C3-Alps: Capitalising Climate Change Knowledge for Adaptation in the Alpine Space
Project Framework
C3-Alps is a European project funded by the Alpine Space Programme under
the European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013. C3-Alps started in January 2012 and will run
until December 2014. The Lead Partner is the Umweltbundesamt GmbH /
Federal Environment Agency Austria. The partnership is composed of 17
Project Partners from Austria (4), Italy (4), Germany (3), Switzerland (2), France (1), Slovenia
(1), the Principality of Liechtenstein (1) plus UNEP's regional office for Europe, and
includes international organisations, national and regional government
authorities, national agencies, provinces/regions, research
institutions and institutes of applied sciences.
Project Description
C3-Alps will synthesize, transfer and implement in policy and practice results of previous Alpine Space projects on climate change adaptation. The capitalisation approach aims at
- generating new and directly usable forms of state-of-the-art synthesis adaptation knowledge in the Alps, harmonised across sectors and useful to adaptation decision-makers,
- its effective and tailor-made communication and transfer to target groups,
- enhancing effectiveness of adaptation policy and governance frameworks, and
- initiating, supporting and pioneering tailored and cross-cutting adaptation processes, strategies, action plans and decision support in pilot regions and municipalities.
To leverage sustainable impacts, the project will be driven by the information and user needs of target groups. By supporting bottom-up action, C3-Alps will contribute to implementation of national adaptation policies on regional and municipal levels and to advancement of national adaptation strategies.
Work Package 4 "Adaptation Policy and Governance"
WSL is responsible for Work Package 4 "Adaptation Policy and Governance", funded by the Federal Office for Spatial Development ARE and the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN.
Aims and research
questions
Capitalisation
of climate change knowledge by C3-Alps is aimed at the actors and institutions
relevant for adaptation policies on different administrative levels, in
different organisations and within different governance systems (institutional
arrangements). Thus, it is crucial to know who the actors in the policy field
"climate change adaptation" are, how they interact, in which governance
systems they are embedded, which institutions are critical forces for these
governance systems and are therefore significant for policy advances, how
existing climate adaptation knowledge, information offers and communication
channels are used, what the barriers for the implementation of climate
adaptation policies are, and what this altogether means for the effectiveness
of existing adaptation policies.
This
activity will conduct an analysis and provide a performance assessment of the
existing actor networks, governance systems, and actual adaptation policies in
Alpine Space countries. Results are expected to provide answers to the
following research questions:
- Who are the relevant actors for climate adaptation?
- Which are
adequate governance systems for climate adaptation?
- How do different governance
systems perform?
- What are strengths and weaknesses of different governance
systems in the Alpine space?
- What are barriers for the capitalisation of
climate adaptation knowledge?
- What are barriers for the implementation of
climate adaptation policies?
- What is ‘good’ climate adaptation policy making?
Actions
- Defining, framing and screening
climate change adaptation governance
- Analysing the performance of
existing climate change adaptation policies
- Assessing strengths and weaknesses
of adaptation governance systems and identifying good practices
- Reviewing the science-policy
interface in adaptation decision-making
- Developing options and proposals for
improving the performance of climate adaptation policies and for optimising the
science-policy interface
Project Team
WSL, Research Group Regional Economics and Development
Contact
| Keywords: |
Alpine Space, Climate Adaptation, Governance, Policy Analysis, Science-Policy Interface |
