A Research by Design Strategy for Climate Adaptation Solutions: Implementation in the Low-Density, High Flood Risk Context of the Lake District, UK
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
It is a good research topic with strong supports of figures and tables in results.
Introduction, Discussion and other sections are also fine with enough references and reasonable citations. However, the citation form in the text body should be used with numbers, such as [1], [2], [3] etc. to replace the form of citation such as (Adger, 2003; Biesbroek et al., 2009; Bosello et al., 2010; Lee et al., 2020) etc.
So it needs to make a minor revision as above mentioned points.
Author Response
We would like to thank very much the reviewer for the comments and suggestions on this paper. Response to the reviewer’s remark:
However, the citation form in the text body should be used with numbers, such as [1], [2], [3] etc. to replace the form of citation such as (Adger, 2003; Biesbroek et al., 2009; Bosello et al., 2010; Lee et al., 2020) etc..
Re: Citations format has been accordingly adjusted.
Reviewer 2 Report
The research paper is very well writen - clear and consice. The research topic is also very relevant, and the methods and results provide valueable insights for urban planners and urban stakeholders at large.
Only very minor suggestions:
- references have contrasting styles (text versus references section)
- line 109, please note that the UHI effect is not a ''negative impact of climate change''. The UHI effect occurs irrespective of climate change scenarios, and, in some cases, is reduced during heatwave events. I.e., the relation between the UHI intensity and the absolute air temperature is not globally established. Therefore, suggest to clarify the UHI as an environmental/climatic hazard, but as an addition to climate change;
- line 656, the absence of user engagement strategies is indeed a major limitation of the proccess, as the solutions presented require the full aceptance by the local community; suggest to add to this paragraph that future work could (should) include a co-design and/or public consultation stage in which proposed solutions may be adjusted to the local inhabitants requirements and preferences.
Author Response
We would like to thank very much the reviewer for the comments and suggestions on this paper. Responses to the reviewer’s remarks and subsequent text modifications are listed as follows:
- In references have contrasting styles (text versus references section)
Re: Citations and reference list format reviewed and corrected.
- line 109, please note that the UHI effect is not a ''negative impact of climate change''. The UHI effect occurs irrespective of climate change scenarios, and, in some cases, is reduced during heatwave events. I.e., the relation between the UHI intensity and the absolute air temperature is not globally established. Therefore, suggest to clarify the UHI as an environmental/climatic hazard, but as an addition to climate change;
Re: We thank the reviewer for addressing this issue. This paragraph is accordingly modified to include this clarification about UHI.
- line 656, the absence of user engagement strategies is indeed a major limitation of the proccess, as the solutions presented require the full aceptance by the local community; suggest to add to this paragraph that future work could (should) include a co-design and/or public consultation stage in which proposed solutions may be adjusted to the local inhabitants requirements and preferences.
Re: Comment much appreciated and incorporated into that paragraph where we also acknowledge that future work must include co-design and public consultation stages.
Reviewer 3 Report
It is a very interesting paper. I think that authors should also discuss the importance of their study into a context of improving the dissemination/divulgation of outputs from Early Warning Systems (see Kelman and Glantz 2014; De Luca and Versace 2017) to population, in order to better facilitate the Civil Protection Mechanisms (see https://ec.europa.eu/echo/what/civil-protection/mechanism_en)
References
- Kelman I., Glantz M.H. (2014) Early Warning Systems Defined. In: Singh A., Zommers Z. (eds) Reducing Disaster: Early Warning Systems For Climate Change. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3_5 (see also https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-017-8598-3_5)
- De Luca D.L.; Versace P. (2017). Diversity of Rainfall Thresholds for early warning of hydro-geological disasters. Advances in Geosciences, 44: 53-60, ISSN: 1680-7359, DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-44-53-2017
Author Response
We would like to thank very much the anonymous reviewer for the comments and suggestions on this paper. Response to the reviewer’s remark and subsequent text modifications:
- I think that authors should also discuss the importance of their study into a context of improving the dissemination/divulgation of outputs from Early Warning Systems (see Kelman and Glantz 2014; De Luca and Versace 2017) to population, in order to better facilitate the Civil Protection Mechanisms (see https://ec.europa.eu/echo/what/civil-protection/mechanism_en).
Re: Citations added in the section 2.1 (first paragraph). We also address the potential contribution of the proposed strategy to early warning systems and civil protection mechanisms in the discussion section 5.3
