AI and climate resilience governance
AI and climate resilience governance
While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions to address climate change impacts, it also raises many application limitations and challenges. A risk governance perspective is used to analyze the role of AI in supporting decision-making for climate adaptation, spanning risk assessment, policy analysis, and implementation. This comprehensive review combines expert insights and systematic literature review. The study's findings indicate a large emphasis on applying AI to climate “risk assessments,” particularly regarding hazard and exposure assessment, but a lack of innovative approaches and tools to evaluate resilience and vulnerability as well as prioritization and implementation process, all of which involve subjective, qualitative, and context-specific elements. Additionally, the study points out challenges such as difficulty of simulating complex long-term changes, and evolving policies and human behavior, reliance on data quality and computational resources, and the need for improved interpretability of results as areas requiring further development.
AI, AI for Sustainability, AI for social good, Artifical Intelligence, Climate Resilience, Compound Risks, Resilience Governance, Environmental science, Natural sciences, Environmental policy, Social sciences, Earth sciences
Mehryar, Sara
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Yazdanpanah, Vahid
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Tong, Jeffrey
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21 June 2024
Mehryar, Sara
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Yazdanpanah, Vahid
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Tong, Jeffrey
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Mehryar, Sara, Yazdanpanah, Vahid and Tong, Jeffrey
(2024)
AI and climate resilience governance.
iScience, 27 (6), [109812].
(doi:10.1016/j.isci.2024.109812).
Abstract
While artificial intelligence (AI) offers promising solutions to address climate change impacts, it also raises many application limitations and challenges. A risk governance perspective is used to analyze the role of AI in supporting decision-making for climate adaptation, spanning risk assessment, policy analysis, and implementation. This comprehensive review combines expert insights and systematic literature review. The study's findings indicate a large emphasis on applying AI to climate “risk assessments,” particularly regarding hazard and exposure assessment, but a lack of innovative approaches and tools to evaluate resilience and vulnerability as well as prioritization and implementation process, all of which involve subjective, qualitative, and context-specific elements. Additionally, the study points out challenges such as difficulty of simulating complex long-term changes, and evolving policies and human behavior, reliance on data quality and computational resources, and the need for improved interpretability of results as areas requiring further development.
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AI and Climate Resilience Governance - 2024 - iScience - Open Access
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Accepted/In Press date: 24 April 2024
e-pub ahead of print date: 26 April 2024
Published date: 21 June 2024
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Keywords:
AI, AI for Sustainability, AI for social good, Artifical Intelligence, Climate Resilience, Compound Risks, Resilience Governance, Environmental science, Natural sciences, Environmental policy, Social sciences, Earth sciences
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/489507
ISSN: 2589-0042
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