Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts. The Contribution of Local Knowledge to Climate Change Research

Projektinformationen

LICCI

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 771056

DOI 10.3030/771056

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 28 Mai 2018

Startdatum 1 Juni 2018

Enddatum 31 Mai 2023

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 1 999 999,00

EU-Beitrag € 1 999 999,00

Koordiniert durch

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA
Spain

Ziel

In the quest to better understand local climate change impacts on physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems and how such impacts are locally perceived, scientists are challenged by the scarcity of grounded data, which has resulted in a call for exploring new data sources. People with a long history of interaction with the environment have developed complex knowledge systems that allow them to detect local impacts of climatic variability, but these insights are absent in climate change research and policy fora. I will bring insights from local knowledge to climate research by 1) providing data on local climate change impacts on physical (e.g. shrinking glaciers) and biological systems (e.g. phenological changes) and on perceptions of climate change impacts on socioeconomic systems (e.g. crop failure due to rainfall patterns change) and 2) testing hypotheses on the global spatial, socioeconomic and demographic distribution of local climate change impacts indicators.

Research will last five years. The first 18 months, Preparation, I will train a team who will develop and implement a data collection protocol and design a web-based platform where citizens can enter information on local climate change impacts indicators. During the following two years, Data collection, we will train 40 external PhD students to collect project’s data in data-deficient regions and disseminate the platform. During the last 18 months, Analysis, the core team will use spatial matching and multivariate analysis to test hypotheses related to the spatial, socioeconomic, and demographic distribution of local climate change impacts indicators. External PhD students will analyse local data. Dissemination will be transversal to the project. This project will fill theoretical and spatial gaps on climate change impacts research. It will also improve local capacity to respond to climate change impacts and help bridge epistemological differences between local and scientific knowledge systems.

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• humanities › history and archaeology › history
• agricultural sciences › agriculture, forestry, and fisheries › agriculture
• social sciences › political sciences › political policies › civil society
• natural sciences › earth and related environmental sciences › atmospheric sciences › climatology › climatic changes

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2017-COG - ERC Consolidator Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2017-COG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 999 999,00
• Adresse: EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V ; 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles ; Spanien
• Region: Este › Cataluña › Barcelona
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 999 999,00

Begünstigte (1)

UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA

Spanien

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 1 999 999,00
• Adresse: EDIF A CAMPUS DE LA UAB BELLATERRA CERDANYOLA V ; 08193 Cerdanyola Del Valles
• Region: Este › Cataluña › Barcelona
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 1 999 999,00