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.
Highlights
There is climate diversity at a regional scale
Simplify common goals, and encourage involvement from all quarters, we propose the establishment of a global integrated disaster risk governance framework in support of development strategies aimed at living with global climate diversity (Figure 2)
It is possible to comprehensively improve cohesion in preventing and reducing disaster and mitigating disaster risks and to achieve highly efficient and effective disaster reduction and resource utilization. It should allow the necessary adjustment of important disaster reduction strategies that have been implemented around the world in order to complete a global mechanism for coping with climate change risks
Summary
From the perspective of the global spatial scale, Köppen divided the global climate into five climatic zones: Tropical rainy (A), Dry (B), Mild, humid (C), Snowy-forest (D), and Polar (E), and 12 climatic types: Moist forest (Af), Rainforest (Am), Tropical savanna (Aw), Steppe (Bs), Desert (Bw), Mild humid climate with no dry season (C), Mild humid climate. There is climate diversity at a regional scale. The Physical Regionalization Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences classified the climate of China into 7 climate zones, and further divided it into 32 climate types (Huang, Zheng, and Zhao 1999); the China Meteorological Administration classified the climate of China into 10 climate zones, and further divided it into 22 climate types. Zheng and Li (1999) divided the climate of Mount Everest into seven climate types: low-hill tropical zone, warm mountainous zone, cold mountainous zone, frigid subalpine zone, cold alpine zone, freezing alpine zone, and icy alpine zone. The multiple spatial scales of climate diversity as well as their cross-scale interactions are essential for understanding the patterns and dynamics of climate change risks
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