The EU H2020 funded I-CISK project will innovate existing climate services by integrating local data and knowledge, perceptions and preferences of users with scientific knowledge. I-CISK will develop next-generation climate services based on a co-production approach so that climate services meet the climate information needs of citizens, decision-makers and stakeholders at the spatial and temporal scale relevant to them.
In this project, IVM will develop a process guideline for co-designing user-driven climate services. We will co-explore end-user needs and the potential added-value of climate services. By integrating local knowledge into models and combining with large-scale earth observations and understanding adaptive behaviour, we aim to tailor climate information based on the envisioned adaptation options. The climate services aim to enable end-users to adopt efficient climate adaptation decisions at different time scales (sub-seasonal to seasonal) and longer term concerns (decadal to end of century climate change timescale).
Building on this exploration of knowledge, perceptions, preferences and behaviour, IVM will develop conceptual, empirical and dynamic (open source) models to unravel the interaction and feedbacks between climate change, climate services, and adaptation actions at different spatial-temporal scales. Understanding the feedbacks between climate change and adaptation actions is of pivotal importance to achieving a resilient future. We want to understand how adaptation actions based on climate change information can lead to different planning decisions, unintended consequences, possible lock-ins, and consequently different climate-resilience pathways achieving a zero-emission pathway by 2050. Citizens and decision-makers will be actively engaged to improve their understanding on climate change impacts and the interplays with the human-climate system by means of participatory modelling, planning, and decision-making activities. The circumstances in which these reciprocal effects emerge will be investigated in cases of multiple and consecutive hazards (e.g. floods after droughts and vice versa) in different Living Labs, including in the Rijnland basin in the Netherlands.
The project is coordinated by IHE-Delft, and besides IVM includes ECMWF (UK), SMHI (SE), CREAF (ES), Uppsala University (SE), Rode Kruis (NL), Gecosistema (IT), Caucasus Environmental NGO Network (GE), UCM (ES), 52 North Initiative (DE), IDEAS (HU) and EMVIS (EL).
Contact information: Anne van Loon, Marije Schaafsma and Marthe Wens