CARTIF projects

PRO-CLIMATE

Proactive community adaptation to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change

Description

PRO-CLIMATE’s strategic objective is to support communities to proactively adapt to climate change through social transformation and behavioural change. To achieve this, PRO-CLIMATE will identify social tipping points and policy actions to achieve systemic transformation across social systems. PRO-CLIMATE will adopt an approach guided by the concept of systems thinking, which views communities as complex systems interconnected and influenced by multiple socio-economic and environmental factors. By understanding and harnessing their dynamics, it will develop strategies and interventions that promote social transformation and behavioural change. The result will be a solid framework for designing effective methodologies and tools that foster proactively adaptive behaviours and facilitate transformative change. A set of diverse case studies (in terms of climate change issues and socio-economic contexts) across Europe will be an instrumental tool for co-creating, validating and scaling up this framework by running living labs and bringing together stakeholders to understand community governance and institutional structures, and also to promote social change.

 

Objectives

    • Develop a living laboratory framework to enable real-world settings in six (6) European countries to design, implement, test and monitor systemic transformation to achieve climate resilience through behavioural changes and governance strategies.
    • Identify the key components of each climate adaptation system, their interactions, systemic interdependencies and trade-offs.
    • Increase the behavioural change capacity of case study communities to design and implement sustainable, integrated and inclusive solutions to accelerate climate resilience, so that sustainable and effective solutions to support climate resilience are promoted by communities, and sustainable and effective solutions are provided to support climate resilience.
    • Develop a multi-agent computer model (MACM) of the key dimensions of the European socio-ecological system based on data and knowledge generated in the project and designed to enable the identification of social tipping points and leverage points that enable systemic transformations towards climate resilience, and to develop from the MACM a policy tool to enable realistic forward-looking analysis of existing and future policy scenarios that can deliver systemic transformations towards climate resilience.
    • Provide concrete and tailored operational recommendations, in cooperation with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, to accelerate systemic transformation in the six selected case studies and beyond. This will use the results of the living labs, key drivers and mapping, as well as the behaviour change workshops, together with the digital tool TransCliR.

Actions

  • Participate in the identification of the focal action situation in the Badajoz region.
  • Support in the identification of the main drivers and obstacles of social transformation at community level in the Badajoz region.
  • Work with the Diputación de Badajoz on its case study through its change processes, in order to enhance individual, organisational and institutional change capacity to accelerate climate resilience.
  • Participation in tailor-made events organised by the Diputación de Badajoz bringing together all stakeholders to implement behavioural change

Expected Results

  • Identification of key components of climate adaptation systems, their interactions, systemic interdependencies and trade-offs.
  • Design, implementation and evaluation of a living laboratory framework.
  • The identification of social tipping points and leverage actions for policy makers.
  • The development of a multi-agent computational model for European socio-ecological systems to enable realistic analysis of current and future policy scenarios likely to produce systemic transformations.
  • Policy recommendations to accelerate systemic change.

R&D Line

  • Research in forest management through the quantification of ecosystem services of forest stands and their performance in the face of climate change.

Partners

Horizon Europe

101137967

Total Budget: 3,666,685€

CARTIF Budget: 256,875€

CARTIF Grant: 256,875€

Duration: 01/01/2024 – 31/12/2026

Responsible

José Mª Sanz

Division of Agrifood and Processes

josmar@cartif.es

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