015, Mikolov et al 2013. Their application to newspaper archives and information in the context of climatic issues has for example been demonstrated by Yzaguirre et al (2016) with their impressive analysis of over 2 million articles, and Kang and Park (2018) using Korean newspapers. Kim and Kang (2018) exemplified keyword generation via word vectorization.…”

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Classifying the 2021 ‘Ahrtal’ flood event using hermeneutic interpretation, natural language processing, and instrumental data analyses

Kahle

Kempf

Martin³

et al. 2022

Environ. Res. Commun.

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Extreme weather events and severe flash floods during July 2021 caused numerous deaths and massive ecological disasters across Europe. The regionally overstrained environmental and socio-cultural resilience triggered an intensive discussion about cause and effect, responsibilities and public denouncement, and the financial consequences of climate-induced extreme events. In this article we analyze the flood event by four methodological approaches: (1) hermeneutics, with an analog interpretation of printed newspapers and sources; (2) text mining and natural language processing of digital newspaper articles available online; (3) precipitation and discharge models based on instrumental data; and (4) how the findings can be linked to the historical extreme floods of 1804 and 1910, based on documentary source analysis. These four approaches are used to compare and evaluate their consistency by tracking the course, consequences, and aftermaths of the flood disaster. The study shows a high consistency between the analog, digital, and instrumental data analysis. A combination of multidisciplinary methods and their application to historical events enables the evaluation of modern events. It enables to answer the question of return periods and intensities, which are indispensable for today's risk assessments and their social contextualization, a desideratum in historical and modern climatology.

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A Multi-Risk Approach to Climate Change Adaptation, Based on an Analysis of South Korean Newspaper Articles

Cited by 8 publications

References 52 publications

Putting risk management into the corporate sustainability context

Putting risk management into the corporate sustainability context

Historical Data for Natural Hazard Risk Mitigation and Land Use Planning

Classifying the 2021 ‘Ahrtal’ flood event using hermeneutic interpretation, natural language processing, and instrumental data analyses

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