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This article sheds light on the usage of resilience as a quantitative, evidence based framework for management of climatic hazards in coastal areas of the United Kingdom.

The UK Climate Resilience Programme brings together climate research and expertise and undertakes climate risk and adaptation research to build resilience to climate change in the UK.

The private sector is realizing that there are significant risks to their businesses related to climate change impacts. In Brazil, the Business for Climate Platform (EPC) has established a Framework and tool to support the elaboration of corporate strategies for adaptation to climate change.

There has been a global decline in abundance of Atlantic salmon stocks in the last 30-40 years, and Scotland has suffered in the reduction of salmon returning to its rivers to spawn. This decline is probably due to a number of factors, including: river pollution, man-made obstacles to migration upstream, disease and predation by non-native species, accidental netting at sea, and the effects of climate change both in the marine and fluvial environments.

Executive summary The UK’s transport network is already experiencing various impacts of climate change, including extreme weather events. Relevant climate...

Executive summary The Focus of the Analysis This report addresses the question: “What is the case for further action in...

Stakeholder participation can be used to democratise science and empower citizens, to inform policy making and to advise decision-making processes.

Identification of stakeholders, and developing a plan for their participation throughout the screening process will be based on sound stakeholder analysis.