1. Climate adaptation services for the Netherlands: An operational approach to support spatial adaptation planning
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Goosen, H., de Groot-Reichwein, M. A M, Masselink, L., Koekoek, A., Swart, R., Bessembinder, J., Witte, J. M P, Stuyt, L., Blom-Zandstra, G., Immerzeel, W., Hydrologie, Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology, Hydrologie, and Landscape functioning, Geocomputation and Hydrology
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Climate impacts ,Decision support system ,Political economy of climate change ,design ,Vulnerability ,Climate change ,Ecological forecasting ,gap ,land use planning ,landgebruik ,stakeholders ,Visualisation ,Agro Water- en Biobased Economy ,Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing ,Alterra - Centre for Water and Climate ,thinking ,Laboratorium voor Geo-informatiekunde en Remote Sensing ,Adaptation ,Adaptation (computer science) ,Spatial planning ,visualization ,Climate services ,Global and Planetary Change ,decision-support ,climatic change ,business.industry ,maps ,Environmental resource management ,land use ,Land-use planning ,klimaatverandering ,PE&RC ,knowledge transfer ,landgebruiksplanning ,Climate Resilience ,Klimaatbestendigheid ,tools ,kennisoverdracht ,Business ,Alterra - Centrum Water en Klimaat - Abstract
There is a growing availability of climate change information, offered to scientists and policy makers through climate services. However, climate services are not well taken up by the policy-making and planning community. Climate services focus on primary impacts of climate change, e.g., the disclosure of precipitation and temperature data, and this seems insufficient in meeting their needs. In this paper, we argue that, in order to reach the spatial planning community, climate services should take on a wider perspective by translating climate data to policy-relevant indicators and by offering support in the design of adaptation strategies. We argue there should be more focus on translating consequences of climate change to land-use claims and subsequently discuss the validity, consequences and implications of these claims with stakeholders, so they can play a role in spatial planning processes where much of the climate adaptation takes place. The term Climate Adaptation Services is introduced as being a stepwise approach supporting the assessment of vulnerability in a wider perspective and include the design and appraisal of adaptation strategies in a multi-stakeholder setting. We developed the Climate Adaptation Atlas and the Climate Ateliers as tools within the Climate Adaptation Services approach to support decision-making and planning processes. In this paper, we describe the different steps of our approach and report how some of the challenges were addressed.
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- 2014
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