Objective
To develop an advanced methodology for Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) in order to address the relations between urban lifestyles and climate change; to foster a pluralistic debate on (local) policies intended to cope with climate change by integrating the use of computer models with a monitored social process (citizens juries).
OBJECTIVES:
To develop an advanced methodology for Integrated Environmental Assessment (IEA) in order to address the relations between urban lifestyles and climate change; to foster a pluralistic debate on (local) policies intended to cope with climate change by integrating the use of computer models with a monitored social process (citizens juries).
DESCRIPTION:
The project examines and tests the use of IEA in the policy process with focus on the relations between "local" and "global", particularly between urban sustainability and climate change. The project assumes that computer models are necessary for effective (IEA), but not sufficient. First, policy making depends crucially on finding options acceptable to citizens. Second, the high complexity of climate change precludes a complete and unique scientific description. Citizens routinely face decisions under nonunique descriptions, as democracy presupposes a variety of conflicting, yet legitimate interpretations. For both reasons, ULYSSES aims at including citizens and other users of IEA into an advanced IEA methodology. The tool for this is the IEA-Jury, a micro-cosmos of social learning designed to facilitate the mutual learning between practitioners and users of IEA.
The IEA-Juries to be designed by ULYSSES combine aspects of Focus Groups and Citizen Juries. Different options as to participants, number of meetings, and format of output are tested. Developing an interface between IEA-Juries and computer models is the central research task for ULYSSES. Different computer models, Integrated Assessment models as well as a tool for multicriteria decision analysis, are used in the juries. The juries are designed to interact with these models while recognising their uncertainties.
In order to test the feasibility and usefulness of the advanced IEA-method, ULYSSES focuses on climate policy options for urban regions. As IEA supporting a European climate policy must take the political and cultural heterogeneity of Europe into account, a multi-regional approach is chosen: juries are established in urban areas in Spain, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Germany, the United Kingdom, and Sweden.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences government systems democracy
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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Coordinator
64283 Darmstadt
Germany
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