Identification of Major Climate Change Impact Areas Based on a Network Analysis and Review of the Corresponding Laws for Adaptation
김은아
Kim, Eun-Ah
Climate change affects numerous aspects of our lives and threatens human society in diverse pathways. Climate crisis comprises both direct impacts in nature such as extreme weather, natural disaster, and sea-level rise and indirect impacts of the cascading events such as health problems, food shortage, and degradation of the human settlement. In order to effectively minimize series of damage from these interlinked climate impacts, we need to intervene at the starting point of climate change impact chains or the center of an impact network. This study investigated the impact chains of climate change based on the text analysis of IPCC assessment reports 1 ~ 6 and identified the five major climate impact areas of water resource management, coastal ecosystem integrity, protecting health from climate impacts, natural disaster response, and food supply. These five areas are of top priority policy in climate change adaptation, and we analyzed the fidelity of the corresponding laws with regard to mitigating vulnerability. The current climate change framework acts address the priority areas and the individual laws of various subject areas are supposed to supplement the framework acts. However, review of the individual laws in the priority areas suggest lack of proper reflection of climate vulnerability analysis results and the need for amendments to better mitigate future vulnerability.
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