Climate change impact assessment
We prepare climate change impact assessment studies on various areas to assist in strategic decision making.
About the project
Ecotourism models for the protection of the natural environment or CLIMECO I is a study funded by the call for research projects for non-profit foundations granted by the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge during the year 2021.
Objectives
CLIMECO I aims to:
- Methodological review in order to estimate the impacts on the natural environment in the Pyrenees due to anthropic pressure and climate change. We have identified those variables or indicators that allow us to analyze the critical areas of protection against habitat fragmentation and the loss of biodiversity and woodlands. To guarantee an adequate use of the indicators, the local climatic scenarios available for the Pyrenees have been validated according to historical observations.
Results
Among its main results, the following stand out:
- On the one hand, the need to have a greater quantity and quality of climate information for a more robust estimation of the impacts of climate change that will allow us to estimate a range of specific adaptation and mitigation measures for tourism. It is therefore necessary to continue generating updated local scenarios in the future in order to establish new measures.
- In the area of ecotourism, a series of features to be highlighted and the corresponding proposals for action are put forward. In general, it can be said that there is an urgent need to integrate international recommendations into local national and regional policies and to strengthen adaptation.
- In addition, it is urgent to place adaptation at the center of planning, improve resources for innovation and data collection focused on articulating a knowledge system across the Pyrenees, converge and align agendas and policies throughout the mountain range and establish models and experimental applications of adaptive management.
Funded by
Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge through grants to third-sector entities or non-governmental organizations that carry out activities of general interest considered to be of social interest in the field of scientific and technical research and environmental protection under state jurisdiction. This research has been funded by the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge but does not express its opinion.
