There is an increasing emphasis on risk-based approaches in the scientific and economic
assessment of climate change, exemplified by the Stern Report and IPPC 4th Assessment …

Risk assessment techniques are regarded as key devices for managing adaptation to
climate change; this paper examines their use in the first UK Climate Change Risk …

The notion of “dangerous climate change” constitutes an important development of the 1992
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. It persists, however, as an …

Although levels of concern and awareness about climate change have been rising in many
nations over the past 20 years, climate change remains of low importance relative to other …

JUST OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO TWO SEMINAL PAPERS ON risk were
published: Chauncey Starr's 'Social Benefit Versus Technological Risk''and Mary Douglas's …

Climate change risk assessment involves formal analysis of the consequences, likelihoods
and responses to the impacts of climate change and the options for addressing these under …

The selection of climate policies should be an exercise in risk management reflecting the
many relevant sources of uncertainty. Studies of climate change and its impacts rarely yield …

This paper presents a consistent series of policy-relevant indicators of changing climate
hazards and resources for the UK, spanning the health, transport, energy, agriculture, flood …

Human-induced climate change is an existential risk to human civilisation: an adverse
outcome that would either annihilate intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its …

This article sets out the current conceptualisation and description of risk used by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It identifies limitations in capacity to …