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Sun, Landong, Tian, Zhan, Zou, Huan, Shao, Lanzhu, Sun, Laixiang, Dong, Guangtao, Fan, Dongli, Huang, Xinxing, Frost, Laura and Fox-James, Lewis (2019) 'An Index-Based Assessment of Perceived Climate Risk and Vulnerability for the Urban Cluster in the Yangtze River Delta Region of China.' Sustainability, 11 (7).

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Abstract

This paper proposes an index-based assessment tool to consolidate diverse opinions of various stakeholders on their assessments of sector-specific risks posed by climate change, and to aggregate these opinions into intuitive and comparable graphs. This tool enables cities to measure and monitor the multiple factors that contribute to their resilience towards climate risk and hazard in the long term. We applied this tool to five key infrastructure sectors in six representative cities in the Yangtze River Delta region. The graphs generated provide for the first time first-hand insights into the aggregative understanding of various stakeholders with regard to the current and future climate risk in their concerned sectors and cities. Our results indicate that a high level of exposure is not automatically associated with a high level of vulnerability across our selected cities. While all cities need to make efforts to reduce their vulnerability towards climate hazards, those characterized by “lower level of exposure but higher level of vulnerability” need to make more urgent and much greater efforts.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: climate risk assessment; index-based; infrastructure; the Yangtze River Delta region; stakeholder perspective
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Finance & Management
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor
H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management
H Social Sciences > HG Finance
H Social Sciences
ISSN: 20711050
Copyright Statement: © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.3390/su11072099
Date Deposited: 27 Jun 2019 08:14
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/30765
Funders: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Other

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