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Ready 4 Climate Change

Author/Contact:

TURAS
Expert contact: Lissy Nijhuis

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Resource description:

Quick check tool to activate stakeholders and their knowledge on climate change adaptation.

Requirements:

  • The stress test is relatively straightforward to apply. However, despite it covers many departments, it needs a single person to coordinate everything who also has the authority to demand action from employees across different departments.

Advantages:

  • In order to identify which threats (or opportunities) climate change may pose to a municipality, it is important to get an overview of the relevant information coming from all the different sectors that may be impacted. After this is done, a roadmap can b
  • To put the topic of climate change adaptation on the agenda, a questionnaire has been developed. For this questionnaire, relevant experts within different municipal departments need to be contacted. Filling in the questionnaire results in an inventory of
  • Main outcomes: stakeholder integration, process innovation, community empowerment.

Constraints:

  • Global climate change can have many effects with a strong impact on water availability, crop growth, urban heat stress, weather extremes, natural habitats, among others. Correspondingly, adapting to such a wide urban challenge requires a high-level integr

Uses of this resource:

As climate change touches upon many disciplines and sectors, municipalities often do not have one department which is the "problem owner" of climate adaptation. Therefore, many municipalities have no comprehensive climate change adaptation strategy due to a lack of "problem owner" and scattered expertise/responsibilities. In addition, smaller municipalities may lack of the necessary manpower to pick up a challenge of this proportion by themselves.

Additional information:

WHO SHOULD BE INVOLVED?

FACILITATORY (PUBLIC) BODIES: 
strategic planning department; environment and sustainability department; planning and development department; green spaces department; water and sewerage management department; socio-economic development department

LOCAL TASK FORCE: 
professional expert; local or regional authority

SUITABLE FOR: 
urban region; (sub-) urban communities

MAIN NECESSARY RESOURCES ARE: 
personnel time; expert knowledge; political back-up; public institutional set-up; legal legitimization

Licence:

  • Free, no licence

Development stage:

  • Full, working product
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