Climate Impact Assessment

This chapter highlights key climate impacts, hazards and vulnerabiities and associated indicators that have been used to assess current (recent) climate impacts at each of the case-study sites. The aime is to illustrate some of the wide range of information available from individual case studies and highlight common themes that are evident across multiple case-study locations. This is used to demonstrate linkages and sensitivities between the specific climate impacts of relevance for each case-study type (urban, rural and coastal) and the key climate hazards and biogeophysical and social vulnerabilities representing the underlying drivers and site conditions. For some impacts, there are clear, direct links with climate events, such as heat stress and floodin, while for others, such as energy supply and demand, the casual relationships are more indirect, via a cascade of climate, social and economics influences.