Abstract
Abstract. A great variety of local sectors, e. g. water management, urban planning, agriculture, forestry, regional development, soil protection, nature conservation, and others, is nowadays concerned with deciding on climate change adaptation measures. Sectoral departments perceive that it is necessary to build bridges between different administrational offices due to various dependences and interactions. Increasing heavy rainfalls, for instance, are an often-mentioned threat that is caused by climate change in certain regions. Heavy rainfalls lead to flooding on the one, and soil erosion on the other hand. Flooding, as well as erosion, cause damages for buildings, road networks, and other infrastructures. Both events can also have negative aftermaths for agriculture (loss of arable land) and settlements (landslides, accumulation of mud on roads or in gardens). To mitigate such threats, it is often desirable not to start single, sectoral actions, but to develop measures that take into account comprehensively the different perspectives from relevant sectors.Meanwhile, the BebeR-project, a collaborative network within which all relevant actors participate in the decision-making processes on climate change adaptation measures, was finished as a follow-up of the foregoing project KLIMPASS (https://klimpass.de/). Spatial data and web-map-services played a central supporting role to enable fair collaboration and decision making, as this paper will show.
Highlights
“Adaptation (...) refers to the actions that countries will need to take to respond to the impacts of climate change that are already happening, while at the same time preparing for future impacts
Within the BebeR-project, which was finished before the Pandemic began, it was obvious that due to varying actors a commonly coordinated course of action on the local scale had to be implemented aiming at accomplishing sustainable results
The mitigation of harmful consequences of climate change plays a major role on the regional, and local scale. This initial discovery led to the implementation of a collaborative network of different actors within the project BebeR
Summary
“Adaptation (...) refers to the actions that countries will need to take to respond to the impacts of climate change that are already happening, while at the same time preparing for future impacts. The development of measures to mitigate implications of climate change requires collaboration between the sectors that are affected. The actors collaborating within BebeR were, among others, various representatives from different sectors such as water management, regional planning, agriculture, forestry, nature protection, and others. The professional contexts were diverse, and different goals, interests and opinions about the “best” measures to mitigate climate change threats resulted. To achieve an effective communication process between the different participants it was decided to establish a common database and supporting IT services. It became clear that BebeR represents a structure that is today known under the term “Living Lab”: “A kind of giant sandbox in which there is the freedom to explore—creatively and collaboratively—the technological, environmental, economic and societal aspects of sustainability” (UBC 2018), focusing on problems of climate change
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