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Change — Adapting to The Impacts, by Communities in Northern
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Project activities The Project activities are divided up into 5 separate work packages 1. Project management and communication 2. Identifying local and regional climate change impacts 3. Identifying community adaptation opportunities 4. Implementing adaptation demonstration projects 5. Establishing a community climate change impact adaptation training service Project management and communication The project coordinator is the UHI Millennium Institute, Scotland Contact: Clive Bowman: clive.bowman@perth.uhi.ac.uk Local climate change impacts The activity coordinator is the Western Norway Research Institute Contact: Carlo Aall: caa@vestforsk.no We will provide communities with an evidence base of the combined possible impacts of climate change and changes in society, by producing a number of potential local or regional climate change vulnerability scenarios. Each participating region will create its own visualizations of likely direct and indirect impacts of climate and societal changes; these will be integrated through the use of common data sets and scenarios of future emissions of greenhouse gases, as well as existing downscaling models for climate change. The project will develop a common methodology for making societal change scenarios, and how to downscale these to local or regional levels. When downscaling the societal change scenarios, we will make use of local knowledge and experience through stakeholder meetings. These meetings will also be used to arrive at integrated local or regional climate change vulnerability scenario(s). The outputs from this work package will be tailored to the needs of each community and be in a form that is easily understood and communicated, allowing each community to make informed adaptation decisions. back The activity coordinator is the Lycksele Municipality, Sweden Contact:to be confirmed Work within each region will address a number of separate communities, and climate change impacts relevant to certain themes and sectors of interest to that community. The outputs from work package 2 will be the basis for communities to identify adaptation opportunities, and allow businesses and administrations to assess how to avoid or reduce the negative impacts of climate change (risks) while taking advantage of positive impacts. A consistent approach to stakeholder participation will be adopted in all partner regions. The establishment of a communication and ideas exchange network will be encouraged and facilitated between transnational communities. This work package will explore the relevance of national and local political structures and policies, available EU, national and local funding sources, and the extent of support from the public, voluntary and business sectors for developing and implementing community climate change adaptation strategies. back Demonstration Projects The activity coordinator is the UHI Millennium Institute, Scotland Contact: Ian Kelly: ikelly@g-s.co.uk By evaluating the actual development and implementation of a number of real adaptation activities carried out by communities the Clim-ATIC project hopes to identify and understand the issues relevant to stakeholders at a local level. The 13 proposed demonstration projects are likely to have the following specific outcomes: Theme 1: Sustainable transport 2. Adaptation within destination Åre to changing business pressures and opportunities arising from climate change, Sweden. 3. Adapting dogsledging to changes in the arctic climate, Greenland. Theme 2: Sustainable energy management 5. Adapting a local woodland management plan to the impacts of climate change, Lycksele, Sweden. 6. A demonstration project to use waste from the fishing industry to create energy in the form of bio-gas or bio-oil, in Sisimiut, Greenland. Theme 3: Tourism opportunities 7. 'Stay & Play' - selling alternative activities to the winter sports market in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland8. Future tourism prospects for local communities in Finnish Lapland 9. Develop a prototype lightweight and sustainable tourist hut in Greenland. Theme 4: Risk management and response 10. A river restoration project in Glen Urquhart, Scotland, to increase ecological and social benefits, whist mitigating flood risk.11. A GIS flood risk management system in Kittilä and Rovaniemi, Finland 12. Early Warning – developing and testing a people-centered system of early warnings for extreme weather events, by the use of modern technology, the County of Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Training and advice service relating to community climate change adaptation. The activity coordinator is the UHI Millennium Institute, Scotland and the Thule Institute at University of Oulu (UArctic). Contact: Martin Price: Martin.Price@perth.uhi.ac.uk or Kirsi Latola: Kirsi.Latola@oulu.fi This work package will bring together knowledge and experience from both the five participating regions and across the Northern Periphery, on how to develop community capacity to adapt and how to deliver local adaptations. This knowledge will form the basis for establishing an affordable, accessible, relevant and up to date information, training, and advice service on climate change and adaptation at the community level. Following a feasibility study and development of a business plan, the service will be designed to deliver to its target audiences (local communities, local businesses, local entrepreneurs, local administrations and local politicians), keep abreast of current knowledge, and develop into an essential international source of knowledge and training.
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Project coordinator: UHI
Millennium Institute, Perth College, Crieff Road, Perth,
Scotland (UK), PH1 2NX
Tel: (+)44 1738 877000 • Fax: (+)44 1738 877001 • Clive.bowman@perth.uhi.ac.uk This project is part-financed by the European Union and the European Regional Development (ERDF) |
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