Climate Change and Impact Research: the Mediterranean Environment – CIRCE
CIRCE aims at developing for the first time an integrated assessment of the climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area based on the contributions provided by a wide range of expertises from hard and social sciences.
CIRCE aims at developing for the first time an integrated assessment of the climate change impacts in the Mediterranean area based on the contributions provided by a wide range of expertises from hard and social sciences.
The project objectives are firstly to predict and to quantify future climate change physical impacts, then to evaluate the associated social and economic implications for the societies and the populations located in the area. The third, and final aim of CIRCE is to identify appropriate adaptation and mitigation strategies where expert opinions are supported by collaboration and involvement of regional stakeholders.
Project results will be incorporated in a decision support system tool and disseminated to the relevant users. The integrated results discussed by the project CIRCE will be presented in the first Regional Assessment of Climate Change in the Mediterranean area.
CIRCE activities are organised in 13 research lines. FEEM is responsible for the activities of the CIRCE research line 10 (RL10) on Economic Impacts of Climate Change. In particular, this line studies the impacts of climate change on tourism (with a particular focus on temporal shifts and indirect effects), labour and migration, water stress, sea level rise, energy demand, agriculture and ecosystems/biodiversity in the Mediterranean.
RL10 aims to provide an economic assessment to all these physical and social impacts considering both direct costs and systemic market effects like those on international competitiveness, on resources values, on trade and capital flows. These last will be accounted for by a computable general equilibrium model developed by FEEM on purpose. The analysis is focussed on the Mediterranean region which is represented with a country detail, but the feedback on the world economic systems will be considered as well.