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• Organizational issues didnt talk about
  existing organizations identify these and not
  re-invent the wheel Identify across scales
  global, regional, local institutes
• Identify organizations with regard to function
  identify a discrete set to let the form follow
  the function standardizing impact and
  adaptation scenarios training, capacity
  building, new generation of scholars
• Common functions intercomparisons observations
  and models what are the possible proposals and
  relevant agencies
• What is the common purpose for IAV support
  decisionmaking? Also need to ensure scientific
  credibility. Need to communicate to outside.
  What does IAV as a community want to communicate?
  At the moment, centrally organized around IPCC.
  Self-organization suggests something beyond this.
  
• What are the organizational nucleii for IAV?
• What are the links to scenario development
  process related to intercomparisons can
  provide information for the management of
  uncertainty for decision makers
• Develop links to large international communities
  through international conferences (e.g.,
  Copenhagen, WCC3, etc).
• Need to identify and elucidate issues related to
  e.g., multiple stresses, etc and defining
  adaptation and what is the purpose of an
  adaptation analysis for building resilience,
  sustainable futures? Same for vulnerability
  vulnerable for whom, what time frame, what scale
  a template of framework for individual groups
  to map into.
• Social communities beginning to map into larger
  frameworks and meta-concepts.
• Priorities to development of network until the
  community can organize itself for collective
  action a necessary energy into network
  development, unlikely to be successful. A
  network needs a goal a good goal would be to
  organize a conference a conference around the
  organizational nucleii
• Martin and initiative with UNEP to provide a
  mean of organizational climate change research on
  impacts, adaptation, etc.

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• This group is moving towards an organizational
  network that is beyond academic what are the
  anchors for IAV consideration of a much
  different model than currently exists. Something
  appropriate for IAV than what the physical
  modeling communities have developed.
• There are already organic processes of networks
  who are gradually coalescing around a shared
  group of goals and priorities. E.g., a network
  around least developed countries that are
  generated from within the LDCs. More about
  linking the growing networks that can
  crystallize.
• This meeting is coming up with some
  organizational ideas that can be distributed to
  beginning network (50)
• This group IS centered about climate change and
  IPCC, need to tie into that strongly. Need a
  structure that both accommodates bottom-up and
  internationally relevant.
• What do we know about existing networks? The
  email list generated since Aspen, is a start.
• A start towards defining organizational nucleii
• Tims slide and Group Vs slide.
• On the one hand, IPCC and the other, cuommunity
  at large what are the connections to, say, WGI
  is there something that would be a pressing
  issue for AR5 that IAV can make an immediate
  contribution to WGI?
• Need a self-identification what are the needs?
  We dont have, at any scale, a systematic way to
  assemble available information what is a
  multi-model mean for food production, water
  availability, local scale climate a LOT of
  progress can be made for this community to move
  forward. This is one aspect, but to assess
  vulnerability additional paradigms are needed.
  This is Chris point for the people that are
  doing mitigation planning they need this kind
  of information.

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• Process and generation of knowledge for IAV as
  criteria for an Organizational Nucleii that
  cross scales from local, regional to global
• HOW DOES THIS FIT TOGETHER and/or PROVIDE A
  FRAMEWORK FOR AN IAV NETWORK?
• Impacts and adaptation assessment Harmonized
  multi-scale impact assessments model and tool
  development for assessments as well as those that
  do assessments also considers aggregation
  issues (e.g., emergent properties and non-linear
  issues)
• Investigation of risk uncertainty and decision
  making
• Storyline and scenario development, their
  application, communication (within the community)
  and distribution at a range of scales.
• Adaptation past, present and future
• Adaptive management, measuring and monitoring a
  research question
• Assessment of adaptation interventions
• Community based adaptation and sustainable
  livliehoods
• limits to adaptation
• Processes interacting with vulnerability
• Institutions and governance decisions,
  decision-making and decision support
• Demographic processes migration and mobility
• Intercomparison of vulnerability assessments
  what are the common frameworks?
• Political and economic processes
  (socio-political) in development pathways e.g.,
  failed states, non-states, stumbling states
• Costing and valuation monetary and non-monetary
  and social
• Observations of changes and historical
  human/environmental interactions instrumental,
  proxy, narrative Detection and attribution of
  impacts from anthropogenic causes Need for
  observatory applications historical,
  anthropological, cropping, etc
• INTEGRATION of impacts, adaptation and
  vulnerability
• Interactions with mitigation of climate change

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• Proposal Focus on three time scales
• Network Development
• Amsterdam
• AR5
• Long-term IAV
• A component of an implementation strategy to give
  the community an idea of how to proceed,
  including
• identification of user communities,
• working group II constituency what does WGII
  do, what are the strengths
• MEA, RA-gt joint activities and proposals to push
  the agenda forward
• 3-5 categories at a functional level
• Infrasctructures
• Training, capacity building
• Research and organizational agenda

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• What does IAV need organizational focii
• What are the things that this community does NOT
  have that are needed for a fundamental
  breakthrough?
• What does another community (e.g., IPCC) need
  from this community that it is not fundamentally
  getting? leads to (9) priority areas
• Mechanisms for implementation
• Broad community development
• International conference
• For IAV, what is a breakthrough? to xxxx
  adaptation to climate change
• What is the client for this workshop? If the
  clients for this workshop is IPCC, then the
  specific clients are the countries themselves
  should tie into e.g., Nairobi work program. Are
  we representing the research committee or IPCC,
  or??

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• Overarching Questions
• How much adaptation are we committed to (do we
  require) (from a national point of view frames
  IPCC as the client) Fits into an RCP/parallel
  process for storyline and scenario development
  framework more short term relevant to climate
  change and kinds of adaptation 6
• What are the likely climate impacts taking into
  account adaptation? What are the unavoidable
  impacts? What are the likely impacts for a range
  of scenarios? 8
• E.g., Impact studies have not been performed for
  a sufficient number of scenarios
• Adaptation needs to sit in the center of the
  process its not linear, but its
• What are the impacts when vulnerability is taken
  into account?
• Who is vulnerable where, when and who is
  capable? 6
• What are the interactions between mitigation and
  adaptation? Where do they overlap, feedback and
  where are they (are they?) mutually exclusive? 3

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• Charge to groups
• 1. Frame the question
• Pose research questions
• Instructions to other communities what we NEED
  from other groups
• Propose strategy for implementation with regard
  to proposals, interaction with other communities,
  etc.