dc.contributor.author | Sanderson, Hans | |
dc.contributor.author | Hilden, Mikael | |
dc.contributor.author | Russel, Duncan | |
dc.contributor.author | Dessai, Suraje | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-26T11:52:21Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016-01-13 | |
dc.description.abstract | The widely recognized increase in greenhouse gas emissions is necessitating adaptation to a changing climate, and policies are being developed and implemented worldwide, across sectors, and between government scales globally. The aim of this paper is to reflect on 1 of the major challenges: facilitating and sharing information on the next adaptation practices. Web portals (i.e., websites) for disseminating information are important tools in meeting this challenge, and therefore, we assessed the characteristics of select major portals across multiple scales. We found that there is a rather limited number of case studies available in the portals—between 900 and 1000 in total, with 95 that include cost information and 195 that include the participation of stakeholders globally. Portals are rarely cited by researchers, suggesting a suboptimal connection between the practical, policy-related, and scientific development of adaptation. The government portals often lack links on search results between US and EU websites, for example. With significant investments and policy development emerging in both the US and EU, there is great potential to share information via portals. Moreover, there is the possibility of better connecting the practical adaptation experience from bottom-up projects to the science of adaptation. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research (FP7/2007–2013) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | ESRC (Economic & Social Research Council) Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Published online 13 January 2016 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/ieam.1755 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 308337 (Project BASE) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | 28436 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/19364 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Publisher policy | en_GB |
dc.subject | Climate change | en_GB |
dc.subject | Adaptation | en_GB |
dc.subject | Portals | en_GB |
dc.subject | Case studies | en_GB |
dc.title | Database support systems for adaptation to climate change: An assessment of web-based portals across scale | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 1551-3777 | |
dc.description | This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Database support systems for adaptation to climate change: An assessment of web-based portals across scales by Hans Sanderson, Mikael Hildén, Duncan Russel and Suraje Dessai in Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management (2016), which has been published in final form at 10.1002/ieam.1755. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving: http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1551-3793 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management | en_GB |