Publications

May 24, 2023

How do uncertainties impact the implementation of nature-based solutions for coastal adaptation?

Nature Based Solutions (NbS) are seen as a promising venue for coastal adaptation to climate change. Combining natural dynamics with technical solutions, NbS can be driven by unpredictable natural dynamics, unanticipated surprises, and changing external conditions. And as such, they involve fundamentally different uncertainties.
June 21, 2021

Is technical knowledge enough to move adaptation beyond its current impasse? Evidence says that it is not.

In a new collaborative paper led by Marta Olazabal and published in One Earth, the authors argue that historically marginalized and subaltern forms of local knowledge must be considered in combination with technocratic top-down approaches to climate knowledge production.
May 20, 2021

BC3 participa en la redacción del informe “Fundamentos y propuestas para una Estrategia Nacional de Largo Plazo”

Las investigadoras de BC3 Basque Centre for Climate Change - Klima Aldaketa Ikergai, Aline Chiabai, y Marta Olazabal, han participado respectivamente en los ejes de Cambio Climático y de Urbanización, para la redacción del informe "Fundamentos y propuestas para una Estrategia Nacional de Largo Plazo"
May 17, 2021

A new publication on One Earth has found evidence that Nature-based Solutions can contribute to transformative change towards sustainable trajectories

The global environmental crisis calls for transformative approaches to sustainability. Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have great resonance in science and practice, but their ability to bring about transformative change has not been assessed. A new publication in One Earth provides evidence that NbS can contribute to transformative change towards sustainable trajectories.
February 15, 2021

Forest Carbon Credits: Separating the “good” from the merely “good enough”

Forest Carbon Credits: Separating the “good” from the merely “good enough” new discussion paper published at WWF by Naikoa Aguilar-Amuchastegui (Senior Director Forest Carbon Science, WWD-US), Jason M. Funk (Principal & Funder at Land Use & Climate Knowledge Initiative) and María José Sanz (BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change Director).
December 7, 2020

Post-2020 biodiversity targets need to embrace climate change

Recent assessment reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) have highlighted the risks to humanity arising from the unsustainable use of natural resources.
October 26, 2020

Transformative Adaptation in Cities

Cities are projected to hold two-thirds of the world’s population by 2050 under a period of intensifying climate change. Ensuring sustainable, climate-resilient, and equitable cities will require moving beyond incremental adaptation to transformative adaptation. What does transformative adaptation mean for cities, and how can it be achieved, particularly in cities with low adaptive capacity?
September 15, 2020

Milking once a day in small ruminants. State of the art

The latest article by Elena Galán de Castillo, researcher at the multidisciplinary centre BC3 - Basque Centre for Climate Change, published in Mundo Ganadero summarizes the results and consequences on the effects of moving from two milkings per day to one in small ruminants
August 6, 2020

Journal Article: Holm oak decline and mortality exacerbate drought effects on soil biogeochemical cycling and soil microbial communities across a climatic gradient

The extent to which the increasingly frequent episodes of drought-induced tree decline and mortality could alter key soil biogeochemical cycles is unclear. Understanding this connection between tree decline and mortality and soils is important because forested ecosystems serve as important long-term sinks for carbon (C) and essential nutrients (e.g., nitrogen and phosphorus).
June 1, 2020

BC3 article: Effects of historical land-use change in the Mediterranean environment

During the Holocene (last ~11,700 years), societies have continuously modified the landscape of the Mediterranean Basin through changes in land-use, exerting extraordinary pressures onto the environment and adding variability to the climate. Despite its importance to current land management, knowledge of how past land-use practices have impacted the regional climate of the Basin remains largely in the scientific sphere.