Assessing climate change vulnerability in the arctic using geographic information services in spatial data infrastructures |
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| Authors: | Lars Bernard Nicole Ostländer |
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| Institution: | (1) Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Forest, Geo and Hydro Sciences, Helmholtzstrasse 10, 01069 Dresden, Germany;(2) European Commission – Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Via Fermi – TP 262, I-21020 Ispra (VA), Italy |
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| Abstract: | Timely knowing about climate change impacts is crucial to adequately plan and undertake adaptive measures and thus to effectively
lower vulnerability. This requires gathering and integrating geographic information on exposure, local response mechanisms
and stakeholders’ concerns. Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) are internet-based information systems that facilitate the
exchange and use of distributed geographic information. This paper presents the application of SDI to climate change assessment
by implementing a generic methodology for the quantification of vulnerability to climate change. The resulting integrated
tool allows scientists, stakeholders and decision makers to communicate, assess and improve information about vulnerability
to climate change. We show how emerging internet technologies and SDI in particular, make a new interactive approach of assessing
vulnerability to climate change possible. Vulnerability was quantified based on an active stakeholder involvement by incorporating
their varying perceptions, by allowing them to provide feedback and by supporting the acquisition of stakeholders’ knowledge.
However, the application showed that to be effective, efforts to achieve and maintain interoperability between the various
scientific disciplines should be kept integrated within mainstream IT developments. |
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