Seeking anticipatory adaptation: adaptive capacity and resilience to flood risk. (1st January 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, Hyun; Woosnam, Kyle Maurice; Marcouiller, David W.; Kim, Hyewon
• Is Part Of: Environmental hazards. Volume 21:Number 1(2022)
• Page Start: 36
• Page End: 57
• Publication Date: 2022-01-01
• Subjects: Climate risks -- economic impulse and response -- spatial and temporal differentials -- vulnerability; Environmental disasters -- Periodicals; Environmental disasters -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Natural disasters -- Periodicals; Natural disasters -- Prevention -- Periodicals; Environmental protection -- Periodicals; 363.7005
• DOI: 10.1080/17477891.2021.1902783
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-7891

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Adaptation to climate risks involves complementarities between vulnerability, adaptive capacity, and resilience. In this study focused on anticipatory adaptation as social dynamics and social construction, we assess county-level adaptive capacity and resilience to inland flood risks. This is done through the application of temporal models, spatial differentials of risk, and economic impulse-response dynamics in the US Upper Midwest over the last 20 years. Empirical results for anticipatory adaptation suggest that social capital attributes and a variety of mitigation measures play a critical role in alleviating flood risks. In addition, counties with higher levels of adaptive capacity rebound more quickly from sudden climate-induced events. Effective and proactive local adaptation planning and policy combined with a region-wide understanding of anticipatory adaptation and temporal matches, spatial differentials, and impulse-response dynamics can help minimise disaster loss and make disaster-prone communities more resilient to future events.