Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Efforts in Different Economic Sectors of the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine

34 Pages Posted: 25 Jul 2022

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Nicolas Scholze

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Rüdiger Glaser

University of Freiburg

Nils Riach

University of Freiburg

Gaël Bohnert

affiliation not provided to SSRN

brice martin

Université de Haute Alsace

Abstract

The Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine (TMO 3 ) is a polycentric and highly urbanized region in Central Europe. The impacts of climate change onto the regional enterprises are complex and differ sectorwise and according to geographical factors. In this paper, we take a differentiated look at climate change impacts and adaptation efforts in nine of the region’s most affected sectors: agriculture, forestry & wood processing, food & beverage industries, water supply, logistics, winter tourism, manufacturing industries and the building sector. Framed by risk concepts we evaluate 157 interviews with company representatives and an additional online survey. We present an overview of sector-specific patterns of climate change impacts and adaptation efforts. Furthermore, we investigate the affected business units and fields of action for adaptation measures in a cross-sector perspective. Our results show that heat is the most relevant climatic stressor for a majority of the regional enterprises, followed by general warming and droughts. Extreme weather events like heavy rain, floods, thunderstorms or hail also play a considerable role, but adaptation to those phenomena appears to be less developed. This is an important starting point for future adaptation strategies and sector-specific recommendations by policy makers and local stakeholders.

Keywords: climate change impacts, adaptation efforts, economic sectors, enterprises, Upper Rhine Region

Suggested Citation

Scholze, Nicolas and Glaser, Rüdiger and Riach, Nils and Bohnert, Gaël and martin, brice, Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Efforts in Different Economic Sectors of the Trinational Metropolitan Region Upper Rhine. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4171547 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4171547

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Rüdiger Glaser

University of Freiburg ( email )

Nils Riach

University of Freiburg ( email )

Gaël Bohnert

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Brice Martin

Université de Haute Alsace ( email )

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