Glossary
Glossary
Ability to prepare
Primarily the social factors that enable individuals or communities to prepare for heat waves or floods. With respect to floods this includes factors such as income, insurance and local knowledge.
Lindley, S., O’Neill, J., Kandeh, J., Lawson, N., Christian, R. & O’Neill M. (2011) “Climate change, justice and vulnerability”, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, York
Ability to recover
Primarily the social factors that enable individuals and communities to immediately respond to heat waves and flood events, such as income, insurance, personal mobility, fear of crime, community networks and local knowledge.
Lindley, S., O’Neill, J., Kandeh, J., Lawson, N., Christian, R. & O’Neill M. (2011) “Climate change, justice and vulnerability”, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, York
Ability to respond
Primarily the social factors that enable individuals and communities to immediately respond to heat waves and flood events, such as income, insurance, personal mobility, fear of crime, community networks and local knowledge.
Lindley, S., O’Neill, J., Kandeh, J., Lawson, N., Christian, R. & O’Neill M. (2011) “Climate change, justice and vulnerability”, Joseph Rowntree Foundation Report, York
Adaptation (to climate change)
Actions to reduce the vulnerability of a system to the negative impacts of anticipated human-induced climate change.
Adaptation Sub-Committee
The Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC) is a sub-committee of the Committee on Climate Change (CCC), established under the UK’s Climate Change Act 2008. The ASC provides expert advice and scrutiny through the CCC, ensuring that the Government’s programme for adaptation enables the UK to prepare effectively for the impacts of climate change.
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Adaptive capacity
Adaptive capacity is the ability or potential of a system to respond successfully to climate variability and change, and includes adjustments in both behaviour and in resources and technologies.
Aggregate fuel poverty gap
(See also fuel poverty gap). The sum of the fuel poverty gap of all fuel poor households, or when talking about a specific subset of fuel poor households (e.g. those living in private rented accommodation), the sum of the fuel poverty gap for all households in that subset.
Allowable Solutions
This is part of the Government's Zero Carbon Homes policy. Allowable solutions allow off-site projects or measures that reduce carbon emissions, which house builders may support to achieve the zero carbon homes standard when building new homes rather than delivering all carbon reduction savings required on site. This could be done by the developer paying into a fund managed by a local authority, for example, which the local authority could then use for energy efficiency projects. See Next steps to Zero Carbon Homes Allowable Solutions consultation
Annual exceedance probability
Annual exceedance probability (AEP) describes the probability of an event (e.g. a flood of a given magnitude) occurring in any given year. AEP is approximately equivalent to the inverse of return period (in years). For example, 3.3% AEP refers to a return period of 1 in 30 years. However, the return period is not the inverse of AEP for very frequent events (see Sayers et al., 2015).