Promises and pitfalls of climate adaptation tools across the Mediterranean
COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT, cilt.1, sa.1, ss.1-36, 2026 (SCI-Expanded, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 1 Sayı: 1
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1038/s43247-026-03795-3
- Dergi Adı: COMMUNICATIONS EARTH & ENVIRONMENT
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Natural Science Collection (ProQuest), Scopus, Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Geobase, Directory of Open Access Journals
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-36
- Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Aristeidis Koutroulis1,*, Elisa Savelli2,*, Milica Tosic 3 , Irida Lazic 3 , Alex Fekete 4 , Thora Tenbrink 5 , Robert Stojanov 6 , Maciej Tankiewicz 7 , Filomena Pietrapertosa 8 , Monica Salvia 8 , Sandra Ricart 9 , Saioa Zorita10 , Simon N Gosling11, Elanur Adar Yazar12, Sorin Anghel13, Joan Ballester14, Michael Barton15, Jovana Bezdan16, Atila Bezdan16, Riccardo Biella17,18, Carolina Cantone19, Patricia Coll20, Kenan Dalkılıç21 , Zahide Erdoğa n 22, Muharrem Hilmi Erkoç23, Marianela Fader24, Nicolas Pardo Garcia25, Elias Giannakis26 , Fatma Handan Giray27, Manolis Grillakis 1 , Asli Pelin Gurgun28, Assaf Hochman29, Ziya İnce30, Katie Johnson31, József Kádár32, Zahra Kalantari33, Rovshan Karimov34, Emine Keles Ozgenc35, Bijan Khazai36 , Silvia Kohnovà37, Peter Kumer38, Emel Zeray Öztürk39, Christian Pagé40, Niki Paisi41, Yunus Pamukoglu42 , Kalliopi -Mikaela Papa 1 , Ilias Pechlivanidis19, Angela Pilogallo 8 , Zorica Popović43, Amir Rezvani33, Dritan Rustja44, Meryem Tanarhte45, Athanasios Tsilimigkras 1 , Liliana Velea46, Petar Vranić47, George Zittis41 , Samira Khodayar48
Abstract Although tools for climate change adaptation have proliferated, there is relatively little evidence about who they are intended to serve and how well they are suited to respond to decision contexts. We synthesized an inventory of 122 tools and found that around 73% of these are relevant to adaptation in the Mediterranean. We then examined who they are designed for, what they support, and how well they are suited to respond to decision contexts. We argue that access is not the main challenge, but alignment is. The results show that tools operate in isolation, often bound to administrative rather than physical boundaries, and provide limited guidance for choosing appropriate applications. Multilingual support and pathways to integrate local data are uneven. We outline actionable directions to improve this developing ecosystem, including linking tools to each other and to planning processes, make assumptions explicit, and involving anticipated users in the design process. These steps can turn a large and growing supply of tools into a more coherent, context -aware, and usable resource for adaptation and planning across the Mediterranean.