Abstract
In this study, the authors tried to identify the challenges and needs that local governments are facing in developing climate change adaptation strategies by applying text mining to the minutes of the workshop to promote co-design by collaboration among local governments' officials, scientists of climate models and impact assessment and scientists in local governments. The results demonstrate as follows; i) the local governments' officials have six challenges such as how to set goals, and how to utilize the results of long-term projections for examining short-term administrative plans. ii) The local governments' officials have four needs such as information easy to understand for citizens and the related departments' officials, and a scheme in which the updated results of projections are obtained continuously.
