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In the 3rd Millennium, Climate Change (CC) constitutes a huge, multidimensional and largely impacting challenge for society as a whole, rating at the top of the global policy agenda. It is strongly associated with vulnerability of various types of regions and their capacity to cope with predicted but also largely unknown or not yet fully assessed CC repercussions. Insular territories, in this respect, despite their quite small contribution to CO2 emissions, seem to be cruelly affected by CC impacts in the years to come. This holds especially true for Mediterranean insular territories, since Mediterranean as a whole constitutes a CC hot spot in the global scenery. Coping with the ominous CC impacts on the spatial capital and socio-economic structure of Mediterranean islands implies the deployment and implementation of comprehensive mitigation and proactive adaptation pathways. The latter is the focus of this paper, attempting to: highlight the contribution of contemporary planning approaches in support of proactive strategic planning for setting up CC adaptation plans; and critically comment on methodological aspects for CC adaptation and related deficits in case of two distinct Greek insular territories – Regions of Ionian and Northern Aegean islands – in order for more robust approaches to emerge to the benefit of addressing CC vulnerabilities in such fragile territorial systems.
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Theodora, Y., Stratigea, A. (2021). Climate Change and Strategic Adaptation Planning in Mediterranean Insular Territories: Gathering Methodological Insights from Greek Experiences. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2021. ICCSA 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12958. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87016-4_8
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