DEVELOPMENT OF ASSESSMENT METHOD ON CLIMATE CHANGE RISK FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS AND ANALYSIS OF THEIR NEEDS TO CLIMATE CHANGE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

 This paper introduce an assessment method for climate change risk for local officials with their subjective evaluation to some elements necessary for planning climate change adaptation, and clarify their needs of climate science and technologies and perception gaps among departments of local governments by applying the method to some local governments. The main results demonstrate as follows; i) the higher needs for scientific data is on climate change impact on irrigated rice cultivation, fruit cultivation, heat attack, natural forest, and mudflow disaster for shorter term and specific areas. ii) with the assessment method, visualized information of gaps and common points of departments are provided, and this is expected to be used in examining adaptation within cross-departmental organisation.