Secondly, we show how an assessment and planning approach, designed to address uncertainty and change (the Dynamic Adaptive Policy Pathways (DAPP) planning approach), has been integrated into national guidance for coastal hazard and climate change decision-making in New Zealand.
Our results, like those of other studies, show that there is no "one-size-fits-all" response to climate change; appropriate decisions will be informed by a range of factors specific to each site, and will probably be most effective when taking into consideration changes and management actions at other sites.
Despite growing evidence that considering climatic changes is an imperative for resilient future infrastructure, management agencies rarely incorporate climate change into decision-making processes.
By deciding to adapt to climate change — a decision that has already been partly made, because significant warming is already baked into the system — we have decided to embrace a world of walls.
Klein took a swipe at Barack Obama in her interview with the Guardian, saying that although the US president had made some "great speeches" and introduced some good proposals recently on climate change, his decision to open up the Arctic to drilling by Shell was "wholly incompatible with climate leadership".
The Trump administration's aggressive rollback of regulations to curb climate change and decision to install fossil fuel executives and industry allies in key environmental posts hardened the Republican Party's stance on the issue and gave Democrats an easy avatar around which to rally.
"It's time investors recognised this as well and factored political action on climate change into their decisions on fossil fuel investments," she told the Financial Times.
Also known for: Trying to have federal agencies, including the Interior Department, consider the impact on climate change when making decisions on land-use planning and on what kinds of activities to permit on public lands.
"Events refocus minds on climate change and difficult decisions", Irish Times, April 14 , 2014
