Quantifying climate risk and building resilience in the UK / Suraje Dessai, Kate Lonsdale, Jason Lowe, Rachel Harcourt, editors

Chapter 1 Introducing the UK Climate Resilience Programme -- Chapter 2 Climate Resilience: interpretations of the term and implications for practice -- Chapter 3 Towards a step change in co-production for climate resilience -- Chapter 4 Learning from organisational embedding for climate resilience -- Chapter 5 Putting climate resilience in its place: developing spatially literate climate adaptation initiatives -- Chapter 6 Learning from arts and humanities approaches to building climate resilience in the UK -- Chapter 7 What have we learnt from the climate service projects delivered through the UK Climate Resilience Programme? -- Chapter 8 What insights can the programme share on developing decision support tools? -- Chapter 9 Improved understanding and characterisation of climate hazards in the UK -- Chapter 10 Future changes in indicators of climate hazard and resource in the UK -- Chapter 11 What has been learned about converting climate hazard data to climate risks information? -- Afterword

This open access book draws together key research from the UK Climate Resilience programme. It focuses on topics central to the programmes research agenda, including improved characterisation and quantification of climate risks, enhanced understanding of the management of climate risks, and the development and delivery of climate services. Key chapters address the challenges inherent to undertaking resilience research, including how to make the term climate resilience usable and useful, co-producing research between academics, policy makers and practitioners, and engaging and communicating outside of academia. This book is unique in providing a concise and accessible overview of the programmes key lessons, placing the findings into a wider context and it will inform future research, policy and practice agendas. Suraje Dessai is Professor of Climate Change Adaptation in the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. Kate Lonsdale is a Director at Climate Sense, a group that supports organisations to navigate the complex internal and external challenges of decision making for adaptation. Jason Lowe is Chair in Interdisciplinary Climate Research at the Priestley Centre at the University of Leeds and Head of Climate Services/Principal Fellow at the Met Office. Rachel Harcourt is a research fellow in climate resilience in the Priestley Centre at the University of Leeds