Climate Change Extremes; Federal Setting; Adaptation; Uncertainty
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Mitigation is the most important response to the threat of climate change, but due to the inertia of the global climate system there is also increasing need for adaptation. This calls for an accurate assessment of adaptation strategies, in particular since most of the existing studies abstract from three important characteristics of adaptation: (1) Future impacts of climate change are uncertain; (2) there exist several options for adapting to a particular impact, which exhibit different temporal and spatial characteristics; (3) adaptation can take place in a federalist setting, where actors differ with respect to information, financial resources and legislative power.The present project aims for developing tools and methods that facilitate a more detailed characterization of climate change adaptation from an economic and policy analysis perspective. These tools and methods are then applied to the specific case of adaptation to a changed probability and magnitude of flood events in Switzerland. Obviously this re-quires an interdisciplinary approach, which integrates environmental economics, hydrology, meteorology, and political sciences. In four research groups, we develop a theoretical basis of adaptation that takes into account the three aforementioned characteristics, which are then used in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models of Switzerland for evaluating feasible adaptation strategies. Both theory development and application will be based on a prediction of climate impacts on hydrological extremes in Switzerland and take into account political barriers to adaptation due to strategic interaction between different levels of Switzerland’s federalist structure. Overall we expect to deliver a refined theory of adaptation, improved tools for quantification of adaptation strategies and a better understanding of efficiency-equity tradeoffs as well as political barriers to adaptation.