Evaluating climate risk at the right scale: local lessons from the Climate and Ocean Risk Vulnerability Initiative (CORVI)

Sally Yozell, Tracy Rouleau, Natalie Fiertz and Carolyn Gruber

Chapter 16 in A Research Agenda for Sustainable Ocean Governance, 2025, pp 185-200 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and coastal Least Developed Countries (LDCs) are widely recognized as being the most vulnerable to climate change because they rely more directly on the oceans’ resources, they are more severely impacted by climate-related health threats, and their low socioeconomic status does not leave any buffer for recovery after a climate disaster. Coastal communities face interconnected and compounding risks that demand holistic, locally tailored climate risk assessment and action. Decision-makers in coastal cities need tools that enable them to consider all the dimensions of climate risk—hazards, exposure, and vulnerability—across ecological, economic, and social systems to develop a comprehensive picture of climate risk for their city. The Climate and Ocean Risk Vulnerability Initiative (CORVI), developed by the Stimson Center, analyzes a diverse set of climate risks and vulnerabilities to produce a comprehensive climate risk assessment. CORVI fills data gaps, identifies cascading and compounding climate risks, supports informed decisions, avoids costly mistakes, and takes advantage of opportunities for sustainable growth. CORVI supports a hyper-local approach to climate resilience with the understanding that the best, most effective solutions will be designed with locally specific data and implemented collaboratively where it matters most—at the community level.

Keywords: Climate Risk; Small Island Developing States; Least Developed Countries; Coastal Communities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035325740
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