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The State of the Planet: From Anthropocene Dominant to Regenerative-Adaptive Futures Read chapter Read first chapter

2021 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

3. The Challenge of a Changing Environment

Author : Phillip B. Roös

Published in: Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development

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Abstract

 Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time. The impacts from a changing climate will affect both built environments and the natural world, requiring a new holistic approach to adaptation and the establishment ofc All decisions relating to the built environment, future planning of our cities, assessments of environmental impacts, identifying risks, setting standards and codes, are made based on data and knowledge of the past. The future will be very different and the challenges we face in a changing environment, from the degrading of ecosystems to a drastic change in the climate, will force us to consider a new knowledge system. Resilience comes from having the capacity to mitigate and diminish impacts or to adapt to change. It signifies the capacity of a system to absorb disturbances and surprises, achieving a state of dynamic equilibrium, that enables systems to grow and evolve while keeping their coherence. In the face of a rapid changing climate, this is indeed a complex, magnitude in scale, global issue. Due to the complexity of climate change and its related impacts, in this chapter we explore impacts and issues that will assist in framing the overall narrative in relation how we need to consider the application of fundamental patterns as part of the regenerative-adaptive pattern language approach, to adapt to a challenging and changing environment. The chapter concludes with the fundamental pattern Climate Change Co-Adaptation [3], informing us that adaptation practice needs to include both humans and nature.

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Footnotes
1
An interaction in which a perturbation in one climate quantity causes a change in a second, and the change in the second quantity ultimately leads to an additional change in the first. A negative feedback is one in which the initial perturbation is weakened by the changes it causes; a positive feedback is one in which the initial perturbation is enhanced. In the IPCC fifth Assessment Report, Working Group III contribution to the IPCC fifth Assessment Report - Mitigation to Climate Change Technical Summary Final Draft, a somewhat narrower definition is often used in which the climate quantity that is perturbed is the global mean surface temperature, which in turn causes changes in the global radiation budget. In either case, the initial perturbation can either be externally forced or arise as part of internal variability (IPCC, 2014a, p. 1450).
 
2
CO2 records provided by CO2.earth, compiled from two independent records and databases, NOAA-ESRL and SCRIPPS UCSD. Retrieved on 6 January 2020, from https://​www.​co2.​earth
 
3
Maladaptation is defined in the IPCC Climate Change 2001: Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - Enhancing Adaptive Capacity report as ‘an adaptation that does not succeed in reducing vulnerability but increases it instead’ (IPCC, 2001, p. 990). Barnett & O’Neill define maladaptation as: ‘action taken ostensibly to avoid or reduce vulnerability to climate change that impacts adversely on, or increases the vulnerability of other systems, sectors or social groups’ (Barnett & O’Neil, 2010).
 
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Metadata
Title
The Challenge of a Changing Environment
Author
Phillip B. Roös
Copyright Year
2021
Book
Regenerative-Adaptive Design for Sustainable Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-53233-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-53234-5

Copyright Year: 2021

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53234-5_3