Abstract
Grand Challenges for Climate Risk Management
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Maria Carmen Lemos 1*, Nicole Klenk 2, Christine J
Specialty section: This article was submitted to Climate Risk Management, a section of the journal Frontiers in Climate
Our goals for the Climate Risk Management section are both about discovery and understanding as well as about how to create actionable knowledge in just and effective ways
Summary
Maria Carmen Lemos 1*, Nicole Klenk 2, Christine J. Climate change impact shares many characteristics with the pandemic, including its global reach, the way it disproportionately and unfairly affects the poor and the vulnerable, and its non-linear and uncertain character Both crises engender the need to address the structural causes of vulnerability at all scales through transformational socioeconomic and political change that improves resilience to all impacts (see for example Ord, 2020). While advancing understanding of climate risk management and urging others to act—including climate scientists, politicians, and policymakers—many social scientists have been less willing themselves to move from observing and representing to intervening and acting This reluctance is challenging, because social science scholars have a vital role in designing and testing solutions that manage and reduce the risk of climate change impact. Within and beyond these topics, we highlight three grand challenges we believe have been less explored and which can further guide our ambition for the section: (1) harnessing social science knowledge toward action and resilience, (2) understanding risk in a reflexive and consequential way, and (3) bridging the social sciences and the humanities to understand and manage risk
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