TY - JOUR
T1 - An Innovative Approach for Subnational Climate Adaptation of Biodiversity and Ecosystems
T2 - The Case Study of a Regional Strategy in Italy
AU - Pollo, Alessandra
AU - Piccini, Irene
AU - Chiara, Jacopo
AU - Porro, Elena
AU - Chiantore, Daniela
AU - Gili, Fabrizio
AU - Alba, Riccardo
AU - Barbi, Andrea
AU - Bogliani, Giuseppe
AU - Bagliani, Marco
AU - Doretto, Alberto
AU - Ruffino, Carlo
AU - Malenotti, Elisa
AU - Garazzino, Agostina
AU - Pelosini, Renata
AU - Siniscalco, Consolata
AU - Bonelli, Simona
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
PY - 2022/5/1
Y1 - 2022/5/1
N2 - Since climate change impacts are already occurring, urgent adaptive actions are necessary to avoid the worst damages. Regional authorities play an important role in adaptation, but they have few binding guidelines to carry out strategies and plans. Sectoral impacts and adaptive measures strongly differ between regions; therefore, specific results for each territory are needed. Impacts are often not exhaustively reported by literature, dataset and models, thus making it impossible to objectively identify specific adaptive measures. Usual expert elicitation helps to fill this gap but shows some issues. For the Piedmont Strategy, an innovative approach has been proposed, involving experts of private and public bodies (regional authorities, academia, research institutes, parks, associations, NGOs, etc.). They collaborated in two work group, first to identify current and future impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, and secondly to elaborate and prioritize measures. Involving 143 experts of 46 affiliations, it was possible to quickly edit a cross-validated list of impacts (110) and measures (92) with limited costs. Lastly, a public return of results took place. This approach proved to be effective, efficient and influenced the policymakers, overcoming the tendency to enact long-term actions to face climate change. It could be used internationally by subnational authorities also in other sectors.
AB - Since climate change impacts are already occurring, urgent adaptive actions are necessary to avoid the worst damages. Regional authorities play an important role in adaptation, but they have few binding guidelines to carry out strategies and plans. Sectoral impacts and adaptive measures strongly differ between regions; therefore, specific results for each territory are needed. Impacts are often not exhaustively reported by literature, dataset and models, thus making it impossible to objectively identify specific adaptive measures. Usual expert elicitation helps to fill this gap but shows some issues. For the Piedmont Strategy, an innovative approach has been proposed, involving experts of private and public bodies (regional authorities, academia, research institutes, parks, associations, NGOs, etc.). They collaborated in two work group, first to identify current and future impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, and secondly to elaborate and prioritize measures. Involving 143 experts of 46 affiliations, it was possible to quickly edit a cross-validated list of impacts (110) and measures (92) with limited costs. Lastly, a public return of results took place. This approach proved to be effective, efficient and influenced the policymakers, overcoming the tendency to enact long-term actions to face climate change. It could be used internationally by subnational authorities also in other sectors.
KW - adaptation plans
KW - adaptation strategies
KW - adaptive measures
KW - biodiversity conservation
KW - climate change
KW - climate impacts
KW - expert elicitation
KW - expert-based evaluation
KW - participatory approach
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U2 - 10.3390/su14106115
DO - 10.3390/su14106115
M3 - Article
SN - 2071-1050
VL - 14
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
IS - 10
M1 - 6115
ER -