Working groups

Working Groups at the 1st ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 27 August - 8 September 2006

Here is a photo gallery of the working groups.

Chief Tutor: Dagmar Schröter
Dagmar.Schroeter -at- gmail.com
George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
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Bill Bealey
bib -at- ceh.ac.uk
Atmospheric Sciences Section, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Midlothian EH26 0QB, UK

Uta Fritsch
uta.fritsch -at- gmx.de
Via Claudia de Medici 19, 39100 Bolzano, Italy

Zuzana Imrichová
zuzana.imrichova -at- savba.sk
Institute of Landscape Ecology, SAS, Stefanikova 3, Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Diana Meyer-Veden
meyer-veden -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany



Photographs by Wolfgang Cramer, Rik Leemans and Kelvin Peh


Vulnerability of the Alps - a Preliminary Assessment of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (pdf: 13MB )

A study oriented towards the perceived needs of a stakeholder organization such as the International Commission for the Protection of the Alps (CIPRA)

The five working groups had the possibility to revise their reports after the summer school and submitted the case studies later directly to the summer school director at PIK.

The five working groups presenting their final results on the last day of the summer school:

Photographs by Wolfgang Cramer

Recommended background literature for the working groups:

Essential reading on vulnerability — an introductory review

• Patt AG, Schröter D, De la Vega-Leinert AC, Klein RJT (2006) An introduction to the diversity of approaches to vulnerability research and assessment: Common features and lessons learned. Introduction to the book: Environmental vulnerability assessment for policy and decision-making, Patt AG, Klein RJT, De la Vega-Leinert AC, Schröter D (eds.). In review. (pdf: 100KB)
  

Essential reading on vulnerability — methodology

• Metzger MJ, Schröter D (2006) Towards a spatially explicit and quantitative vulnerability assessment of environmental change in Europe. Regional Environmental Change 6(4):201-216.doi:10.1007/s10113-006-0020-2.
• Schröter D, Polsky C, Patt AG (2005) Assessing vulnerabilities to the effects of global change: an eight step approach. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 10(4):573-595. doi:10.1007/s11027-005-6135-9
• Metzger M, Leemans R, Schröter D (2005) A multidisciplinary multi-scale framework for assessing vulnerability to global change. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation 7:253-267. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2005.06.011

Essential reading on adaptation and adaptive capacity

• Grothmann T, Patt A (2005) Adaptive capacity and human cognition: The process of individual adaptation to climate change. Global Environmental Change 15:199-213. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2005.01.002
• Patt A, Suarez P, Gwata C (2005) Effects of seasonal climate forecasts and participatory workshops among subsistence farmers in Zimbabwe. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences USA 102:12673-12678. doi:10.1073/pnas.0506125102

Interesting reading — in depth case studies (on different regions or issues)

...on Southern Africa:

• Atlas for Disaster Preparedness and Response in the Limpopo Basin. 2003, Instituto Nacional De Gestao De Calamidades Mocambique (INGC), Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) - Department of Geography, Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET), Mozambique Integrated Information Network for Decision-Making (MIND), 99 p. http://www.setsan.org.mz/limpopoatlas

...on Germany:

• Schröter D, Zebisch M, Grothmann T (2006) Climate change in Germany — Vulnerability and adaptation of climate-sensitive sectors. Contribution to the Klimastatusbericht 2005 (Report on the State of the Climate 2005), Deutscher Wetterdienst (German Meteorological Service), Offenbach, Germany, 44-56, (pdf: 600KB)http://www.ksb.dwd.de.
• Zebisch M, Grothmann T, Schröter D, Haße C, Fritsch U, Cramer W (2005) Climate change in Germany – Vulnerability and adaptation of climate sensitive sectors (pdf: 11MB) (Klimawandel in Deutschland – Vulnerabilität und Anpassungsstrategien klimasensitiver Systeme). Report commissioned by the Federal Environmental Agency, Germany (UFOPLAN 201 41 253), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany, 205 p. http://www.umweltbundesamt.de

...on Europe:

• Schröter D, Cramer W, Leemans R, Prentice IC, Araújo MB, Arnell NW, Bondeau A, Bugmann H, Carter TR, Garcia CA, de la Vega-Leinert AC, Erhard M, Ewert F, Glendining M, House JI, Kankaanpää S, Klein RJT, Lavorel S, Lindner M, Metzger MJ, Meyer J, Mitchell TD, Reginster I, Rounsevell M, Sabaté S, Sitch S, Smith B, Smith J, Smith P, Sykes MT, Thonicke K, Thuiller W, Tuck G, Zaehle S, Zierl B (2005) Ecosystem service supply and vulnerability to global change in Europe. Science 310:1333-1337, doi:10.1126/science.1115233
• Metzger MJ, Leemans R, Schröter D, Cramer W and the ATEAM consortium (2004) The ATEAM vulnerability mapping tool. Quantitative approaches in systems analysis No. 27, CD-ROM publication, Office C.T. de Wit Graduate School for Production Ecology & Resource Conservation (PE&RC), Wageningen, The Netherlands. http://www.pik-potsdam.de/ateam/
• Metzger MJ, Rounsevell MDA, Acosta-Michlik L, Leemans R, Schröter D (2006) The vulnerability of ecosystem services to land use change. Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 114:64-85. doi:10.1016/j.agee.2005.11.025

...on historical cases:

• Fraser EDG (2003) Social vulnerability and ecological fragility: Building bridges between social and natural sciences using the Irish Potato Famine as a case study. Conservation Ecology 7(2):9. http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss2/art9/
• Schröter D (2005) Vulnerability to changes in ecosystem services. CID Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow Working Paper No. 10, Center for International Development (CID), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA, pp 22. (pdf: 200KB)

...on biodiversity

• Brooks TM, Mittermeier RA, da Fonseca GAB, Gerlach J, Hoffmann M, Lamoreux JF, Mittermeier CG, Pilgrim JD, Rodrigues ASL (2006) Global biodiversity conservation priorities. Science 313:58-61, doi:10.1126/science.1127609

Some reading on adaptation to climate change

• King D (2005) Climate change: the science and the policy. Journal of Applied Ecology 42:779-783. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01089.x
• Hulme PE (2005) Adapting to climate change: is there scope for ecological management in the face of a global threat? Journal of Applied Ecology 42:784-794. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2005.01082.x