Archive Project News | Summer School: Greenhouse gas emissions from rural activities - Monitoring, reporting and verification To mitigate climate change, demanding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets are being negotiated. Meeting these targets requires putting to work a broad and integrated range of reduction options, including those related to land use. The course aim is: full carbon accounting is a demanding task, in which scientific complexity and manageable, transparent accounting systems have difficulty to meet. Climate changes Spatial Planning projects ME01/ME02, Monday 22 March 2010 | | Putting Perspectives into Participation: Constructive Conflict Methodology for Problem Structuring in Stakeholder Dialogues Participation of stakeholders, or to be more precise, interaction between different stakeholders to exchange knowledge, ideas and opinions has frequently been proposed as a way to deal with unstructured societal problems. This Doctoral thesis of Eefje Cuppen with respect to CcSP project IC08 is about methods to facilitate
such stakeholder dialogues on unstructured problems. Climate changes Spatial Planning / VU University Amsterdam, Wednesday 27 January 2010 | | Wouter Botzen PhD thesis on Economics of Insurance against Climate Change Wouter Botzen’s thesis examines consequences of, and opportunities due to, climate change for the insurance sector and the role that insurance can play in climate change adaptation policies in the Netherlands. This research had been carried out within the CcSP A09 project "Financial arrangements for disaster losses under climate change". CcSP / VU University Amsterdam, Thursday 14 January 2010 | | CcSP IC11 project Socio-Economic Scenarios for Climate Assessments has been finished The CcSP IC11 project "Socio-Economic Scenarios for Climate Assessments" has been finished in 2009. A wiki-site was set-up, where existing scenario data from many sources have been compiled and presented in a way that they are ready to use. Users are encouraged to share comments with the IC11 team or to contribute to this wiki.
CcSP, VU Amsterdam, Monday 21 December 2009 | | Call for abstracts for Conference 'Deltas in Times of Climate Change' The two official Dutch research programmes on climate change and spatial planning (Climate changes Spatial Planning and Knowledge for Climate), the City of Rotterdam and the C40 (a group of the world’s largest cities committed to tackling climate change) invite scientists, politicians, policy-makers and practitioners to share their knowledge and experience in a major international conference on climate adaptation. Climate Delta Conference, Tuesday 8 December 2009 | | Book Rob Roggema "Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge" released Rob Roggema (CcSP A18 Hotspot Groningen project leader) wrote the book "Adaptation to Climate Change: A Spatial Challenge", which has been released by Springer. This richly illustrated book illuminates the way adaptation to climate change is tackled. It provides an overview of international climate measures covering a broad range of themes including, water management, ecology, coastal defence, the urban environment, and energy. Springer, Friday 4 December 2009 |
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