What data do we need to have to build Scotland's resilience and adaptation to Climate Change?
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Question Group: Focused on creating climate-resilient landscapes through optimised land use, and climate-positive landscapes through research to reduce emissions and enhance natural carbon sinks. Emphasises systems thinking and leveraging data, modelling, and decision-support tools to mitigate climate impacts, enhance land management, and manage pressures on water resources while promoting a just transition.
Sub-questions: -What data will we need to make intelligent decisions about future CC-impacted geographies of Scotland?
-What is the role for LiDAR data and other data here?
-What data do we need about ENRA sector's business's understanding of climate change and what influences them to adapt?
-What data do we need to understand the impacts of climate change on different rural communities, and what influences them to adapt?
-How can we better quantify the adaptation benefits of nature based solutions?
-Can we quantify the carbon stocks and carbon sequestration in active and inactive floodplains in Scotland?
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Environment natural resources agriculture research strategy 2027 2032
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Related UKRI funded projects
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Topic A: Open CLimate IMpacts modelling framework (OpenCLIM)
Climate change is one of the major threats of the 21st Century both nationally and globally. This requires a joint response of mitigation and adaptation as enshrined in the UK Climate Change Act, which mandates a Climate...
Funded by: SPF
Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia
Why might this be relevant?
The project focuses on assessing climate risks and adaptation needs in the UK, including impacts on biodiversity, agriculture, infrastructure, and urban areas.
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Identifying potential tipping points in the benefits derived from the UK's land ecosystems
Our research aims to identify whether the benefits flowing to us from the UK's land ecosystems - including the provision of food, recreational value, water quality, natural flood protection, and greenhouse gas storage - ...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
Why might this be relevant?
The project aims to identify potential tipping points in benefits derived from UK's land ecosystems due to climate change, land-use change, and policy change.
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Modelling the impact of future climate change on flood risk in Scotland
The availability of digital representations of topography from remote sensing instruments plays a key role in a number of different scientific fields, such as hydrology, geomorphology, and glaciology. Furthermore, the an...
Funded by: NERC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
Why might this be relevant?
Partially relevant as it focuses on flood risk in Scotland, but does not address all aspects of climate change resilience and adaptation.