Development of a metamodel tool for regional integrated climate change management: RegIS 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.