Objective
CLIMSAVE will develop and apply an integrated methodology for stakeholder-led, climate change impact and vulnerability assessment that explicitly evaluates regional and continental scale adaptation options, and cross-sectoral interactions between the key sectors driving landscape change in Europe (agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts/floodplains, water resources, urban development and transport). A range of sectoral meta-models will be linked within a common assessment platform that is user-friendly, interactive and web-based to allow the rapid reproduction of climate change impacts by stakeholders themselves. The meta-models will be derived from detailed state-of-the-art models which represent the latest results on impacts of, and vulnerability to, climate change and which are appropriate for multi-scale spatially explicit impact studies. Indicator metrics, which translate the outputs from the integrated models into ecosystem services outcomes, will create a standardised approach across sectors ensuring comparability in quantifying impacts and vulnerability. The integrated assessment platform will use these metrics to identify hotspots of climate change vulnerability and provide the ability to assess adaptation strategies for reducing these vulnerabilities, in terms of their cost-effectiveness and cross-sectoral benefits and conflicts. Methods for reducing uncertainties and increasing the transparency of model and scenario assumptions will be implemented to inform the development of robust policy responses. A series of professionally facilitated workshops will identify stakeholder needs and test an innovative methodology for participatory scenario development specifically geared towards interactive climate change impact and adaptation assessment. Two sets of three workshops at two levels (European and regional) will ensure that the CLIMSAVE methodologies work at different scales and provide for continuity of engagement and mutual learning.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrology
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementclimate change adaptation
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2009-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research projectCoordinator
OX1 2JD Oxford
United Kingdom
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Participants (17)
010966 Bucharest
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3140 Keerbergen
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1053 Budapest
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MK43 0AL Cranfield - Bedfordshire
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08193 Bellaterra
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34125 Kassel
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613 00 Brno Sever
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81100 Mytilini
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1170 BRUXELLES
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1090 WIEN
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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22100 LUND
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6708 PB Wageningen
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SO17 1BJ Southampton
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100081 BEIJING
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4556 Sippy Downs
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3011 Footscray
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