Climate change is one of the defining issues of the 21st century, with the climate becoming more variable and severe weather events such as floods, droughts and extreme heat occurring more frequently. Adaptation to climate change requires climate smart decisions foster resilience to the future climate.
I-CISK’s ambition to innovate how climate information is used, interpreted and acted on through a next-generation of Climate Services that follow a human centred, social and behaviourally informed approach; integrating the knowledges, needs and perceptions of climate information.
In I-CISK we take an action research approach to fast-track research to impacts by co-developing a framework for human centred climate services in and with the users of seven Living Labs in Europe and Africa. Each living lab is located in a climate change hotspot with specific geographical and climatic settings, and with a focus on key socio-economic sectors.
The first 6 months of 2022 have been quite challenging for water resources in Italy, progressively facing the worst drought season of the past decades, the Italian living lab has been setup and moved its first steps the Multi Actor
As part of our consortium, I-CISK is happy to welcome a pool of young researchers (PhDs) – Lotte Muller, Ricardo Biella, and Sumiran Rastogi who will be intricately linked with several core activities of the project and will be instrumental
In February 2022 members of the UCM and CREAF teams traveled to the region of Los Pedroches and to the Cazorla National Park, in south-central Spain to meet with some key stakeholders and launch the Andalucía Living Lab. The Andalucía
