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- Di Baldassarre, Giuliano, et al.
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An integrative research framework to unravel the interplay of natural hazards and vulnerabilities
- 2018
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Ingår i: Earth's Future. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 2328-4277. ; 6:3, s. 305-310
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Climate change, globalization, urbanization, social isolation, and increased interconnectednessbetween physical, human, and technological systems pose major challenges to disaster risk reduction(DRR). Subsequently, economic losses caused by natural hazards are increasing in many regions of theworld, despite scientific progress, persistent policy action, and international cooperation. We argue thatthese dramatic figures call for novel scientific approaches and new types of data collection to integratethe two main approaches that still dominate the science underpinning DRR: the hazard paradigm and thevulnerability paradigm. Building from these two approaches, here we propose a research framework thatspecifies the scope of enquiry, concepts, and general relations among phenomena. We then discuss theessential steps to advance systematic empirical research and evidence-based DRR policy action.
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Klarälven
- 2011
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Det är en strävan inför framtiden att skapa en hållbar utveckling där sociala, ekonomiska och ekologiska aspekter vägs mot varandra i en kontinuerlig process. I denna bok har forskare, författare och lokalt historiskt verksamma personer samlats för att ge olika perspektiv på Klarälven med omnejder som ett bidrag för skapandet av en hållbarare framtid.
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- Koivisto, Jenni, 1980-
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Navigating in the Midst of Uncertainties : Challenges in Disaster Risk Governance in Mozambique
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Disasters cause heavy losses for societies and may quickly erode any development efforts. Consequently, disaster risk reduction (DRR) is an integral part of development work that should be addressed at multiple levels. Global DRR frameworks, scholars and practitioners all advocate disaster risk governance (DRG) strategies that are multi-stakeholder, polycentric and multisectoral. While various substantive knowledge gaps and questions arising from multiple risks and the crosscutting nature of DRR have been relatively well addressed, uncertainties relating to multiple DRR actors operating and collaborating at different scales have gained less attention in previous studies.This thesis investigates the uncertainties in DRG in Mozambique, a low-income country that regularly faces natural hazards. These hazards often cause heavy loss of life and livelihoods and economic damage. The four articles that together constitute this thesis focus on different sets of uncertainties and factors that have constrained or allowed Mozambique to take major steps in this policy area. By exploring strategic and institutional uncertainties related to stakeholder involvement, coordination and policy disputes, this thesis reveals different challenges and opportunities that affect DRR policymaking in Mozambique.This thesis concludes that Mozambique has managed to take important steps in DRR. However, as a consequence of the different challenges to DRR practice in Mozambique, policymaking can be short-sighted and makes slow progress, thus increasing the disconnect between theory, policies and practice. This thesis thus argues that DRG research and practice need to better take into account power-relations; coordination and capacity issues; and responsibilities and transparency across scales, both in Mozambique and elsewhere.
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- Mobjörk, Malin, et al.
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Facilitating Doctoral Education in Cross-disciplinary Milieus : Experiences from PhD-candidates
- 2019
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cross-disciplinarity shapes much research today and many PhD candidates areengaged in this research. The doctoral education is a formative phase in a scientist’sintellectual development. Despite a large body of research about cross-disciplinarity,less attention has focused on how cross-disciplinarity shapes doctoral education.This report explores the organisation of doctoral education in four cross-disciplinaryresearch milieus and the experiences of 14 PhD candidates enrolled in these milieus.One key finding is that PhD candidates are more comfortable when their educationhas involved meta-communication about conceptual approaches and experiencesof conducting cross-disciplinary research. This calls for research milieus’ providingdoctoral education in cross-disciplinary settings to take a deliberative approach.This will both benefit the PhD candidates and the research milieus, and is centralin the socialisation process of the next cadre of researchers and for the future ofcross-disciplinary research.
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- Nyberg, Lars, 1962-, et al.
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Klarälvdalen och en hållbar framtid
- 2011
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Ingår i: Klarälven. - Karlstad : Karlstad University Press. - 9789185335909 ; , s. 145-147
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Persson Pavlović, Erik, 1985-
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The weakest link : Governing the risk of floods and dam failure in Sweden
- 2023
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The effects of climate change are already being felt today, and future effects, which will be determined by the readiness and resolve of today’s world leaders, are fraught with high levels of complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity, and transboundary effects – characteristics of systemic risk. Since climate change is seen as a threat multiplier, the risks that might be impacted by climate change, such as floods and dam failure, will be affected by systemic risk characteristics as well. Recent literature on risk governance calls for a more inclusive approach to address the challenges of systemic risks. Sweden has adopted the Sendai Framework, which aims to reduce disaster risk and strengthen societal resilience through a more people-centered approach. Sweden can be expected to have the resources and institutional structures needed to be able to implement the framework at a high level. However, evaluations of recent crises have shown a discrepancy between what can be expected and actual performance. This thesis aims to increase the understanding of contextual barriers to and drivers of inclusive risk governance, with a focus on responsibilities, (mandated) collaboration, and stakeholder participation, as an approach to increase societal resilience against disaster and systemic risk. The aim is reached by studying flood-related systemic risks and their governance. Three distinct, qualitative case studies focusing on different aspects of the Swedish disaster risk reduction and risk governance systems in relation to the risk of floods and dam failure are the empirical foundation for the four papers that are appended in the thesis. The thesis concludes that there is a need for a change in how resilience is framed, as part of a paradigm shift to a discourse that views resilience as a measure of adaptive capacity, and a change in how systemic risks should be understood and governed, as part of a paradigm shift to an inclusive risk governance framework.
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- Andersson, Jan-Olov, et al.
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Kartering av översvämningsrisker vid Vänern
- 2013
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- I denna studie genomfördes en översvämningskartering och -analys som utgick från fyraextrema vattennivåer i Vänern. Baserat på höjddata från den Nya Nationella Höjdmodellen(NNH) generades utbredningspolygoner med hjälp av GIS för de fyra översvämningsnivåerna.Överlagringsanalyser gjordes sedan med kartskikt för väg, mark och byggnadersamt för vissa kommuner även befolkning för att urskilja vägsträckor, markområden,byggnader och boende inom översvämningsutbredningen vid de fyra nivåerna.Översvämningskartor togs fram i pdf-format och Google Earth-format. GIS-analysen hargenererat kvantitativa data för översvämmade vägsträckor, markytor antal byggnader etc.Vidare har en objektsbaserad analys genomförts utifrån kartmaterial och kommunala dataöver sårbara anläggningar och funktioner. Resultaten har sammanställts kommunvis ochför Vänerområdet i sin helhet i form av text, tabeller och diagram.Det som drabbas först vid en översvämning i Vänern är dels objekt som utifrån sinafunktioner ligger vattennära t.ex. fritidsanläggningar, men även viktiga vägar som E18 ochE45. Järnvägsträckan Göteborg-Karlstad-Stockholm översvämmas redan vid 100-årsnivån.Med stigande vattennivå drabbas allt fler objekt och samhällsviktiga funktioner. De städersom påverkas mest är Karlstad, Kristinehamn, Mariestad, Lidköping och Vänersborg.De direkta skadekostnaderna för en 100-årsnivå i Vänern har beräknats till 100-240 Mkr,där en möjlig vindeffekt kan ge ytterligare upp till 120 Mkr i skadekostnader. För endimensionerande nivå skulle skadekostnaderna bli av en helt annan storleksordning ochuppgå till ca 9,8 miljarder kr. Vid denna nivå skulle stora indirekta skador uppstå som viinte har haft möjlighet att värdera ekonomiskt. De största kostnaderna kan kopplas tillöversvämmade byggnader.I en absolut jämförelse med Mälaren av kvantitativa data för översvämmade vägar,markområden och antal byggnader är konsekvenserna vid Vänern något lägre.Studien genomfördes på uppdrag av och i samarbete medVänerkommunerna i samverkan omVänerns reglering.
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- Andersson, Jan-Olov, 1966-, et al.
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Spatial variation of wetlands and flux of dissolved organic carbon in boreal headwater streams
- 2008
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Ingår i: Hydrological Processes. - : Wiley. - 0885-6087 .- 1099-1085. ; :22, s. 1965-1975
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In order to investigate the relation between water chemistry and functional landscape elements, spatial data sets of characteristics for 68 small (0·2–1·5 km2) boreal forest catchments in western central Sweden were analysed in a geographical information system (GIS). The geographic data used were extracted from official topographic maps. Water sampled four times at different flow situations was analysed chemically. This paper focuses on one phenomenon that has an important influence on headwater quality in boreal, coniferous forest streams: generation and export of dissolved organic carbon (DOC). It is known that wetland cover (bogs and fens) in the catchment is a major source of DOC. In this study, a comparison was made between a large number of headwater catchments with varying spatial locations and areas of wetlands. How this variation, together with a number of other spatial variables, influences the DOC flux in the streamwater was analysed by statistical methods. There were significant, but not strong, correlations between the total percentages of wetland area and DOC flux measured at a medium flow situation, but not at high flow. Neither were there any significant correlations between the percentage of wetland area connected to streams, nor the percentage of wetland area within a zone 50 m from the stream and the DOC flux. There were, however, correlations between catchment mean slope and the DOC flux in all but one flow situations. This study showed that, considering geographical data retrieved from official sources, the topography of a catchment better explains the variation in DOC flux than the percentage and locations of distinct wetland areas. This emphasizes the need for high-resolution elevation models accurate enough to reveal the sources of DOC found in headwater streams.
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