Samuli Lehtonen | 2005-01-01
The City of Helsinki can be seen administratively as a complex system and hierarchy, in which communication on sea level rise related issues is transferred from e.g. science to planning or technical infrastructure decisions to the city planning department...
Lasse Peltonen | 2005-02-18
In the SEAREG project, it has become evident that integrating climate change adaptation into planning practices is not simply a one-way process of transferring climate science data to planners. The importance of learning concerns both the scientists and the planning practitioners...
Heidi Virkki | 2005-04-01
The Vulnerability Assessment in Itä-Uusimaa was carried out by interviewing local and regional experts. The qualitative approach and theme interviews suited the meaning well since the topic is still quite new for many stakeholders. Also the development of the Vulnerability Assessment was easier because of the direct feedback...
Michael Staudt | 2005-03-23
The sea level rise scenario maps were discussed with local experts of Gdańsk and Sopot city planning office and interviews were performed during the Gdańsk case study meeting in October 2004. So far climate change, respectively sea level rise, is not a topic for the spatial planners in the region...
Lasse Peltonen | 2005-03-30
Within the SEAREG project, the round table discussions organized in Helsinki provided insight to the way the knowledge transfer between science and planning is perceived by the different actors. The discussions also provided information on how planners and scientists could cooperate in a fruitful way...
Lasse Peltonen | 2005-03-23
During the SEAREG project, it became evident that sea-level related information may prove sensitive or even conflictual, because it combines uncertainties (e.g. occurence of extreme events and knowledge on climate change) to interests such as planning and investment decisions or land and property values...
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