1. European Commission Research & Innovation
InfoDay 2012
Environment calls
European Commission
Research & Innovation
ACAPULCO
Action for Climate Adaptation Policies drawing Upon Local Contexts and Organizations
Sébastien Hardy
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
GRED, University of Montpellier 3
June, 17th 2011

2. PI: Sébastien Hardy (PhD in Geography)
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) / University of Montpellier 3
Academic institution
Research Unit: GRED (Governance, Risk, Environment and Development) - Social Sciences Department
Phone: +33 (0)
Website: and

3. ACAPULCO project Objectives:
Topic: ENV Strategies, costs and impacts of adaptation to climate change
ACAPULCO project Objectives:
- Understanding the gaps between policies related with Climate Change adaptation, their implementation, cost and acceptance
Using the identified knowledge of local practices, to suggest and develop vulnerability reduction tools and technologies
Set up a participative model of prospective management of the risks applicable to different scales.

4. Additional partner(s) requirement
Existing partnership
Academic partners:
Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios superiores en Antropologia Social (Mexico)
Wageningen (Nederland)
Helsinki (Finland)
Politecnico di Milano (Italia)
Montpellier 3 (France)
Stakeholders
Development Workshop (NGO)
Municipalities
Additional partner(s) requirement
Climate Change prediction and monitoring
Economical impacts

5. Ours skills
- Experiences in risk analysis
- Assessment in knowledge of local capacities and resilience
Ours topics
- Risk
- Vulnerability
- Adaptation policies
- Social answers to Climate Change