A science of loss

Barnett, Jon; Tschakert, Petra; Head, Lesley; Adger, W. Neil

doi:10.1038/nclimate3140

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“…Existing loss and damage tracking systems, such as insurance databases, are ill-suited or incapable of documenting intangible climate-driven impacts [111]. Evidence shows that the application of diverse methodological approaches [13,109] and increased engagement with Indigenous communities [112] will be necessary to document these intangible losses and damages, determine the potential limits of adaptation, and propose desirable alternative pathways.…”

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Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature

Middleton

Cunsolo

Jones‐Bitton

et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Indigenous Peoples globally are among those who are most acutely experiencing the mental health impacts of climate change; however, little is known about the ways in which Indigenous Peoples globally experience climate-sensitive mental health impacts and outcomes, and how these experiences may vary depending on local socio-cultural contexts, geographical location, and regional variations in climate change. Thus, the goal of this study was to examine the extent, range, and nature of published research investigating the ways in which global Indigenous mental health is impacted by meteorological, seasonal, and climatic changes. Following a systematic scoping review protocol, three electronic databases were searched. To be included, articles had to be empirical research published since 2007 (i.e. since the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report); explicitly discuss Indigenous Peoples and describe factors related to climatic variables and mental health. Descriptive data from relevant articles were extracted, and the articles were thematically analyzed. Fifty articles were included for full review. Most primary research articles described research in Canada (38%), Australia (24%), and the United States of America (10%), with the number of articles increasing over time. Mental health outcomes such as strong emotional responses, suicide, depression, and anxiety were linked to changes in meteorological factors, seasonality, and exposure to both acute and chronic weather events. The literature also reported on the ways in which the emotional and psychological impacts of climate were connected to changing place attachment, disrupted cultural continuity, altered food security and systems, forced human mobility, and intangible loss and damages. This review highlights global considerations for Indigenous mental health in relation to climate change, which can support Indigenous-driven initiatives and decisionmaking to enhance mental wellness in a changing climate.

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confidence: 99%

Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature

Middleton

Cunsolo

Jones‐Bitton

et al. 2020

Environ. Res. Lett.

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“…The perspective focuses on a techno-pragmatic problem approach. Separating L&D which can and cannot be adapted to is perceived as unhelpful, for example: "if you start to have policy processes at the national level, which treat L&D and adaptation as separate, you lose the opportunity to manage it properly" (interviewee 35,2015).…”

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“…This kind of emphasis was quite consistent across the perspectives. including "how loss is perceived and understood" (interviewee 30, 2015) (as also highlighted in recent academic papers 35,36 ).…”

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A typology of loss and damage perspectives

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Loss and Damage (L&D) has been the subject of contentious debate in international climate policy for several decades. Recently, formal mechanisms on L&D have been established, but arguably through unclear language. This ambiguity is politically important, but researchers and practitioners require clearer understandings of L&D. Here we report on the first in-depth empirical study of actor perspectives, including interviews with 38 key stakeholders in research, practice, and policy. We find points of agreement and also important distinctions in terms of: the relationship between L&D and adaptation, the emphasis on avoiding versus addressing L&D, the relevance of anthropogenic climate change, and the role of justice. A typology of four perspectives is identified, with different implications for research priorities and actions to address L&D. This typology enables improved understanding of existing perspectives and so has potential to facilitate more transparent discussion of the options available to address L&D. prevent, avoid, proactive, reducing and reversing L&D, reducing and minimising, averting and reducing, minimising risks, potential L&D, potential impact, L&D is under adaptation, humanitarian response, unfortunate Risk Management climate risk management, comprehensive climate management, holistic, total risk, risk layering, high level losses, changing risk profile, evolving risk, socioeconomic thresholds, extreme events,

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“…This is an important research gap, since SWF-triggering hydrometeorological processes and local disposition of SWFs are the basis for better process understanding, potential forecasting and warning applications and are critical in light of future climate change [5]. Indeed, with the observed [6,7] and projected [8] increases of heavy precipitation events, the impacts of SWFs will become more relevant for flood risk management and insurance [9][10][11][12][13][14]. Thus, we aim to link precipitation and damage.…”

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Characterizing precipitation events leading to surface water flood damage over large regions of complex terrain

Bernet

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Martius

et al. 2019

Environ. Res. Lett.

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Surface water floods (SWFs) that lead to household losses are mainly localized phenomena. Research on describing the associated precipitation characteristics has previously been based on case studies and on the derivation of local rainfall thresholds, but no approaches have yet been presented on the national scale. Here, we propose a new way to overcome this scaling problem. We linked a gridded precipitation dataset based on both rainfall gauges and radar data with geolocated insurance claims for all of Switzerland. We show that the absolute thresholds vary markedly over complex terrain, and we thus propose basing early warning systems for predicting damage-relevant SWF events on local quantiles of maximum intensity and the total sum of event precipitation. A threshold model based on these two parameters is able to classify rainfall events potentially leading to damage-relevant SWF events over large areas of complex terrain, including high mountains and lowland areas, and a variety of geological conditions. Our approach is an important step towards the development of impact-based early warning systems. Weather warning agencies or insurance companies can build upon these findings to find workarounds for issuing user-targeted warnings at national scale or for nowcasting purposes.

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A science of loss

Cited by 132 publications

References 20 publications

Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature

Indigenous mental health in a changing climate: a systematic scoping review of the global literature

A typology of loss and damage perspectives

Characterizing precipitation events leading to surface water flood damage over large regions of complex terrain

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