Updating an existing online adaptation support tool: insights from an evaluation

Haße, Clemens; Kind, Christian

doi:10.1007/s10584-018-2166-6

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“…This Special Issue provides examples of excellence in sustained management and updating of adaptation platforms, including regular updating such as occurs with the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit (Gardiner et al 2019) and updating at intervals, such as with the Klimalotse (Hasse and Kind 2019).…”

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“…First, there needs to be comprehensive, independent, and long-term evaluation of the current applications of decision support resources, to understand how and why practitioners make use of them and to understand their limitations. This is a requirement which is widely stressed throughout the literature on adaptation decision support (Newman et al 2017;Gardiner et al 2019;Hasse and Kind 2019;Palutikof et al 2019c). Second, extrinsic factors need to motivate practitioners to undertake comprehensive, long-term adaptation planning so they overcome its implicit inertia.…”

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“…Alternatively, funding may be available to support such activities constructed and maintained by organisations with a specific mandate and funding to support adaptation. Examples include government-sponsored activities outlined in this Special Issue, for Europe (Hasse and Kind 2019;Laudien et al 2019;Street et al 2019), for Australia (Palutikof et al 2019a), and for the USA (Gardiner et al 2019). Though these examples emphasise government-funded entities, there are many private organisations and consultancies taking up the mantle of decision support for climate change adaptation, particularly in the USA.…”

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“…However, even though the number of site visits may remain high, it is not clear who the users are, what use they make of the platform or, perhaps most importantly, whether they represent the planned target users. In this Special Issue, Gardiner et al (2019), Hasse and Kind (2019), Laudien et al (2019) and Palutikof et al (2019a, b) all describe a number of approaches to evaluation, carried out at different points in the lifetimes of their adaptation platforms.…”

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Looking to the future: guidelines for decision support as adaptation practice matures

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In this final paper, the guest editors identify and discuss ten guidelines emerging from the papers in this Special Issue on Decision-Support Tools for Climate Change Adaptation. The guidelines are arranged under three headings: foundational, design and construction, and supporting sustainability in the long term. Under foundational, we address the need for cooperation with end users of decision-support resources, the contribution these resources can make to the formation of thriving communities of practice, and the match between the different types of decision support and user needs. Under design and construction, we point to the risk that policy settings will change over the multiple years required to build and publish complex decision-support resources, reducing the relevance of the final product. We discuss the need for innovative approaches to ensure visibility, credibility and hence uptake. Developers should be mindful of the requirements, resources and capabilities of potential users at all points in the design and build. We also suggest that decision-support resources may be transferable between sectors and locations, but the motivation should be around achieving excellence, and not just cost savings. Under supporting sustainability in the long term, we stress the need for evaluation and comparative studies of performance, leading to carefully documented updating and improvement of decision-support resources. Finally, in the conclusions, we look to the future. Can decision-support resources evolve successfully to meet the information and guidance requirements of the increasingly sophisticated adaptation practitioner community?

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“…CoastAdapt is just one of a number of decision support platforms developed to address the information and guidance requirements of adaptation decision makers. These include, for example, the US Climate Resilience Toolkit (Gardiner et al 2019), the European Climate Adaptation Platform (EEA 2018), the Klimalotse for Germany (Hasse and Kind 2019) and the Adaptation Wizard for the UK (Street et al 2019).…”

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A three-tier risk assessment process for climate change adaptation at a local scale

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Formal structures for evaluating climate change risk are important components of adaptation decision-making. In this paper, we present an accessible, cost-effective and user-tested climate change risk assessment framework which allows organisations to systematically apply a risk management process aligned with international standards to identify and manage their climate change risks. It is delivered through 'CoastAdapt', a resource supporting climate change adaptation in Australia. This three-tier framework offers four benefits to the adaptation process. First, it allows organisations to identify climate change risks and integrate them with their mainstream risk management process. Second, it makes optimal use of an organisation's limited adaptation resources by taking a tiered approach, so allowing an organisation to start from a low knowledge base using minimal resources and, only if required, then move to more complex and resource-intensive risk assessment processes. Third, it introduces a time-dependent vulnerability rating which recognises the particular characteristics of climate change risks-that they are long term and associated with a considerable degree of uncertainty. Finally, it takes into account business inter-dependencies that can exacerbate impacts but be overlooked in a sector-based impacts evaluation. In this paper, we highlight the appropriate context in which to use each risk assessment tier, explore key technical differences among the three tiers, describe performance testing and present one case study of application. We discuss the benefits of this tiered risk assessment approach in the context of broader adaptation planning.

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Updating an existing online adaptation support tool: insights from an evaluation

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Decision support platforms for climate change adaptation: an overview and introduction

Decision support platforms for climate change adaptation: an overview and introduction

Looking to the future: guidelines for decision support as adaptation practice matures

A three-tier risk assessment process for climate change adaptation at a local scale

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