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The RegIS2 PROJECT (Phase 2)

Following on from the RegIS project, REGIS2 is a £320K project to address the need to assess impacts, adaptation to impacts and policy responses of climate change. The project will involve the development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate change management in order to make the RegIS methodology available to the wider stakeholder community.

The objectives are as follows:

To enable stakeholders to assess for themselves the impacts of future climate change on the agriculture, biodiversity, hydrology and coasts of East Anglia and the North West of England;
To explore the impacts for the 2050s;
To involve regional experts, decision-makers and other 'stakeholders' throughout the assessment;
To develop, calibrate and validate metamodels (or simpler models) based upon simulations using existing impact models, which can be used to assess the impacts of climate change.
To develop a robust and user friendly software tool for Stakeholders to analyse climate change impacts, their interactions and adaptive responses using the metamodels
To analyse the range of possible adaptive responses and the influence of future policy and socio-economic scenarios upon the response.
To work with stakeholders to communicate the findings to the appropriate policy and lay audiences

The core of the project is the creation of a new public Landscape Evolution Centre. Dr Pam Berry will be involved in providing innovative 3-d visualisation of future landscape scenarios, for the area around Wittenham Clumps.

For further information see the RegIS2 website

ECI Staff contacts: Dr Pam Berry, Dr Terry Dawson, and Dr Paula Harrison

This project is funded by: Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs  

Project Partners include:
Cranfield University
Silsoe (main contractor) Silsoe Research Institute, BBSRC
Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Flood Hazard Research Centre, Middlesex University
Manchester School of Management, UMIST

Time scale : 1 September 2003 to 31 August  2005