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Compendium on methods and tools to evaluate impacts of, and vulnerability and adaptation to, climate
change
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Resource Approach to Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Human
Activity
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Description
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Resource approach allows decision makers to include information on climate conditions and their
change directly in economic analysis.
The climate resources estimation helps to represent spatial distribution of climate resources for
given field of human activity and to evaluate total climate resources for concrete region and to
compare them over the whole country. This methodology creates opportunities to compare climate
resources for different economic sectors in various regions at present and in the future and to
choose the regions that could be optimal for development of specific activity taking into account
probable climate change. Particularly, this approach provides some tools to assess vulnerability of
regions and economic sectors to climate change in terms of climate resources change.
Resource approach involves 5 steps:
- To select specific indexes of climate impact on objects and processes in a given economy
sector;
- To calculate these impact indexes both at present and for the future using results regional
climate projections;
- To convert climate impact indexes from initial physical units to relative (non-dimensional)
units;
- To estimate climate resource for a given economy sector in each region of the country;
- To compare climate resource values in different regions and choose the optimal ones.
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Appropriate Use
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Resource approach is relevant to decision makers who are responsible for regional planning of
economic activity, strategic planning of a given economy sector, ensuring the sustainable development
of the region’s economy. This information can be also used for concrete applications including
the estimation of economic value for land.
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Scope
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All regions, all economic sectors.
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Key Output
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The values of climate resources and evaluation of adaptation potential to climate change for various
economic branches in all regions of a given country expressed in relative and monetary (for some
sectors) units.
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Key Input
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Meteorological data for specific climate impact index calculations, results of regional climate
projections.
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Ease of Use
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Relatively easy to apply, only basic computer skills are needed.
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Training Required
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Requires little training, but it requires expert knowledge to choose appropriate climate impact
indexes.
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Training Available
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No formal training currently offered. Sources of assistance / consulting can be obtained from
contacts.
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Computer Requirements
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Computer access
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Documentation
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Encyclopedia of climate resources of Russia. 2005, 319 pp., Gidrometeoizdat, St. Petersburg.
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Applications
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Applications across a wide range of regions in Russian Federation in the following sectors:
building construction, land use planning, power grid planning.
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Contacts for Framework, Documentation, Technical Assistance
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Nina Kobysheva
Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory, 194021 Karbyshev Str. 7, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation;
Tel: +7.812.2974390; Fax: +7.812.297.8661; e-mail: director@main.mgo.rssi.ru or kobyshnv@main.mgo.rssi.ru.
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Cost
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Depends on breadth of assessment
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References
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Akentyeva, E.M. 2005. New approaches to the climate resource estimation. In Proceedings - GCOS
Regional Workshop for Eastern and Central Europe, Leipzig, Germany [CD-ROM computer file].
Kobysheva, N.V. and O.B. Iljina. 2001. Methodology of climate resource estimation in Leningrad
region. Meteorology and climatology 9:17-24.
Kobysheva, N.V. 2005. Climate as a Natural Resource for Integrated Planning and Management. In
Proceedings - Technical Conference “Climate as a Resource”, Beijing, China [CD-ROM
computer file].
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