PEER Climate Change Initiative Project 1
Comparative Study of European National Adaptation Strategies
Over the last few decades, European countries
have focused on the question if climate change is real, and how we can mitigate
it. Now, when actual impacts have been observed and more are projected, many
countries have started developing national adaptation strategies. How they have
done so, which research gaps and policy needs still exist and which lessons are
to be learned to develop adaptation policy was studied in this project.
The research tasks of the project
The project aimed at supporting both European adaptation policy development and the development of national and the European adaptation research agenda. In this context the participating partners formulated the following two major objectives:
• Policy support: compare characteristics of existing or planned national adaptation strategies and derive innovative ideas for development and implementation of adaptation strategies.
• Research agenda: on the basis of national strategies, identify interesting new research areas to strengthen national and European research activities in the area of adaptation.
The project focused on six key dimensions of national strategies: drivers, science-policy interactions, communication and awareness raising, multilevel governance issues, integration into sector policies, and evaluation and review. It focused on 13 EU member states.
Research team
Alterra: Rob Swart (project leader), Robbert Biesbroek
CEH: Michael Morecroft, Daniela Rey, Caroline Cowan (Natural England)
CEMAGREF: Sophie Loquen
NERI: Thomas Henrichs, Svend Binnerup
SYKE: Tim Carter, Hanna Mela
UFZ: Moritz Reese
Time schedule
The project started in March 2008 and was finalized early 2009.
Report
The final report will be published by PEER in June 2009.
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