Knowra Climate resilience Climate resilience Climate resilience is the capacity of social or ecological systems to absorb climate disturbances while retaining or adapting their essential functions.
Resilience (ecology) : The capacity of an ecosystem to absorb disturbance and reorganize while retaining its structure and functions. Climate resilience draws on this idea but includes human systems and climate-specific pressures.
Climate-resilient infrastructure : Infrastructure planned, designed, and operated to withstand climate hazards and continue providing essential services. Its reliability under heat, floods, and storms is a direct test of climate resilience.
Climate justice : An approach to climate change that examines the distribution of its harms, benefits, and decision-making power. Resilience efforts can reduce risk unevenly or reproduce existing inequalities.
Climate change mitigation : Human actions that reduce greenhouse-gas emissions or increase greenhouse-gas removals. Mitigation limits future climate hazards, while resilience addresses systems’ capacity to cope with impacts.
Resilience measurement : Methods for assessing a system’s capacity to withstand, adapt to, or recover from disturbance. Measures must specify which functions, timescales, and groups count as resilient.
Adaptive capacity : The ability of a system or community to adjust to actual or expected conditions and reduce harm. It describes the resources and capabilities that let climate resilience develop.
Urban resilience : The capacity of a city and its systems to withstand, adapt to, and recover from disruptions. Cities concentrate people, infrastructure, and services exposed to climate hazards.
Disaster risk reduction : Policies and actions that prevent new disaster risks, reduce existing risks, and manage residual risks. It links resilience-building to reducing losses from climate-related disasters.
Climate-proofing : The practice of modifying plans or projects to account for climate risks and reduce future damage. Unlike climate-proofing a project, resilience concerns a system’s ability to persist, adapt, or transform.
Maladaptation : An adaptation action that increases vulnerability or risk for other groups, places, or future periods. An intervention can improve local resilience while shifting climate risk elsewhere.
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