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Ringsmuth AK, Otto IM, van den Hurk B, Lahn G, Reyer CPO, Carter TR, Magnuszewski P, Monasterolo I, Aerts JCJH, Benzie M, Campiglio E, Fronzek S, Gaupp F, Jarzabek L, Klein RJT, Knaepen H, Mechler R, Mysiak J, Sillmann J, Stuparu D, West C
Clim Risk Manag - (-) 100395 [2022-01-11; online 2022-01-11]
COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses to them, have potential to disrupt societies at multiple scales via networks of trade, finance, mobility and communication, and to impact hardest on the most vulnerable. However, these complex systems can also facilitate resilience if managed effectively. This review aims to distil lessons related to the transboundary management of systemic risks from the COVID-19 experience, to inform climate change policy and resilience building. Evidence from diverse fields is synthesised to illustrate the nature of systemic risks and our evolving understanding of resilience. We describe research methods that aim to capture systemic complexity to inform better management practices and increase resilience to crises. Finally, we recommend specific, practical actions for improving transboundary climate risk management and resilience building. These include mapping the direct, cross-border and cross-sectoral impacts of potential climate extremes, adopting adaptive risk management strategies that embrace heterogenous decision-making and uncertainty, and taking a broader approach to resilience which elevates human wellbeing, including societal and ecological resilience.
Topics: Register-based research
PubMed 35036298
DOI 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395
Crossref 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395
pii: S2212-0963(22)00002-X
pmc: PMC8750828