Impact of justice and solidarity variables on the acceptability of managed realignment     

Bénédicte Rulleau  Hélène Rey-Valette  Valérie Clément 《Climate Policy》2013,13(3):361-377

Sea-level rise due to climate change will have significant effects on coastal areas and populations. Adaptation policies recommend the managed realignment of the most vulnerable assets and activities. Despite their medium- and long-term benefits, these policies face significant friction due to social acceptability in the communities where they are implemented.

This article investigates the hypothesis that respecting principles of justice in the implementation of managed realignment should increase its acceptability. We compare preferences of those people who are exposed to the risk of climate-change-induced flooding and those who are not, as regards funding managed retreat policies and defining compensation criteria for assets at risk. The main theories of social justice provide the four principles included in the analysis: efficiency, need, responsibility and priority assigned to property rights.

A choice experiment survey was conducted with 258 residents of coastal and hinterland communities in the south of France. Four attributes were selected to define the managed realignment policy: the dialogue arrangements, the implementation period, the policy implementation schedule and the cost. The results show support for a relatively fast launch of these policies (within 15 years) but in stages and through a process of dialogue with the population. People's perceptions of the funding criteria reveal a preference for national solidarity. Finally, national funding of managed retreat policies and compensation criteria based on market prices have a significant positive influence on the acceptability of managed realignment policies, whereas introducing responsibility-based compensation criteria tends to favour the status quo over the adaptation policy.

Policy relevance

Prioritization of the funding criteria reveals the preference for national solidarity. Preferences for the justice criteria underpinning compensation reveal a great diversity of values. Besides implantation modalities, preferences for managed realignment policies depend on which level they are implemented at, on the expropriation criteria (the emphasis given to property rights, i.e. market price), on the attachment (people perceived as worst off, i.e. the property is their main residence rather than a second home or they have lower levels of income) and on the degree of responsibility (related to the date of purchase, i.e. on the information given at the time on the risk).  相似文献   

A 16 ka climate record deduced from δ^13C and C/N ratio in Qinghai Lake sediments, northeastern Tibetan Plateau     

沈吉汪勇  刘兴起Ryo Matsumoto 《中国海洋湖沼学报》2006,24(2):103-110

1 INTRODUCTION δ13C in organic matters from lacustrine sedi- ments varies with several factors including aquatic plants, vegetation type in the catchment, atmos- pheric CO2 concentration, climate (temperature and precipitation), and properties of water, …  相似文献   

Simulation of the damage to a simple RC structure in the Bhuj,India, earthquake to estimate the level of input‐motion     

Laxman Sunuwar  Madan B. Karkee  Carlos Cuadra 《地震工程与结构动力学》2005,34(9):1109-1127

Analysis of a simple reinforced concrete (RC) structure damaged by the Bhuj, India, earthquake was carried out to estimate the level of shaking in the epicentral region. For this, an attempt was made to estimate the level of input motion to cause inelastic behavior to the extent observed during the field visit. To consider the inelastic effects, both yielding of steel bars as well as crushing of the concrete cover has been investigated employing the hysteretic model known as the Fiber model. The only available record at Ahmedabad of the Bhuj earthquake and four additional earthquake records from Japan and California were used in the analysis. Considering simple scaling of input motion, the level of input motion to cause crushing and spall‐off of the concrete cover as observed in the field was estimated to be of the order of 6 times the original instrumental record obtained at 240 km away from the epicenter. The methodology proposed was promising in providing a useful quantitative indication of the level of shaking when instrumental records are not available. It was also noted that the design response spectrum specified in Indian seismic code IS1893: 1984 appears inadequate compared to the extent of shaking estimated. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.  相似文献   

The Albian to Maastrichtian of Southern Sweden and Bornholm, Denmark: a review     

Walter Kegel Christensen 《Cretaceous Research》1984,5(4):313-327

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Paleoclimate changes during the last 100,000 yr from a record in the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest region and interhemispheric comparison     

M.-P. Ledru  D.-D. Rousseau  F.W. Cruz  Jr.  C. Riccomini  I. Karmann  L. Martin 《Quaternary Research》2005,64(3):444-450

A long terrestrial record, Colônia CO-3, from the Atlantic rainforest region in Brazil (23°52′S, 46°42′20 W, 900 m a.s.l.) registrates variations in the forest expansion during the last 100,000 yr. The 780-cm depth core was analyzed at 2-cm intervals and arboreal pollen frequencies were compared to nearby speleothem stable isotope records and neighboring marine records from the tropical Atlantic. To evaluate regional versus global climate forcing, our record was compared with Greenland and Antarctic ice-core records. These comparisons suggest that changes in temperature seen in polar latitudes relate to moisture changes: e.g., to changes in the length of the dry season, in tropical and subtropical latitudes during glacial as well as interglacial times. These climatic changes result from changes in the frequency of polar air incursions to these latitudes inducing a permanent cloud cover and precipitation. This is an important result that should help define paleoclimatic features in the Southern Hemisphere for the last glaciation.  相似文献   

Environmental records of lacustrine sediments in different time scales: Sediment grain size as an example   总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2  

CHEN Jing’an  WAN Guojiang  David Dian Zhang  ZHANG Feng & HUANG Ronggui . State Key Laboratory of Environmental Geochemistry  Institute of Geochemistry  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Guiyang  China  . Department of Geography  Geology  University of Hong Kong  Pokfulam Road  Hong Kong  China 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2004,47(10):954-960

Understanding the past is the key to know thepresent and to predict the future. As a core project ofthe International Geosphere Biosphere Program, PastGlobal Changes (PAGES) aims to reconstruct theevolution history of global climate, global environ-ment and global ecosystem with resort to all kinds ofnatural records, so as to reveal the change rules(change processes, change amplitude and change rate)of the global environment and thus provide scientificbasis for predicting climate changes p…  相似文献   

Palynological record during the Pleistocene (between 1.05 Ma and 0.36 Ma) from ODP1144, northern South China Sea     

HUANG Fei & SUN XiangjunInstitute of Geology  Paleontology  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Nanjing  China  Institute of Botany  Chinese Academy of Sciences  Beijing  China  Key Laboratory of Marine Geology  Ministry of Education  Tongji University  Shanghai  China Correspondence should be addressed to Huang Fei 《中国科学D辑(英文版)》2004,47(1):30-36

This paper presents the pollen record from the lower section of ODP1144 (depth 501.3-225.7 m, ca. 1.05-0.36 Ma). Two pollen zones (PA and PB) and eleven pollen subzones are recognized. Within zone PB, the 11 pollen subzones (PB21-11) are defined according to the pine, fern and herb variations, and are equivalent to the marine isotope stages 21-11 (MISs 21-11). The interglacial periods are typified by an increase in pine pollen and fern spores, and a decrease in herbaceous pollen, while the patterning during the glacial periods is just the opposite. During the interglacial periods, pollen assemblages were dominated by pine similar to those of the present day, suggesting that the paleoenvironment of the interglacial periods was similar to that of the present day, whereas the glacial periods are marked by an increase in herbaceous pollen, mainly Gramineae and Cyperaceae, indicating that grassland covered the exposed continental shelf when sea level declined. Increased Artemisia percentages and the highest  相似文献   

全站仪内存记录导线观测数据的数据处理系统开发     

刘见开  冯精兵  卢红珊  汪中建 《地理空间信息》2012,(1):134-136,5

在导线测量外业观测过程中,采用全站仪内存进行电子记簿,针对其数据记录功能进行导线观测值提取、计算功能的二次开发,并做了相应的数据处理;充分利用其编码测量的功能,开发相应的数据处理程序模块,自动提取数据并转换成平差软件能识别的标准的统一的平差文件,减轻了劳动强度和减少了内、外业的工作量。  相似文献   

2008年初地面观测数据资料审核的异常分析及处理   总被引：7，自引：6，他引：1  

王海英  程爱珍  黄理  夏小曼 《气象研究与应用》2008,29(2):83-84,77

结合2008年1~2月地面气象观测A文件数据的审核情况,针对台站气压突跳的反常记录,通过理论分析,判断是因天气现象变化所致,同时对特殊天气现象如固态降水、积雪的观测记录,提出处理方法。  相似文献   

提高暗筒式日照纸感光质量的技巧   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

甘灿明 《气象研究与应用》2008,29(4):68-69

暗筒式日照计日照纸所用药品品质好坏、配药比例和涂药方法是否得当,是造成日照纸感光质量好坏的主要原因。本文针对部分测报员在日照纸配药、涂药和浸漂操作处理过程中存在的问题提出相关改进措施和建议。  相似文献