Improving Risk Governance for Adapting to Climate Change: Case from Shanghai

Yan Zheng () and Xinlu Xie ()
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Yan Zheng: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, MCC Tower, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China
Xinlu Xie: Institute for Urban and Environmental Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, MCC Tower, 28 Shuguangxili, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100028, China

Chinese Journal of Urban and Environmental Studies (CJUES), 2014, vol. 02, issue 02, 1-13

Abstract: Decision-making under changing climate has become uncertain and complex, which brings great challenges to traditional risk governance process. Coastal areas in China have been highly urbanized with increasing population and physical assets during the past decades. Based on a simplified risk governance framework, a case of Chinese coastal megacity is evaluated with key functions of risk assessment, risk management, and risk communication. It finds that the case of "Comprehensive Coordination Centre" in Shanghai Fengxian District can play a positive role to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of risk governance in the Chinese context, especially a potential to reduce "organized irresponsibility" and "systematic risks". Adaptive and integrated risk governance can be improved from policy experiments and experience learnt from implementation. This paper concludes that the innovation in the existing disaster risk reduction system will promote the ability of adaptation to climate change in the long run.

Keywords: Climate change; risk governance; adaptation; government-led; risk management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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