Reflections on delivering place-based climate risk data in support of local adaptation decisions

Adam J. P. Smith; Asher Minns; Robert J. Nicholls; Anna Beswick; Katie Jenkins; Sandy Avrutin; Craig Robson

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2025.100701

Reflections on delivering place-based climate risk data in support of local adaptation decisions

Adam J. P. Smith
, Asher Minns
, Robert J. Nicholls
, Anna Beswick
, Katie Jenkins
, Sandy Avrutin
, Craig Robson

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Abstract

Strengthening the adaptive capacity of the UK, via national plans and local-scale interventions, requires easy access to climate risk information and adaptation scenarios. Stakeholder engagement can ensure the right balance between top-down prescriptive modelling, and bottom-up, solution-focussed and lived experience approaches. National-scale, spatially-explicit, integrated climate risk frameworks can help inform the needs of localised climate risk assessments, but there are barriers to local actors accessing the information.

Original language	English
Article number	100701
Journal	Climate Risk Management
Volume	48
Early online date	14 Mar 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2025.100701
Publication status	Published - 2025

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Adaptive capacity
Climate risk
Data sharing
Place-based climate risk
Stakeholder engagement

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Reflections on delivering place-based climate risk data in support of local adaptation decisions

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