Vulnerability and Adaptation

Several climate-related natural disasters in the past few years have shown that preparedness for such events is not sufficiently robust. We need to know more about the ways in which societal groups and sectors are vulnerable to climate change, and need to examine what influences our capacity to adapt to it and how measures can be best supported and implemented. Our research, therefore, aims to develop methods that help us assess what factors cause vulnerability, and analyse how preconditions are created for adapting to a changing climate.

Ongoing projects 

• Adapting cities to climate induced risks - a coordinated approach
• Baltic Sea Region Climate Change Adaptation Strategy (Baltadapt)
• Climate issues integration in local policy and planning (CLIPP)
• Designing Climate-Smart Water Adaptation Strategies for Sustainable Urban Development. A Study of Cochahamba and Kota
• Enhancing cities capacity to manage vulnerability to climate change
• Increasing homeowners adaptive capacity: visualization tool for analysis (In Hac Vita)
• NORD-STAR
• The Process of adaptation to climate change (Mistra-Swecia)

Finilized Projects

• Assessing water resource vulnerability to climate and other stressors in northern Xinjiang province, China Project Leader: Julie Wilk
• Baltic Challenges and Chances for local and regional development generated by Climate Change (BalticClimate)

• Climate change adaptation in Norway, Sweden, and Finland – Do research, policy and practice meet? Project leader: Louise Simonsson

• Enhancing cities capacity to manage vulnerability to climate change

• Participatory Modelling for Assesment of Climate Change impacts on Water Resources in Southern Africa (PAMO). See also, Adaptation Plan Report 
  Project leader: Lotta Andersson

• Research on consequences of climate change for policy making in the Nordic countries (CARAVAN)
  Project leader: Louise Simonsson

• Risk, vulnerability and adaptation to climate variations and change in Östergötland
• Planning for Climate Adaptation. Adaptive Capacity and conditions for change in Sweden Project leader: Sofie Storbjörk