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Development of Adaptation Indicators
ETC/ACC Technical Paper 2009/6

Released: 2010/01/11: See the report

Abstract:
Adaptation policies, measures and actions are required to increase the resilience of environmental, social, and economic systems that are vulnerable to climate change. Within this context, adaptation indicators are needed.
The purpose of this Technical Paper is to present a theoretical and practical framework for the development of adaptation indicators. It also aims to apply the framework in the development of indicators for the biodiversity sector and (i) the vulnerability of European biodiversity to climate change and (ii) regions being the interface between high-level national/European policy and local implementation. The studies are used to exemplify how adaptation indicators might be developed to monitor the implementation of adaptation policies, measures and actions. They also illustrate an approach that could be applied in a wider range of policy settings and sectors across Europe.

Prepared by: ETC/ACC memebrs Mike Harley (AEA, UK) and Jelle van Minnen (PBL, NL)

Published by: ETC/ACC, December 2009, 16 pp.