Living with Global Climate Diversity—Suggestions on International Governance for Coping with Climate Change Risk

Peijun Shi; Qian Ye; Guoyi Han; Ning Li; Ming Wang; Weihua Fang; Yanhua Liu

doi:10.1007/s13753-012-0018-y

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Peijun Shi, Qian Ye, Guoyi Han, Ning Li, Ming Wang, Weihua Fang, Yanhua Liu. Living with Global Climate Diversity—Suggestions on International Governance for Coping with Climate Change Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2012, 3(4): 177-184. doi: 10.1007/s13753-012-0018-y

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Peijun Shi, Qian Ye, Guoyi Han, Ning Li, Ming Wang, Weihua Fang, Yanhua Liu. Living with Global Climate Diversity—Suggestions on International Governance for Coping with Climate Change Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2012, 3(4): 177-184. doi: 10.1007/s13753-012-0018-y

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Peijun Shi, Qian Ye, Guoyi Han, Ning Li, Ming Wang, Weihua Fang, Yanhua Liu. Living with Global Climate Diversity—Suggestions on International Governance for Coping with Climate Change Risk[J]. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science, 2012, 3(4): 177-184. doi: 10.1007/s13753-012-0018-y

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Living with Global Climate Diversity—Suggestions on International Governance for Coping with Climate Change Risk

doi: 10.1007/s13753-012-0018-y

Peijun Shi^{1,2,3
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Qian Ye¹,
Guoyi Han⁴,
Ning Li^1,2,3,
Ming Wang¹,
Weihua Fang³,
Yanhua Liu⁵

1 State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
2 Key Laboratory of Environmental Change and Natural Disasters, Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
3 Academy of Disaster Reduction and Emergency Management, Ministry of Civil Affairs and Ministry of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China;
4 Stockholm Environment Institute, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden;
5 Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resource Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China

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This paper is based on research supported by grants from the National Key Basic Research and Development Program:Global and China Environmental Risk and Its Adaptation Paradigms (2012CB955404) and the International Science and Technology Cooperation Project from the Ministry of Science and Technology:Comparative Research on Integrate d Risk Governance Technology and Paradigms in Typical Vulnerable Area (S2012GR0231).

Available Online: 2021-04-26

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Abstract

Climatic conditions have important influences on human life and the sustainable development of economies and societies. Climate varies in space and time. People have always lived with climate diversity, and the two influence each other. The degree of mutual influence differs at different spatial and temporal scales. Since the industrial revolution, the human effect on climate has gradually increased, and expanded from local to global scale. To allow people to live in harmony with nature and prevent disaster risks, the International Human Dimensions Program on Global Environmental Change (IHDP) announced the implementation of a scientific plan aimed at discussing risk governance, especially with respect to large-scale disaster risks, under global environmental change conditions (IHDP-Integrated Risk Governance Project, 2009-2019). As the initiator of this scientific plan, the authors propose a strategic development framework for living with global climate diversity considering a series of large-scale disasters in China and around the world in recent years and relevant experiences and lessons, and offer suggestions for the global mechanism of dealing with climate change risks.
- climate diversity,
- climate change risk,
- integrated disaster risk governance,
- consilience mode of risk governance

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