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Adjustment or transformation? Disaster risk intervention examples from Austria, Indonesia, Kiribati and South Africa

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? 2022 The AuthorsChange triggered by natural hazards such as pluvial and coastal floods, sea-level rise as well as risks resulting from water scarcity are highly dynamic and related to the effects of ongoing climate change. Whether and how societies adapt, adjust, change, or transform because of climate change and related risks, is a currently debated topic. This question demands revisiting and comprehensively addressing existing theoretical foundations of transformations in risk management strategies and in risk governance to find effective ways to deal with climate change effects and their social consequences. Hence, the paper discusses current developments in transformation research and exemplifies this discussion with four interdisciplinary cases, which the co-authors reported in previous publications. Findings from Austria include a governance change within flood risk management related to zonation. Relocation in Indonesia and Kiribati showcases its cultural, behavioural as well as economic implications. Water scarcity in South Africa underlines the importance of behavioural change to enable the structural storage of rainwater. This paper analyses aspects of adjustment or transformation in these four examples. This may inform risk managers, decision-makers, practitioners, and planners dealing with natural hazards related to climate change how to conceptualise their (re-)actions.

Climate change adaptationDisaster risk reductionFlood riskRisk communicationTransformative action

von Elverfeldt K.、Fekete A.、Fuchs S.、Garschagen M.、Wannewitz M.、Hutter G.、Klepp S.、Luder C.、Neise T.、Sett D.

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Klagenfurt University Department of Geography and Regional Studies

Institute of Rescue Engineering and Civil Protection TH K?ln - University of Applied Sciences

Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences

Department of Geography Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich (LMU)

Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER)

Geographisches Institut Kiel University

Institute for European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit?t Munich (LMU)

Institute of Geography University Osnabrück

United Nations University - Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

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2022

Land Use Policy

Land Use Policy

SSCI
ISSN:0264-8377
年,卷(期):2022.120
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