The Consortium is gaining increasing experience in the development and application of methodologies for the analysis of climate change impact and risks on human and environmental systems. Specifically, this research area employs the following methods:

Assessment on a regional scale

• Application of regional risk and vulnerability assessment procedures; construction of integrated climate change hazard scenarios at regional level (e.g. scenarios of inundation, erosion and water quality variations for the case study area) and integration of environmental and socio-economic impact assessment.

Participative processes

• Application of methodologies for the identification of stakeholders’ needs for climate change management.

Environmental fate and transport modelling

• Environmental fate and transport modelling for persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and study of the impact of climate scenarios on the environmental fate and transport of POPs.

Tools and methods applied in the Climate change research area are directly developed by the Consortium as partner of the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC, www.cmcc.it), within the Impacts on Soil and Water Division (ISC), and make use of the climate scenarios implemented by CMCC for the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea area.