Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability in Scotland: an Integrated Approach

This policy brief summarizes the key findings from the integrated approach implemented as part of the CLIMSAVE project. Many of these results were produced using the interactive web-based tool: the CLIMSAVE Integrated Assessment Platform. 

The content of the policy brief is organized around answers to the following questions:

• How can policy promote climate change adaptation?
• How can stakeholders explore climate change impacts and opportunitites for adaptation?
• What are plausible futures for Scotland?
• What are the key impacts of climate change?
• How might Scotland adapt to climate change?
• What are the costs of adaptation options?
• Where is Scotland most vulnerable to climate change?
• Which adaptation policy strategies are robust to uncertain futures?
• Why adaptation and mitigation need to be integrated?