TRANS ADAPT

Societal transformation and adaptation necessary to manage dynamics in flood hazard and risk mitigation

Call 2013Societal transformation

Losses from extreme hydrological events have focused the attention of policymakers how to response to increasing natural hazard risks. Citizens and local communities are setting up initiatives for natural hazard risk management that may complement existing top-down initiatives by national governments. A major challenge is to represent the complexity of coupled human-environmental systems and particularly the feedback loops between environmental dynamics and human decision-making processes on different scales. The project analysed local initiatives to natural hazard risk management which are different from the mainstream.

Significant evidence suggests that current adaptation efforts are incommensuratewith the scale and rate at which climate change is occurring
To effectively respond to increasing climate change risks, large-scale transformative adaptation is being proposed.TRANS-ADAPT examines the opportunities/challenges associated with transformative adaptation in the context of natural hazards risk management using empirical examples from across Europe.

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TRANS-ADAPT offers valuable empirical insights into the process of transformation and an
opportunity to learn from empirical examples of how transformative approaches in flood risk management can be organised. The aim of the TRANS-ADAPT project is to support innovative solutions to mitigate natural hazard events. This fosters enhanced approaches in risk mitigation and contributes to disaster risk reduction and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement. TRANS-ADAPT shows the lack of knowledge and action related with attempting societal transformation in disaster risk management, by drawing on findings from eleven case studies across four European countries (Austria, France, Ireland and the Netherlands). Priority should be given encouraging communities to engage in transformative adaptation, as they often showed innovative ideas and concepts which were then further developed and implemented. Nevertheless, this ambitious policies also request resources and capacities at local, regional and national level.

Sven Fuchs

LPI of the project

Sven Fuchs is a senior researcher at the Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria. His research interests include mountain hazard risk management, the study of coupled human–environment systems, and the question of social justice and vulnerabilities for natural hazards. His research has taken him to the mountain regions of Europe, Southeast Asia, Central Africa, and the Russian Federation.

Project consortium

Institute of Mountain Risk Engineering
Utrecht University
CITERES Laboratory, François-Rabelais University Tours
Maynooth University
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme

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Maynooth University, Ireland, is responsible for the Irish case studies. University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, is in charge of the Dutch case studies. CITERES Laboratory, François-Rabelais University Tours, France, Maison des Sciences del’Homme (MSH) Val de Loire are responsible for the French case studies.

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Call 2013

Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects

This JPI Climate Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects provided support for top-quality research projects on topics that are of high societal relevance in Europe and globally, recognising that such challenges require joint efforts through multinational approaches. JPI Climate is seeking proposals from consortia consisting of partners from the participating European countries as well as others. Consortia brought together different scientific disciplines to address the issues within the scope of the described call topics. The projects displayed clear links to decision-makers and users of climate knowledge as well as potential change agents in society.

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