ANALYSIS ON UTILIZATION OF SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE IN CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION PLAN IN LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

Abstract

 This paper reports on nationwide trends on utilization of scientific evidence in environmental departments in local governments via analyzing database which we have built based on the administrative documents, interviewing and questionnaire.The main results demonstrate as follows; i) Collecting scientific evidence by their own budget is quite rare and it depends the governments’ subsidiary enterprise to some extent. ii) Scientific evidence which is more detailed in space and time scale is getting used more than ever and the tendency will be spurred on. iii) It is important for climate change adaptation local centers to undertake the roles of interpreting for scientific evidence and sharing knoledges of local staleholders and scentists.