Combining qualitative and quantitative understanding for exploring cross-sectoral climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in Europe

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dc.contributor.authorHarrison, Paula A.
dc.contributor.authorHolman, Ian P.
dc.contributor.authorCojocaru, George
dc.contributor.authorKok, Kasper
dc.contributor.authorKontogianni, Areti
dc.contributor.authorMetzger, Marc J.
dc.contributor.authorGramberger, Marc
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-10T10:03:01Z
dc.date.available2016-03-10T10:03:01Z
dc.date.issued2013-08-01
dc.description.abstractClimate change will affect all sectors of society and the environment at all scales, ranging from the continental to the national and local. Decision-makers and other interested citizens need to be able to access reliable science-based information to help them respond to the risks of climate change impacts and assess opportunities for adaptation. Participatory integrated assessment (IA) tools combine knowledge from diverse scientific disciplines, take account of the value and importance of stakeholder ‘lay insight’ and facilitate a two-way iterative process of exploration of ‘what if’s’ to enable decision-makers to test ideas and improve their understanding of the complex issues surrounding adaptation to climate change. This paper describes the conceptual design of a participatory IA tool, the CLIMSAVE IA Platform, based on a professionally facilitated stakeholder engagement process. The CLIMSAVE (climate change integrated methodology for cross-sectoral adaptation and vulnerability in Europe) Platform is a user-friendly, interactive web-based tool that allows stakeholders to assess climate change impacts and vulnerabilities for a range of sectors, including agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts, water resources and urban development. The linking of models for the different sectors enables stakeholders to see how their interactions could affect European landscape change. The relationship between choice, uncertainty and constraints is a key cross-cutting theme in the conduct of past participatory IA. Integrating scenario development processes with an interactive modelling platform is shown to allow the exploration of future uncertainty as a structural feature of such complex problems, encouraging stakeholders to explore adaptation choices within real-world constraints of future resource availability and environmental and institutional capacities, rather than seeking the ‘right’ answers.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationPaula A. Harrison, Ian P. Holman, George Cojocaru, Kasper Kok, Areti Kontogianni, Marc J. Metzger and Marc Gramberger, Combining qualitative and quantitative understanding for exploring cross-sectoral climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in Europe. Regional Environmental Change, August 2013, Vol.13, Iss.4, pp761-780en_UK
dc.identifier.issn1436-3798
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10113-012-0361-y
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/9772
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rights(c)The Author(s) 2012. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited. (Actual licence not specified on the website 10.3.2016)
dc.subjectClimate change impactsen_UK
dc.subjectAdaptationen_UK
dc.subjectVulnerabilityen_UK
dc.subjectIntegrateden_UK
dc.subjectScenariosen_UK
dc.subjectCross-sectoralen_UK
dc.titleCombining qualitative and quantitative understanding for exploring cross-sectoral climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability in Europeen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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