A stakeholder dialogue on European vulnerability |
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| Authors: | Anne C de la Vega-Leinert Dagmar Schröter Rik Leemans Uta Fritsch Jacomijn Pluimers |
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| Institution: | (1) Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany;(2) Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands;(3) Institute of Geography and Geology, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University of Greifswald, Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Str. 16, 17487 Greifswald, Germany;(4) Present address: Umweltbundesamt GmbH, Vienna, Austria and George Perkins Marsh Institute, Clark University, 950 Main Street, Worcester, MA 01610-1477, USA;(5) Present address: Environmental Systems Analysis Group, Wageningen, PO Box 47, 6700, AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands;(6) Present address: Claudia di Medici 19, 39100 Bolzano, Italy;(7) Present address: The Netherlands Society for Nature and Environment, PO Box 1578, 3500 BN Utrecht, The Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | A stakeholder dialogue was embedded in the ATEAM project to facilitate the development and dissemination of its European-wide
vulnerability assessment of global change impacts. Participating stakeholders were primarily ecosystem managers and policy
advisers interested in potential impacts on ‘Agriculture’, ‘Forestry’, ‘Water’, ‘Carbon storage’, ‘Biodiversity’ and ‘Mountain
environments’ sectors. First, stakeholder dialogue approaches to integrated assessment are introduced. Methodological considerations
on stakeholder selection and dialogue implementation and evaluation follow. The dialogue content and process are evaluated
from the perspectives of stakeholders and scientists. Its usefulness in the research process and the relevance of outcomes
for stakeholders are particularly considered. The challenging compromises required to perform innovative research, which seeks
to achieve both peer scientific credibility and societal relevance, are emphasized. Effective stakeholder dialogues play a
substantial role in raising the visibility and meaningfulness of vulnerability assessments as critical means to improve awareness
on global change and its potential worrying impacts on society. They further provide scientists with critical information
on ecosystem management and sectoral adaptive capacity. These processes of mutual learning and knowledge exchange moreover
foster a better understanding of the potential and limits of global change modelling and vulnerability assessment for policy
and ecosystem management.
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| Keywords: | Global change Ecosystem service provision Stakeholder dialogue Participative integrated assessment Vulnerability Adaptation Europe |
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