Working Groups

Working Groups at the 3rd ALTER-Net Summer School, Peyresq 2 - 14 September 2008

Tutors

Wolfgang Cramer
Wolfgang.Cramer -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Personal homepage

Nicolas Dendoncker
n.dendoncker -at- ed.ac.uk
Centre for the study of Environmental Change and Sustainability (CECS), School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JN, UK

Chief Tutor: Uta Fritsch
Uta.Fritsch -at- eurac.edu
Coordinator of EURAC-Junior, Science Communication, EURAC research, Viale Druso 1, I-39100 Bolzano, Italy

Rik Leemans
Rik.Leemans -at- wur.nl
Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, P.O. Box 47, 6700 AA Wageningen, The Netherlands
Personal homepage

Diana Reckien
reckien -at- pik-potsdam.de
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Allan Watt
a.watt -at- ceh.ac.uk
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Edinburgh, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Midlothian, EH26 0QB, Scotland, UK

On the last day of the summer school all five working groups presented their results:
- Synthesis group (pdf: 800KB)
- Water group (pdf: 2MB)
- Agriculture group (pdf: 600KB)
- Rural-Urban Transition group (pdf: 2MB)
- Nature Conservation group (pdf: 500KB)

After the summer school most the sectoral reports where revised and submitted via the tutors to the summer school secretariat where all subreports were united in a final report (pdf: 6MB).

Here you can download the final reports separately:
- Synthesis (pdf: 900KB)
- Water (pdf: 700KB)
- Agriculture (pdf: 1MB)
- Rural-urban transition (pdf: 1MB)
- Nature conservation (pdf: 500KB)

Recommended background literature for the working groups:

• 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)
  

• 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

• 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

• 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://edmc1.dwaf.gov.za/library/limpopo/index.htm

• 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.dwd.de/bvbw/generator/Sites/DWDWWW/Content/Oeffentlichkeit/ KU/KU2/KU22/klimastatusbericht/einzelne__berichte/download__ksb2005, templateId=raw,property=publicationFile.pdf/download_ksb2005.pdf.
• 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

• 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

• 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)

• 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

• 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