Resilience to Climate Change

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Defining Nexus Shocks

   • Candice Howarth, Katya Brooks

   Pages 1-21

3. Mitigating and Exacerbating Climate Shocks to the Nexus

   • Candice Howarth

   Pages 23-45

4. Challenges and Opportunities in Responding to Nexus Shocks

   • Candice Howarth

   Pages 47-64

5. The Importance of Communication, Collaboration and Co-production

   • Candice Howarth, Sian Morse-Jones

   Pages 65-86

6. Looking Ahead

   • Candice Howarth

   Pages 87-110

7. Back Matter

   Pages 111-113

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The frequency and intensity of climate shocks such as heatwaves and flooding, are expected to increase under a changing climate with severe implications across the food, energy, water, environment nexus. This book critically explores how to improve resilience to climate shocks by examining the range of challenges and opportunities that exist in the aftermath of shocks and discusses factors that exacerbate and mitigate these. It innovatively discusses the importance of embedding communication, collaboration and co-production within resilience-building across sectors and stakeholders. Doing so with policy, practitioner and scientific communities, Candice Howarth argues, can pave the way to overcome challenges that emerge from climate shocks and facilitate the co-design of sustainable, robust and resilient responses.

• environmental policy
• environmental governance
• climate risks
• climate change
• environmental decision making
• transdisciplinary research
• societal response
• food-energy-water nexus
• environmental shocks
• Resilience
• community responses to heatwaves
• Climate Communication
• Environmental Geography
• Climate change management

“The challenge of coping with uncertain climate risks and potential disruption across a range of sectors is a topic that is increasingly coming to the fore… Dr. Howarth and colleagues skilfully set out the nature of the problem, the barriers to responding effectively, and some innovative thinking about the importance of collaboration and communication to improve resilience.” (Kristen Guida, London Climate Change Partnership, UK)

“Anyone concerned with communication of environmental risks, public understanding of science and risk, and planning for resilient responses to environmental shocks to our systems, will benefit from reading this book and applying its lessons.” (Dr Ian Christie, University of Surrey, UK)

• University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom

  Candice Howarth

Candice Howarth is Senior Lecturer in Sustainability and Climate Communication at the University of Surrey, UK. 

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