Archive Project News Delta Alliance Newsletter, special edition In this special edition of our newsletter, we would like to draw your attention to our Young Professionals Award. Delta Alliance is inviting young professionals around the world to submit innovative solutions to increase the resilience of the world’s deltas. Join the competition and spread this call! The best contributions will be presented and discussed during a Delta Alliance side event at the RIO+20 conference in Brazil. Delta Alliance Secretary, Tuesday 13 March 2012 Adaptation to climate change on arable farms in the Dutch province of Flevoland Verburg, R., Bezlepkina, I., Chen L. and M.J. Bogaardt. (2011). Adaptation to climate change on arable farms in the Dutch province of Flevoland. An inventory for the AgriAdapt project (LEI Memorandum 11-093). Climate changes Spatial Planning, project A19, Monday 13 February 2012 Report: Joint Programme Initiative Climate From 2008 to 2011, Knowledge for Climate contributed to the development of the Joint Programming Initiative “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe” (JPI Climate). The report summarizes the most important documents and the Dutch involvement in the programme, including the development of a Vision Paper. It also discusses the future plans and collaborations. Knowledge for Climate, project JPI Climate, Thursday 2 February 2012 How reliable are projections of future flood damage? Bubeck, P., De Moel, H., Bouwer, L.M., and Aerts, J.C.J.H. (2011). How reliable are projections of future flood damage? Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 11, 3293–3306. Knowledge for Climate, project HSGR02, Thursday 26 January 2012 Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies Peter P.J. Driessen and Helena F.M.W. van Rijswick (Utrecht University) (2011). Normative aspects of climate adaptation policies, Climate Law 2 (2011) 559–581, DOI 10.3233/CL-2011-051, IOS Press. Climate changes Spatial Planning, project COM35, Thursday 26 January 2012 Synthesis report IC12 Institutions for Adaptation: Do institutions allow society to adapt to the impacts of climate change? In this research the Adaptation wheel is developed as a method to evaluate the extent to which institutions they promote customizations from the societies or hinder. With this Adaptation wheel four policy sectors (nature, agriculture, water and spatial planning) in the official Dutch institutional context are evaluated. Climate changes Spatial Planning, project IC12, Thursday 15 December 2011 Synthesis report IC11 Socio-economic Scenarios in Climate Assessments It is widely recognised that projections of social and economic futures are circumscribed by irreducible uncertainties and ignorance. A common analytical response is to develop scenarios that map a range of alternative possible outcomes. The application of scenarios in climate assessments in the Netherlands was investigated in this report, focusing on the use of the socio-economic scenarios ‘Welvaart en Leefomgeving’ (WLO – The Future of the Dutch Built Environment). Climate changes Spatial Planning, project IC11, Thursday 15 December 2011 Synthesis report IC10 Frames in climate change communication and decision-making The report describes a frame-based approach to communication and decision-making on climate change. Building on the multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between frames and decisionmaking, decision makers may gain from making frames more explicit and using them for generating different visions about the central issues. Climate changes Spatial Planning, project IC10, Thursday 15 December 2011 Synthesis report CS08 Times series information Digitization of data sources of long time series of meteorological variables and the resulting datasets play an important role in the infrastructural planning of the Netherlands and form the basis for studies into climate change and its consequences. For instance, the design standards of river dikes, drainage and sewerage systems are to a large extent determinded by the occurrence of extreme meteorological events in the past. The data sources are checked for quality and are freely available via the Internet. Several examples of applications are presented. Climate changes Spatial Planning, project CS08, Thursday 15 December 2011 Synthesis report CS07 Tailoring climate scenarios In cooperation with several users KNMI started in 2005 to provide them with climate information tailored to their requirements. This report (in Dutch with a summary in Engelish) elaborates on the wishes for communication and the development of methods for tailoring climate data. Climate changes Spatial Planning, project CS07, Thursday 15 December 2011