«In my career, I've had the opportunity to address risk
management in a variety of capacities — from the position of deputy general counsel advising the C - suite to being a hands - on participant in crafting policies, staffing and redesigning conflicts processes.
Not exact matches
• Improved understanding
of climate thresholds and vulnerabilities, impacts, and adaptive responses
in a
variety of different local contexts across the country • Improved understanding
of vulnerable populations (e.g., urban poor, native populations on tribal lands) that have limited
capacities for responding to climate change • Ways to build adaptive
capacity that can be generalized across individuals, communities, and countries • Decision support tools for entities responsible for hazard mitigation and
management • Collection
of socioeconomic research to inform impact, vulnerability, and adaptation research
Costs are defined
in a
variety of ways and under a
variety of assumptions that affect their value ► Cost types include: ► administrative costs
of planning,
management, monitoring, audits, accounting, reporting, clerical activities, etc. associated with a project or program; ► damage costs to ecosystems, economies and people due to negative effects from climate change; ► implementation costs
of changing existing rules and regulation,
capacity building efforts, information, training and education, etc. to put a policy into place; ► private costs are carried by individuals, companies or other private entities that undertake the action, where ► social costs include additionally the external costs on the environment and on society as a whole.