Policy Domain 

Case Study P3d – Regions (Region i: The Tisza  Basin, Region ii: The Guadiana  Basin, Region iii: Inner Mongolia) will adopt a place-based approach. The PAF will be applied in three separate localities to develop and test regional policies which contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation goals. It will address on related environmental issues as water management, forestry, agriculture, bio-energy, and integrated spatial planning. The regional cases were chosen to illustrate a range of regional policy challenges (e.g. Spain: drought issues; Hungary: flooding, contamination, and Joint Implementation forestry issues; and China: water management, desertification and Clean Development Mechanism options).


Each Case Study will establish links with different ADAM Work Packages and will follow a similar overall ADAM methodology, even though the details may change in each case. They will develop a set of deliverables with a common format that address the appraisal of a range of new (i.e., beyond business-as-usual) mitigation and adaptation policy options as applied to four Case Studies spanning a range of scales and sectors. In association with Work Package P1, this Work Package as a whole will result in the refinement of the ADAM PAF through iterative application in different policy contexts.

Three regional Case Studies will be conducted in ADAM to test and show the applicability of the PAF. These case studies are all one work package.

The selected regions are:

P3di)    Tisza river basin in Hungary;

P3dii)    Guadiana river basin in Spain and Portugal;

P3diii)   Inner Mongolia of northern China.

 
The PAF will be applied to these localities in order to develop and test regional policies which contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation goals and will focus on related environmental issues as water management, forestry, agriculture, bio energy, and integrated spatial planning. These regional cases were chosen because of their differences (e.g. Spain: drought issues; Hungary: flooding, contamination, and Joint Implementation forestry issues; and China: water management, desertification and Clean Development Mechanism options). The Spain and Hungary cases also represent respectively old EU member states and new member states.  Implementation of the PAF will differ between all three regional Case Studies because of differing ecological circumstances and political institutions.
 
Because all three cases build on existing projects going on in the regions, partial databases are already available. Rather large river basins were chosen because it is here that climate mitigation and adaptation goals come together in sectoral, economic and institutional aspects in the land use.  Furthermore, these river basins match quite well institutionally to NUTS levels which will ease the data gathering.

 Case Study P3di:  Tisza river basin, Hungary

 The overall objective is to bring together innovative policy options from previous and ongoing projects in the Hungarian part of the Tisza basin, evaluate these in the Policy Appraisal Framework, and deliver feedback for improvement of the PAF.  In addition the Tisza Case Study aims to substantiate results from the A Domain (e.g. vulnerability map for Europe) by studying the interactions between climate change, non-climatic developments and sectoral policies, and the M Domain (e.g. afforestation).

 A specific objective of this Case Study is to evaluate the cost and benefits of mainstreaming climate change adaptation and mitigation issues into policies and management practices typically not linked to climate issues.  This task aims to identify potential synergies between adaptation, mitigation and non-climatic policy.  Of particular relevance for the Tisza basin are: the institutional nature of new Member States and the joint implementation aspects and potential trade offs between land and water use in stimulating economic development.
 
Case Study P3dii:  Guadiana River Basin, Spain & Portugal

 The primary objective of this Case Study is to apply and test the Policy Appraisal Framework to the Guadiana River Basin and to deliver feedback to the PAF.  A second objective is to substantiate results from the Adaptation Work Domain (e.g. vulnerability map for Europe) and the Mitigation Work Domain (e.g. afforestation) by confronting this work with information and actors at a regional Case Study level.

Case Study P3diii:  Inner Mongolia

The main objective of this Case Study is to examine and evaluate the adaptation and mitigation policy options in Inner Mongolia of China with respect to its development and sustainability in the context of climate change by using the Policy Appraisal Framework to be developed by the ADAM Project. In addition, we will make a detailed comparison between the policies that have been implemented in Inner Mongolia by the Chinese government.