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Climate change and disaster risk reduction through adaptation plans and policies: the ACT (Adapting to Climate change in Time) project approach |
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Alessio Capriolo, Francesca Giordano, Rosa Anna Mascolo, Daniele Spizzichino |
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EGU General Assembly 2011
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Englisch
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In: GRA - Volume 13 (2011) |
| Datensatznummer |
250056213
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Natural hazard and related risk represent the conflict between natural and physical system and
social and economical setting, constituting a fundamental imbalance for population.
As stated by the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), mitigation
aims at avoiding the unmanageable impacts, while adaptation aims at managing the
unavoidable impacts and at increasing the resilience of natural and human systems to
current and future impacts of climate change. Adaptation and planning activities,
together with mitigation, represent the two actions that must be undertaken to face
the problem of climate change. The likely increase in frequency and intensity of
extreme weather events (IPCC 2007), could lead to an increase in economic and social
damage. Climate change has a significant impact on the hydrological cycle and all its
related phenomena. Defining a strong correlation between current climatic trend in
occurrence of natural and anthropogenic impacts Vs future scenarios, it seems to be very
difficult. The correlation should consider the relationship between meteorological
trigger mechanisms (not yet very well associated to climate change) and related
impacts. Such activity is being been carried out within the framework of the Life ACT
Project (Adapting to Climate change in Time) aiming at the development of Local
Adaptation Plan which will support the forecast and reduction of environmental,
social and economic impacts of climate change on the most vulnerable sectors in the
Mediterranean Basin, through an inclusive and participated process, shared by all the
local actors involved. Three vulnerable municipalities to climate change have been
selected in order to define and implement adaptation plans and policies in areas
representative of impacts of climate change: Ancona (Italy), Bullas (Spain) and Patras
(Greece). Due to common features of climate pattern in the Mediterranean areas, these
municipalities will all have to face some common effects related to climate change:
problems concerning water resources (drought, floods), coastal erosion, desertification
and soil erosion, loss of biodiversity, health risk and the related economic sectors
(i.e.: agriculture, tourism). For the purpose of ACT Project, all the information on
existent models and climate forecasting scenarios have been reviewed and analyzed
and the climate variables (i.e. temperature, precipitation and sea level rise) were
elaborated for the three target areas and implemented in order to realize a down
scaling useful for the local scale methodology and assessment. Main outcomes of the
project will be addressed to: the development of a standardized process to draw and
implement local adaptation strategies, easily applicable to a wide range of local
authorities to forecast the impacts of climate change on a local scale and to define
corresponding actions; the involvement (by increasing their awareness) of local actors (local
industries, citizens, health system, civil protection, etc.) and stakeholders in the
development of local adaptation strategy; the development and dissemination of
guidelines that can encourage other European communities (in particular in the
Mediterranean basin) to adopt the same process and to develop their own local
adaptation strategies; the identification and prevention of the risks of environmental
disasters related to climate change (e.g. flooding, droughts etc.); the integration
of adaptation strategy within existing and future municipal plans, policies, and
legislations; the economic evaluation through a cost-benefit analysis that will assist
municipalities to choose the most cost effective adaptation actions among others. |
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