دانلود رایگان مقاله انگلیسی مدیریت ریسک اقلیمی و بخش برق - الزویر 2017

Abstract:

The electric utility industry is an important player in the climate change arena, both as a significant emitter of global emissions and as an industry vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. A climate risk management approach uses risk assessments and decision analyses to identify potential adaptation options. We review the existing literature on climate risk management in the electric utility industry, with a focus on four areas of interest: (1) climate change impacts; (2) measurements of risk; (3) stakeholder engagement and cross-sectoral collaboration; and (4) adaptation actions. Overall, we find significant emphasis on the identification of potential climate change impacts and opportunities for adaptation, but less attention paid to assessments of risk, stakeholder engagement, and cross-sectoral collaboration in climate risk management. We find considerable diversity in the types of adaptation actions, methods for measuring risk, and mechanisms for engaging stakeholders. We offer some suggestions to move beyond more fragmented approaches to climate risk management, including the adoption of more holistic approaches, heightened stakeholder and cross-sectoral engagement, and greater collaboration between researchers and electric utilities.

4. Synthesis and Future Directions

Overall, we found that the majority of papers reviewed here focused both on identifying potential climate change impacts and providing suggestions for adaptation. Measuring the risk of climate change impacts and engaging stakeholders were also themes, but not as strongly covered in the papers reviewed. We found diversity in the types of adaptation actions, methods for measuring risk, and mechanisms for engaging stakeholders across the papers, revealing the larger context of how climate change is experienced and adapted to by the electric utility industry around the world. The more fragmented approach to climate risk management that we uncover here with regard to electric utilities falls short of the ideal of the risk and decision analysis needed to support adaptation to climate change. To move beyond this more fragmented approach, we outline some potential next steps to help advance more holistic risk management, heightened stakeholder engagement and cross-sector collaboration and partnerships between researchers and utilities in climate risk management.