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Past events – 2011

21 October 2011
King’s College London
Climate change, risk and resilience: lessons for health and social care

The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) and the BIOPICCC and DeDeRHECC projects brought together experts from a wide range of sectors, including health, social care, planning, security, transport and the insurance industry, to explore responses to risk in general and climate change in particular. Questions explored included:

  • What are the risks posed by climate change to health and social justice, and how widely are they understood?
  • Do the scale and timeframe of climate change lead to paralysis instead of action?
  • What changes are necessary to infrastructure, systems design and behaviour to respond adequately to these risks?
  • Are differing attitudes to risk a barrier to successful adaptation?
  • What can we learn from risk management strategies in different sectors and how can we share this learning?

Papers and presentations from the meeting can be found on the BIOPICCC website.

6 October 2011
ACN: Overheating in Cities and Neighbourhoods
City Hall, London

This meeting was held between key policy central makers and relevant ACN projects (SNACC, ARCADIA, LUCID, SCORCHIO, CREW) to draw out clear, consistent messages from across the research to inform decision makers with respect to overheating particularly at the neighbourhood and city level.

12-16 September 2011
European Meteorological Society conference, Adaptations Strategies session
Berlin

A conference poster was presented by the ACN on Research to Inform Adaptation Planning and Policy.

Abstract: During the past two years, UKCIP, in managing and supporting the ACN, has focused on furthering the value of this cooperative effort through enhancing the value of the research from both the perspective of the research community and of the end-users (public and private sectors). This poster highlights the lessons learned in undertaking this endeavour and identifies both the achievements and challenges. In particular, the poster points to a series of focussed forum meeting and targeted cross-project themed events that have been used to build links and synergies and to enhance the effectiveness of dissemination. Also highlighted are the means and results of stakeholder-research engagement in defining future research needs to end-user requirements.

24 June 2011
ARCC CN Meeting with the Scottish Government Climate Change Adaptation team,
Edinburgh

This meeting aimed to raise awareness and to update the Scottish Government on progress, outputs and future plans for ARCC research projects of particular relevance to Scotland, thereby assisting policy leads in expanding their understanding of the research and evidence available.

Presentations from the day are available to download:

6–7 April, 2011
Adapting our Built Environment - ARCC Contributions and Challenges
St Catherine's College, Oxford.

This conference focussed on current research on adaptation and resilience to climate change in the UK built environment and its infrastructure, and the policy implications. Within the LWEC/EPSRC Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC) programme, a wide range of research projects cover aspects of existing buildings, the urban environment, transport and water resources systems at the local, city and national scales. The overall aim of this programme is to help formulate adaptation options to make systems more resilient to environmental change in a socially acceptable and environmentally advantageous way.

Presentations from all projects covered areas such as the urban heat island and overheating, building design for a low carbon future, working at the community level and with vulnerable populations, water management and related extreme events, and infrastructure and large-scale networks. Over 140 delegates including researchers, stakeholders, decision-makers and international colleagues took the opportunity to explore the research completed, underway and outstanding.

A brochure summarising the results from all the ARCC Coordination Network research projects to date is available to download (pdf 6 MB). Further copies can be obtained from Vicky Hayman.

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