This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this literature: the still
existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access
and exploit the information produced by policy making at different levels international
national and local. To do so the book presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop
on adaptation modelling integrated with main results from the Study on Adaptation Modelling
(SAM-PS) commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG
CLIMA) and implemented by the CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change in
collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Deltares and Paul Watkiss
Associates (PWA). What is the latest development in adaptation modelling? Which tools and
information are available for adaptation assessment? How much are they practically usable by
the policy community? How their uptake by practitioners can be improved? What are the major
research gaps in adaptation modelling that needs to be covered in the next future? How? This
book addresses these questions presenting the results of a study on adaptation modelling
commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA)
enriched by the outcomes of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation also part of the
research. This book aspires to provide a useful support to academics policy makers and
practitioners in the field of adaptation to orient them in the expanding adaptation modelling
assessment literature and suggest practical ways for its application. This book mainly
addressed to academics policy makers and practitioners in the field of adaptation aims to
providing orientation in the large and expanding methodological quantitative literature
presenting novelties guiding in the practical application of adaptation assessments and
suggesting lines for future research. This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally
tackled by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and modelling and
the possibility to effectively access and exploit the information produced by policy making at
different levels international national and local. To do so the book presents the
proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation modelling integrated with main
results from the Study on Adaptation Modelling (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European
Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and implemented by the CMCC
Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change in collaboration with the Institute
for Environmental Studies (IVM) Deltares and Paul Watkiss Associates (PWA).
