FRACTAL Principles
Throughout the FRACTAL project, the team determined several lessons for research and society, particularly with regard to working towards inclusive, contextual, and proactive climate research and action. Engage with the principles that underpinned the climate resilience work in the project.
The Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal
This article introduces the Adaptation at Altitude Solutions Portal for climate change adaptation (and related areas) in mountain regions, and describes how it has been and will continue to be developed.
VKE2: Supporting and working with local actors
Participants shared practical experiences in supporting and working with local authorities and other local users, providing ideas and inspiration to apply across knowledge platforms.
Bridging the Gap between User Requirements and Climate Adaptation Services
This meeting explored engagement approaches being employed by climate adaptation service providers to support adaptation decision-making and elicited user needs and expectations of these services.
Co-exploratory climate risk workshops
The paper describes a place-based co-exploratory analysis of climate risks.
The Story of Water in Windhoek
The aim of the paper is to present a story about the 2015 to early 2017 Windhoek drought in the context of climate change while using the narrative approach.
Research Methods for Understanding and Supporting Decision Processes in African Cities
This paper explores how several decision-making "process" and "support " methods can lead to better informed climate change adaptation decisions in Southern Africa.
City government-research partnerships
This briefing note provides reflections on city government-research partnerships, from Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Climate narratives
This briefing note provides reflections on the climate risk narrative process: What have we tried? What have we learned? What does this mean for us going forward?
Transdisciplinarity, co-production, and co-exploration
This working paper presents the concepts of transdisciplinarity, knowledge co-production, and coexploration and their challenges, and how they are being operationalised in FRACTAL.
Learning within & about climate science
This briefing note provides key discussion points on the role of learning in integrating climate science into decision making.
Climate Information Distillation
This briefing note presents a distillation framework: an attempt to re-think how we go about constructing information to inform decisions.
An app to fight against floods, wildfires and extreme weather events
The app enables its users to share pictures and other information on natural hazards and provides extensive information from multiple sources about the risks of suffering from these threats.
Delivering Climate Services: Organizational Strategies and Approaches for Producing Useful Climate-Science Information
This paper reports on research that evaluated how three Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments produced useful climate information for improved decision support in a variety of sectors.
Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation
ESPA is a global interdisciplinary research programme that aims to give decision-makers and natural resource users the evidence they need to address the challenges of sustainable ecosystem manageme
National Adaptation Plan Global Network
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network aims to enhance national adaptation planning and action in developing countries by:
ZOI Environment Network
Zoï Environment Network (Zoï) is a Swiss non-profit organization that provides analysis and training, policy dialogue and commun
SeaTrust Institute
The SeaTrust Institute is an environmental research and educational nonprofit organization actively working on environmental science and policy issues both locally and globally. The institute is en
FRACTAL climate and cities project
The FRACTAL (2015-2019) project advanced scientific knowledge about Southern Africa's climate, and integrated this knowledge into decisions at the city-regional scale.
High-level political support & sectoral integration in NAP processes
The NAP Global Network’s inaugural Targeted Topics Forum addressed securing political support and sectoral integration in the NAP process. This report summarizes key lessons that emerged.
Mistra-SWECIA
Mistra-SWECIA was a Swedish, multidisciplinary programme that developed research-based knowledge and decision-making support for adaptation to climate change in the Swedish forestry sector.
Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI)
FOI is one of Europe’s leading research institutes in the areas of defence and security. We have 930 highly skilled employees with various backgrounds.
