Community Adaptation & Resilience Flashcards
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The '100 Resilient Cities' network, pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, introduced which key role in city government?
Answer: Chief Resilience Officer (CRO)
The 100 Resilient Cities initiative supported cities in hiring Chief Resilience Officers (CROs) to coordinate cross-departmental resilience planning and implementation.
In climate justice frameworks, 'procedural justice' in adaptation planning refers to:
Answer: Including marginalized communities in decision-making processes for adaptation plans
Procedural justice focuses on fair and inclusive participation in decision-making processes, ensuring marginalized voices shape adaptation priorities.
Which concept describes communities' ability to maintain critical functions during a climate disturbance while simultaneously adapting and transforming?
Answer: Dynamic resilience
Dynamic resilience encompasses the ability to maintain function (absorb), adapt to new conditions (adapt), and fundamentally transform when necessary—all simultaneously.
A municipality implements a voluntary property buyout program in a repeatedly flooded neighborhood and converts the land to a greenway. This is an example of:
Answer: Hazard mitigation through managed retreat and land use change
Voluntary buyout programs combined with conversion to open space represent managed retreat that reduces future flood exposure while creating community amenities.
What does 'risk layering' mean in the context of community climate finance?
Answer: Using different financial instruments at different risk levels to cover climate losses
Risk layering combines instruments like contingency funds, parametric insurance, and catastrophe bonds to cover different tiers of climate loss frequency and severity.
Urban climate adaptation plans that co-locate affordable housing with transit, green space, and energy efficiency upgrades are applying which planning concept?
Answer: Climate-smart equitable development
Climate-smart equitable development integrates adaptation benefits (green space, efficiency) with social equity goals (affordable housing, transit access) in a unified planning approach.
When a community conducts a 'stress test' of its adaptation plan against multiple future climate scenarios, it is practicing:
Answer: Scenario planning and robust decision-making
Scenario planning with robust decision-making tests adaptation strategies against a range of plausible futures to identify options that perform well across uncertainty.