LCA – Linking Climate Adaptation Network
Background and Goals
The network is a web-based discussion community with more than 600 members from all over the world. The network aims to facilitate applied research for climate change adaptation by vulnerable communities and provides host-moderated online discussions on key adaptation topics for this purpose. The vision of the network is a diverse membership, comprising participants from different disciplines, different countries and with different levels of experience, not just ""climate adaptation specialists"". It is intended as a mouthpiece to reinforce the positions of particularly vulnerable developing countries and communities in the subject area of climate governance. The site also provides an ""adaptation topic guide"", which contains the following points:
- an introduction to the key issues and debates in the field of climate adaptation
- online access to selected adaptation resources and summarised papers, categorised under key themes and geographic regions
- an index of organisations working on climate change adaptation
- access to important findings and documents posted to in the network
In particular, the status of the discussions on the key issues of the adaptation debates are summarised and provided. On the one hand, this includes the preparation and implementation of national ""national adaptation programmes of action"" (NAPAs), and, on the other hand, the causal connection between the climate change and natural disasters.
Content time
Research area/region
Country
- Germany
- Europe
- global
Region of implementation (all German federal states)
- Baden-Württemberg
- Bavaria
- Berlin
- Brandenburg
- Bremen
- Hamburg
- Hesse
- Mecklenburg Western Pomerania
- Lower Saxony
- Northrhine-Westphalia
- Rhineland Palatinate
- Saarland
- Saxony
- Saxony-Anhalt
- Schleswig-Holstein
- Thuringia
Steps in the process of adaptation to climate change
Step 3: Develop and compare measures
Measures and/or strategies
The objective of the network is to assist local authorities, political decision-makers, practitioners and academics in sharing their experience and knowledge on climate change adaptation. It is intended as a universally accessible, useful and dynamic forum for sharing information from all areas of science and politics that are concerned with the subject of adaptation to climate change. The discussions are led by a multidisciplinary, knowledgeable group of stakeholders that are invited from all countries and all sectors of work.
Participants
Funding / Financing
Department for International Development (DFID), Great Britain
Project management
Institute of Development Studies, Climate Change and Disasters Group (Great Britain)
Contact
IDS - Institute of Development Studies, Climate Change and Disasters Group, University of Sussex
at the University of Sussex
UK-BN1 9RE Brighton
