Building of Platform for Development of Integrated Model to Assess Climate Change Impacts and Vulnerability

Abstract

Climate change, by its nature, will affect various realms such as society, economy and the environment. In this sense, it is necessary to develop technologies to assess climate change impacts that can pre-emptively consider individual fields including health, water management, forest, agriculture and ecosystems as well as accidents and disasters, and the interaction among the fields in order to analyse climate change impacts. To provide a platform for the integrated assessment models to develop the climate change integrated impacts and vulnerability assessment models and address political issues, MOTIVE (Model of InTegrated Impacts and Vulnerability Evaluation of climate change) has been conducted as a part of a national R&D project since 2014. Under the project, the study built the common DB with 101 integrated items and 1,355 layers that can be commonly used by each field and the DB utilization system, and also developed a tool that displays the results of the climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment models by field. The tool maximized convenience by providing various analysis functions such as visualization, spatial distribution, bias and schematization of the vulnerability assessment results by field. Using the platform of the DB utilization system and the resulting display tool of MOTIVE, it is possible to compare and analyse the results of the climate change impacts and vulnerability assessment models by field, which is likely to be used as an effective means of decision making in the future. This platform will serve as a foundation for building the basis upon which integrated models can be utilized to assess climate change impacts and vulnerability in the future.