Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC) - Coordination Network (ACN)

适应和适应气候变化(ARCC)是与环境变化共存(LWEC)方案的一部分。由ARCC资助的研究预计将侧重于以下一个或两个主题下的适应和适应气候变化：1.城市环境中的现有建筑物和基础设施系统。英国的基础设施系统，包括交通基础设施和水资源系统。因此，这项研究预计将产生由研究人员、行业合作者、从业人员和利益攸关方组成的多学科小组，其中一些人曾在建设应对气候变化的知识(BKCC)下合作，或通过保持气候变化的知识(SKCC)聚集在一起。通过BKCC和SKCC获得的经验表明，研究努力和最终用户参与的协调都可以使研究受益，并可以通过扩大覆盖范围来提高研究的效益。ACN的交付将建立在从这一经验中吸取的经验教训的基础上，(www.ukcip.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=521&Itemid=9)The ARCC协调网络将促进通过ARCC资助的各种研究项目之间的网络联系，让EPSRC资助的其他相关研究项目(CREW、SCOCHO、LUID和那些在EPSRC呼吁使用概率信息的情况下资助的研究项目)参与ACN，并与其他研究人员和利益攸关方接触，以扩大知情和参与的社区。将这套研究项目作为一个项目组合进行协调，将为各个项目提供共享资源、数据和结果的机会。它还将提供机会，将跨项目的问题和挑战作为一个组合来处理，而不是试图单独处理。将结果作为一个综合，而不仅仅是结果的集合，旨在提高研究成果对从业人员、政策制定者和其他最终用户的价值。与拟议的协调最终用户参与相关的好处与扩大研究结果的影响和有效的最终用户参与有关。参与的最终用户的协调网络将提高传播研究成果的效力和广度，并提高研究人员吸引潜在最终用户的能力。经验表明，通过拟议的网络参与的最终用户更了解情况，因此能够更好地为研究作出贡献，能够更好地了解研究的用处，更愿意和更有能力利用研究成果。他们还将更有能力和更有可能参与在各自社区内进一步传播这些成果。这一协调网络的另一个好处与展望和确定进一步的研究投资有关。一个由研究人员和最终用户组成的知情网络将更有能力查明知识差距和挑战并确定其优先次序。

Adaptation and Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARCC) is part of the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Programme. Research funded under ARCC is expected to focus on adaptation and resilience to climate change under one or both of the following themes:1. Existing buildings and infrastructure systems in the urban environment.2. UK infrastructure systems including transport infrastructure and water resource systems. As such the research is expected to engender multi-disciplinary groups of researchers, industrial collaborators, practitioners and stakeholders some of which have worked together under Building Knowledge for a Changing Climate (BKCC) or were brought together through Sustaining Knowledge for a Changing Climate (SKCC). Experience gained through BKCC and SKCC has shown that coordination, both of the research efforts and of the end-user engagement, can benefit the research and can enhance the benefits from the research through enhanced reach. Delivery of the ACN will build on lessons learned from this experience (www.ukcip.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=521&Itemid=9)The ARCC Coordination Network (ACN) will facilitate networking amongst the various research projects funded through ARCC, engage the other relevant EPSRC-funded research projects (CREW, SCORCHIO, LUCID and those research projects funded under the EPSRC call on the use of probabilistic information) in ACN, and reach out to other researchers and stakeholders to grow the informed and engaged community. Coordinating this suite of research projects as a portfolio will provide opportunities for individual projects to share resources, data and results. It will also provide opportunities to address cross-project issues and challenges as a portfolio rather than attempting to deal with them individually. Presenting the results as a synthesis, rather than only as a collection of results, is intended to enhance the value of the research results to practitioners, policy makers and other end-users.Benefits associated with the proposed coordination of end-user engagement are related to enhancing the reach of the research results and effective end-user engagement. A coordinated network of engaged end-users will increase the efficacy and breadth of the dissemination of research results, as well as the ability of researchers to engage potential end-users. Experience has shown that end-users engaged through a network such as that proposed are more informed and therefore better able to contribute to the research, better able to understand the utility of the research and more willing and able to exploit the research results. They will also be more capable and likely to become involved in further dissemination of those results within their respective communities.A further benefit of this coordinating network is related to looking forward and identifying further investments in research. An informed network of researchers and end-users will be more capable of identifying and prioritising knowledge gaps and challenges.