State of the Art Review on Adaptation

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assessment Methodologies for vulnerability, impacts and adaptive capacity assessment Future vulnerability, impacts, adaptive capacity assessment Natural systems/Sectors

Natural systems Water resources and soil and ecosystems; Human health Health protection through the protection of the urban environment; Socio-economic systems - Prevention of climate change impacts on economic activities, especially the primary sector.

STAKEHOLDER INVOLVEMENT AND COMMUNICATION â–Ą No

Stakeholder participation

X Yes

Stakeholder involved

Administrations and public institutions, social, economic and scientific techniques, citizenship

Key stakeholder Methods used to involve stakeholder

Coordinated and continuous participation of all actors in order to: - promote the coordination between the various stakeholders so as to optimize the efforts - define specific policy measures and promote them - optimize the monitoring of the Plan and adjust the objectives - promote civic behaviours favourable to the objectives of the Plan and report the level of progress to the various agents. The participatory model is characterized by providing appropriate tools to different stakeholders so as to give them different responsibility. Citizen participation will be associated to communication. This communication will be bidirectional, so that the citizenship will act for both suggestions and proposals and receptor of information. Participation of the productive agents will be addressed to information and communication as well as to evaluation. So in addition to sending and receiving information the analysis of difficulties and objections associated to sectoral policies will be performed. The role of government and public institutions will be to communicate and monitor, review and modify the PVLCC. Various participatory tools. The coordination and combination of all of them will ensure the development of a dynamic participatory process and the involvement of the social global dimension: - forum agents: to publicly report to various social and economic groups on the level of progress of the Plan in relation to the initial objectives as well as to gather suggestions and contributions. Each year these forums will be organised, but two of them will have a relevant meaning: the year 2010 (halfway of the period) and before the end of the period of PVLCC. Each of these forums will consist of separate meetings for different actors: - social forum: civic associations - business forum: industrial and business sector - scientific-technical forum: universities and research centres - inter-agency coordination forum: analysis of the various actions carried out by different administrations by including the experiences promoted at local level. Each year a coordination forum at technical level will be developed. - interregional coordination forum: collaboration between regions in order to fight against climate change, by implementing as a platform to share information and best practices and by promoting collaborations in sustainable development issues among regions through the NRG Network and the Regions of the Atlantic Arc.

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