A project that aims to provide policy guidelines for climate adaptation by integrating lessons from past experiences, case studies, insights provided by modelling and stakeholder participation.
48 months from 01/10/2012 to 30/09/2016
http://base-adaptation.eu/
- European Commission - FP7, Environment (including Climate change)
Coordinating organization
- AU - Aarhus Uiversitet
CMCC Scientific Leader
CMCC Project manager
CMCC Institutes
- Institute for Climate Resilience
- European Institute on Economics and the Environment
- Institute for Earth System Predictions
CMCC Divisions
General aims
Climate change can disrupt ecological, social and economic systems, with some regions and sectors suffering significantly. Therefore, adaptation plays a paramount role in responding to climate change.
Progress has been made, but there are still important obstacles. Knowledge of the benefits and costs of adaptation is sparse, unsystematic and unevenly distributed across sectors and countries. Planning suffers from substantial uncertainties in terms of precise impacts. It is also difficult to reconcile the bottom-up nature of adaptation with top-down strategic policy making on adaptation.
To address these challenges BASE will:
- Improve adaptation knowledge availability, integration and utilization
Case studies will be used to understand facilitators of, and barriers to, adaptation.
The gap between top-down strategic assessments of costs and benefits and empirical context-sensitive bottom-up analyses will be bridged using novel combinations of models and qualitative analyses. - Promote and strengthen stakeholder participation in adaptation
BASE will support stakeholder involvement through novel participatory and co-design techniques. Successful bottom-up initiatives will be studied, and the use of knowledge, two-way learning, the role of social media and other awareness raising methods and tools will be explored. - Support coherent, multi-level, multi-sector integrated adaptation policies
CMCC Role
Within BASE, CMCC will develop a top-down assessment of adaptation policies at the EU level, will develop a case study on urban adaptation to sea-level rise, will support the linkage to the EU Adaptation Clearing House Mechanism (now termed EU Climate Adaptation Platform -CLIMATE-ADAPT).
CMCC will primarily contribute to WP3 on “Models and Tool development for top-down approaches to integrated assessment” and WP6 on “Integrating adaptation”.
Partners
- AU - Aarhus Uiversitet
- ECOLOGIC - Ecologic institute
- FFCUL - Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa
- CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
- UFZ - Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung GMBH
- UNEXE - University of Exteter
- Deltares
- BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change - Klima Aldaketa Ikergai
- SYKE - Suomen Ympäristökeskus
- ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale
- UNIVLEEDS - University of Leeds
- UPM - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
- CVGZ - Centrum Vyzkumu Globalni Zmeny
- DBT - Fonden Teknologirådet