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Project title

Developing guidelines for the integration of climate adaptation in Irish spatial planning and SEA procedures

Primary Funding Agency

Environmental Protection Agency

Co-Funding Organisation(s)

n/a

Lead Organisation

University College Cork (UCC)

Lead Applicant

Stefan Gray

Project Abstract

The primary goal of the proposed fellowship is to design, evaluate and document tractable and tangible approaches for the integration of climate change adaptation within the practices and procedures of local authority planning and SEA. Achieving this goal will involve bridging a substantial divide between the largely analytical and conceptual adaptation research conducted to date and the practical needs of planners and SEA practitioners who are faced with the everyday challenges of meeting numerous statutory and stakeholder-driven obligations. The objectives, tasks, and programme of work I propose are thus focussed to as great a degree as is practicable on identifying concrete approaches to trial and evaluate prior to the drafting of end-user guidelines. A key prerequisite to the success of the proposed research will be embedding its conduct firmly within the respective communities of practice of local planning and SEA. In this regard, the successful completion of research projects such as CLAD, CoastAdapt and IMCORE have provided a legacy of trust and goodwill between myself as a researcher and a number of senior planners, SEA practitioners and the wider stakeholder community across Ireland. Further future support and participation in the evaluation of the approaches detailed below should be guaranteed.

Grant Approved

�149,689.02

Research Hub

Climate Change

Research Theme

Ireland's Future Climate, its Impacts, and Adaptation Options

Start Date

01/01/2013

Initial Projected Completion Date

31/12/2015