A co-evolutionary approach to climate change impact assessment — Part II: A scenario-based case study in East Anglia (UK)

Policy makers are beginning to intensify their search for policies that assist society to adapt to the unfolding impacts of climate change at the local level. This paper forms the second part of two part a examination of the potential for using scenarios in adaptation and vulnerability assessment. P...

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Published in:	Global environmental change 2000-07, Vol.10 (2), p.145-155
Main Authors:	Lorenzoni, Irene, Jordan, Andrew, O'Riordan, Tim, Kerry Turner, R, Hulme, Mike
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Adaptation British Isles Case studies Climate change Co-evolution East Anglia Environmental impact studies Global warming Government policy Learning Policy making Scenarios Society United Kingdom Vulnerability
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Summary:	Policy makers are beginning to intensify their search for policies that assist society to adapt to the unfolding impacts of climate change at the local level. This paper forms the second part of two part a examination of the potential for using scenarios in adaptation and vulnerability assessment. Part I explained how climate change and socio-economic scenarios can be integrated to better understand the complex inter-relationships between a changing climate and a dynamically evolving social system. This second part describes how a broadly representative sample of public, private and voluntary organisations in the East Anglian region of the UK responded to the scenarios, and identifies future research priorities. The main findings are that integrated socio-economic and climate scenarios applied `bottom up’ to locally important stakeholders: (1) provide a sophisticated and dynamic mechanism to explore the potential feedbacks between natural and human systems; (2) offer a means to understand the vulnerability and adaptive capacity of different exposure units; (3) promote social learning by encouraging participants to assess the adequacy of their existing climate strategies for longer than their normal planning periods.
ISSN:	0959-3780 1872-9495