Effects of climate change on coastal disasters: new methodologies and recent results

Yasuhara, Kazuya; Komine, Hideo; Yokoki, Hiromune; Suzuki, Takeshi; Mimura, Naoya; Tamura, Makoto; Chen, Guangqi

doi:10.1007/s11625-011-0127-3

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“…More knowledge is needed on how organisms respond to acute, catastrophic, and extreme environmental events, including events such as tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, floods, and extreme thermal events. Such acute events are predicted to increase in frequency as a result of climate change and anthropogenic pollution of Earth's atmosphere and oceans (van Aalst 2006, Yasuhara et al 2011. Biological responses to acute environmental change are based on molecular, physiological, and behavioral mechanisms that rapidly confer plasticity to organismal phenotypes in order to maximize their coping ability under those conditions (Kültz 2005, Wingfield 2012.…”

Section: Context Dependence Of Organismal Life-history Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Frontiers for Organismal Biology

Kültz

Clayton²,

Robinson³

et al. 2013

BioScience

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Understanding how complex organisms function and interact as integrated units with their environment is a long-standing challenge in biology. To address this challenge, organismal biology aims to reveal general organizing principles of physiological systems and behavior-in particular, in complex multicellular animals. Organismal biology also focuses on the role of individual variability in the evolutionary maintenance of diversity. To broadly advance these frontiers, cross-compatibility of experimental designs, methodological approaches, and data interpretation pipelines represents a key prerequisite. It is now possible to rapidly and systematically analyze complete genomes to elucidate genetic variation associated with traits and conditions that define individuals, populations, and species. However, genetic variation alone does not explain the varied individual physiology and behavior of complex organisms. We propose that such emergent properties of complex organisms can best be explained through a renewed emphasis on the context and life-history dependence of individual phenotypes as a to complement genetic data.

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Section: Context Dependence Of Organismal Life-history Trajectoriesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Frontiers for Organismal Biology

Kültz

Clayton²,

Robinson³

et al. 2013

BioScience

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“…threatened by sea level rise) conflicts may appear as 'battles on lost ground'. All conflicts require new adaptation strategies, known under the notion of 'adaptive governance' (Yasuhara et al 2011). Blackmore called scientific uncertainty, lack of knowledge about causes, effects, nature and the future of some resources as challenges to resource conflict…”

Section: Research Problems -Urban Development and Multidimensional Comentioning

confidence: 99%

Knowledge integration in the management of coastal conflicts in urban areas: two cases from Sweden

Stepanova

2013

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

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High anthropogenic pressure on coastal ecosystems, competition for natural resources and climate change are major challenges to the sustainable management of coastal areas. Two cases of resource use conflicts in coastal urban areas in the south and west of Sweden analysed here illustrate these challenges. The social practices of using and integrating knowledge and joint learning in conflict resolution show that dominant actors and their knowledge practices have a strong influence on conflict resolution and its outcomes. Improved conflict resolution requires more efforts to achieve knowledge integration and joint learning of stakeholders in open, dialogue-based strategies in all phases of the resolution process.

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“…Meanwhile, natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity [ 10 ]. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) predicts between 3 and 5 major hurricanes this Atlantic Hurricane Season which could bring wind speeds of 111 miles per hour or higher.…”

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Compound hazards: An examination of how hurricane protective actions could increase transmission risk of COVID-19

Dargin

Jawer

et al. 2021

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction

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Hurricane season brings new and complex challenges as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. In May 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted nearly twice the normal number of tropical storms and hurricanes this season, while projections of COVID-19 models continue to rise in the United States as the Atlantic hurricane season progresses. Our research examines the critical intersection of hurricane response and public health in Harris County, Texas. We examine a hypothetical case of the 2017 Hurricane Harvey occurring amid the current pandemic. This research uses point of interest visitations as location intelligence data provided by SafeGraph together with Social Vulnerability Index and historical flood data to examine the critical intersection of natural hazard planning and response and the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the risks of a compound hazard situation. COVID-19 transmission hotspots and businesses in a community due to storm preparation activity were identified. The main drivers of transmission risk arise from overall pandemic exposure and increased interpersonal contact during hurricane preparation. Residents of health-risk areas will need to make logistical arrangements to visit alternative medical facilities for treatments related to either COVID-19 or physical impacts, such as injuries, due to the hurricane risks. Points of interest needed for disaster preparation are more likely to be situated in high-risk areas, therefore making cross-community spread more likely. Moreover, greater susceptibility could arise from social vulnerability (socioeconomic status and demographic factors) and disrupted access to healthcare facilities. Results from this study can be used to identify high-risk areas for COVID-19 transmission for prioritization in planning for temporary healthcare centers and other essential services in low-risk areas. Understanding the interplay between disaster preparation and the restrictive environment laid out by the pandemic is critical for community leaders and public health officials for ensuring the population has sufficient access to essential infrastructure services. The findings from this study can help guide the direction of disaster planning and pandemic response strategies and policies.

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Effects of climate change on coastal disasters: new methodologies and recent results

Cited by 17 publications

References 4 publications

New Frontiers for Organismal Biology

New Frontiers for Organismal Biology

Knowledge integration in the management of coastal conflicts in urban areas: two cases from Sweden

Compound hazards: An examination of how hurricane protective actions could increase transmission risk of COVID-19

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