Suraje Dessai - UK Climate Resilience Champion

Suraje Dessai - 英国气候适应力冠军

• 批准号: NE/S017321/1
• 负责人: Suraje Dessai
• 金额: $ 154.65万
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=NE%2FS017321%2F1
• 关键词: Suraje; Dessai; UK; Climate; Resilience

My vision for the UK Climate Resilience Champion role is to build a transdisciplinary community of practice that includes researchers, practitioners and policy-makers, capable of delivering impactful frontier research on climate risk and adaptation solutions, to make the UK resilient to climate variability and change.There is an urgent need to accelerate adaptation and build resilience to climate variability and change. Informing the extensive preparations needed to manage climate risks, avoid damages without exacerbating existing inequalities, and realise emerging opportunities, is a grand challenge for climate change science. To support the wide range of necessary adjustments across the country and sectors, it is crucial to co-develop a comprehensive and integrated programme of research and impact that includes natural science, social science, engineering, the arts and humanities. To build resilience, research needs to be informed and shaped by the diverse range of stakeholder interests and needs across the natural and built environment, infrastructure, business and industry, national, devolved and local government. The UK research base in this area is world leading but fragmented. The Met Office and UKRI-funded climate scientists have been at the forefront of climate science and the early development of climate services, exemplified by the recently released UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18). Engineering and other sciences have translated climate hazard knowledge into impact and risk metrics, e.g., in infrastructure and urban adaptation, creating the world's first national infrastructure system-of-systems model. World-class social science research has focused e.g., on barriers to adaptation, risk perception and communication, and the science-policy interface. The arts and humanities have achieved world-leading contributions in the philosophy of climate science, history and culture of climate resilience and artistic initiatives focusing on change and loss. The UK Climate Resilience programme will draw together fragmented climate research and expertise to deliver robust, multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinary research on climate risk and adaptation to ensure the UK is resilient to climate variability and change and powerfully positioned to exploit the opportunities of adaptation and green growth. In order to achieve this, the UK Climate Resilience Champion will:- Develop and nurture a UK climate resilience community of practice that includes researchers (from Met Office and academia), practitioners (e.g., consultants, climate risk managers in organisations) and policy-makers (across different levels of government).- Identify principles to guide prioritisation for the research programme e.g.: maximising the number of users benefiting from the research; maximising the number of disciplines involved; ensuring UKRI and Met Office components of the programme are aligned. - Develop a coherent transdisciplinary research programme with the community of practice ensuring alignment across the portfolio of research and linking with international efforts (e.g., Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Future Earth, Paris Agreement global stocktake, etc.).- Raise the profile of the programme amongst researchers, practitioners and policy-makers to consolidate the development of a UK climate resilience community of practice.- Nurture a new generation of adaptation scientists and practitioners capable of responding to user-driven research questions through interdisciplinary research with real world impact and applications.- Promote knowledge exchange across the programme and amongst the wider community.

我对英国气候弹性冠军角色的愿景是建立一个包括研究人员、从业者和政策制定者在内的跨学科实践社区，能够就气候风险和适应解决方案提供有影响力的前沿研究，使英国对气候多变和变化具有弹性。迫切需要加快适应，建立对气候多变和变化的弹性。为管理气候风险、在不加剧现有不平等的情况下避免损害并实现新出现的机会所需的广泛准备工作，是气候变化科学面临的一项重大挑战。为了支持在全国和各部门进行广泛的必要调整，至关重要的是共同制定一个全面和综合的研究和影响方案，其中包括自然科学、社会科学、工程学、艺术和人文科学。为了建立复原力，研究需要由自然和建筑环境、基础设施、商业和工业、国家、权力下放和地方政府的各种利益相关者的利益和需求提供信息并加以塑造。英国在这一领域的研究基地处于世界领先地位，但却支离破碎。英国气象局和英国皇家学会资助的气候科学家一直站在气候科学和气候服务早期开发的前沿，最近发布的2018年英国气候预测(UKCP18)就是例证。工程学和其他科学已将气候危害知识转化为影响和风险度量，例如在基础设施和城市适应方面，创建了世界上第一个国家基础设施系统系统模型。世界级社会科学研究的重点是适应障碍、风险感知和沟通以及科学-政策接口。艺术和人文学科在气候科学哲学、气候适应能力的历史和文化以及关注变化和损失的艺术倡议方面取得了世界领先的贡献。英国气候复原力计划将汇集零散的气候研究和专业知识，就气候风险和适应提供强有力的、多学科、跨学科和跨学科的研究，以确保英国对气候多变和变化具有弹性，并处于有利地位，能够利用适应和绿色增长的机会。为了实现这一目标，英国气候复原力冠军将：-发展和培育一个英国气候复原力实践社区，其中包括研究人员(来自英国气象局和学术界)、实践者(例如，组织中的顾问、气候风险管理人员)和政策制定者(跨不同级别的政府)。-确定指导研究计划优先顺序的原则，例如：最大限度地增加从研究中受益的用户数量；最大限度地增加涉及的学科数量；确保英国KRI和英国气象局计划的组成部分保持一致。-与实践社区共同制定一个连贯的跨学科研究方案，确保整个研究组合与国际努力(例如，政府间气候变化专门委员会(IPCC)、未来地球、《巴黎协定》全球评估等)保持一致。-提高该方案在研究人员、实践者和政策制定者中的形象，以巩固英国气候复原力实践社区的发展。-培养新一代适应科学家和实践者，他们能够通过具有现实世界影响和应用的跨学科研究来回应用户驱动的研究问题。-促进整个方案和更广泛社区之间的知识交流。

项目成果

UK Climate Risk Assessment and Management

英国气候风险评估和管理

• DOI: 10.1016/j.crm.2022.100440
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Climate Risk Management
• 影响因子: 4.4
• 作者: Dessai S

Quantifying Climate Risk and Building Resilience in the UK

量化英国的气候风险并增强抵御能力

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-39729-5_9
• 发表时间: 2024
• 作者: Catto J