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Climate Research Topics: Adaptation

Managing and adapting to future climate changes will be critical for the welfare of humans and non-humans in various parts of the world. This adaptation may be in advising businesses of future impacts, exploring the adaptation of societies or ecological communities at present with questions about how and why some societies or communities adapt to changes more readily than others. Critical issues focus on questions of water, food and energy at local, national and international scales. Successful adaptation will depend on the climate scientists and the social scientists working together to implement wide-ranging solutions that build our capacity to adapt to future climate change.

Current Projects

  • CLIMSAVE: CLimate change Integrated assessment Methodology for cross-Sectoral Adaptation and Vulnerability in Europe
    2010-2013

    A project to develop and apply an integrated methodology for stakeholder-led, climate change impact and vulnerability assessment

  • Adaptation and Resilience in a Changing Climate (ARCC)
    2009-2013

    The ARCC Coordination Network (ACN) exists to enhance the cooperative development and dissemination of research between and beyond a portfolio of 14 EPSRC-funded research projects exploring the impacts and adaptation in a changing climate within the built environment, including transport and water resource systems. UKCIP is a partner organisation in this network

  • Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS)
    2010 - 2020

    This 10 year research initiative launched by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) has an Oxford component led by NERC Food Security Leader, John Ingram.

  • UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium: Long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems

    The UK Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium will inform the analysis, planning and design of national infrastructure, through the development and demonstration of new decision support tools, and working with partners in government and industry.

  • ARCADIA: Adaptation and Resilience in Cities: Analysis and Decision making using Integrated Assessment [EPSRC (EP/G061254/1)]

    ARCADIA aims to provide system-scale understanding of the inter-relationships between climate impacts, the urban economy, land use, transport and the built environment and to use this understanding to design cities that are more resilient and adaptable.

  • Climate Governance
    2010-2011

    The research project focuses on ways of addressing institutional interactions in global environmental governance.

  • Operationalizing REDD+: Actors, Interests and Ideas
    2009 - 2012

    The aim of this project is to gain a better understanding of the wide range of actors, interests and ideas that are shaping REDD+.

  • Embedding Biodiversity Adaptation Principles (EMBEDS)
    2010 - 2011

    This project will review of the success of embedding climate change adaptation principles in activities supporting Defra's internal Biodiversity Programme; and in the England Biodiversity Strategy

  • Visioning and Backcasting for Transport Futures in Chinese Cities
    2010 - 2011

    This research project will analyse policy pathways and business models to support sustainable transport in China.

  • Governing Climate Change at Global Cities: A Case Study of Beijing
    2008 - 2009

    Understanding the roles of non-nation state actors including the municipal government, businesses, and NGOs in Beijing’s climate change governance and draw implications for national climate policy and the post-Kyoto climate regime

  • Governing Climate Change beyond the International Regime: City Actions in China

    Identifying the key factors that determine the current carbon actions taken by non-nation state actors in China, and examining the implications of these activities for developing a post-2012 climate regime that can effectively engage China.

  • Flood Risk Management Consortium, Phase 2 [EPSRC (EP/F020511/1)]

    The Flood Risk Management Consortium is an interdisciplinary research Consortium focuses on some of the more recently identified strategic research investigating the prediction and management of flood risk and is the primary UK academic response to this challenge.

  • UKCIP
    1997 Onwards

    UKCIP provides the public, private and voluntary sectors as well as the scientific community with a range of tools and datasets which support climate impact assessment and adaptation planning.

Archived Projects

More adaptation projects are carried out within the School of Geography and the Environment (SoGE) Climate Systems and Policy research cluster.