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CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform

Author/Contact:

Dr. Paula Harrison, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg, Lancaster
LA1 4AP, Email: PaulaHarrison@ceh.ac.uk
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Resource description:

The CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform is a user-friendly, interactive web-based tool that allows stakeholders to assess climate change impacts and vulnerabilities for a range of sectors, including agriculture, forests, biodiversity, coasts, water resources and urban development. The linked set of models provides outputs for a wide range of sectoral and ecosystem service indicators. The tool also enables stakeholders to explore adaptation strategies for reducing climate change vulnerability. It highlights the cost-effectiveness and cross-sectoral benefits and conflicts of different adaptation options and enables uncertainties to be investigated to better inform the development of robust policy responses.

Requirements:

  • Internet access and Internet Explorer web browser as the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform is a web-based modelling platform
  • Microsoft Silverlight needs to be installed to run the platform
  • No other software installations are needed

Advantages:

  • Allows users to better understand the importance of cross-sectoral interactions in determining, and responding to, climate change impacts and vulnerability
  • Allows users to explore different adaptation strategies to climate change
  • It is highly interactive with fast runtimes enabling users to undertake sensitivity and uncertainty analyses

Constraints:

  • Static modelling environment, so impacts and responses can only be analysed for current conditions and two future time slices (2020s and 2050s)
  • Spatial extent is fixed to the countries of the European Union plus Norway and Switzerland. Hence, the implementation of adaptation strategies are considered at this scale
  • Requires time to play with the modelling platform to begin to understand the interactions that are represented. This is easier with interaction with the scientists involved in developing the platform

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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