The french vineyard in the face of climate change: Developing an adaptation strategy based on prospective scenarios

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La fabrique d’une stratégie nationale viti-vinicole d’adaptation au changement climatique

Using foresight exercise to design adaptation policy to climate change: The case of the French wine industry

Foresight studies are regularly conducted at sectoral or geographical scales, in order to help policy makers and economic actors to define their strategy of adaptation to climate change (CC). Some studies are rather “quick exercises”, in which a panel of experts is consulted to define the expected impacts of CC and to identify adaptation leviers for future policy. In other cases, a true foresight methodology is developed, leading to the building of scenarios based on : i) a systemic and participatory approach, ii) the definition of key variables, iii) the choice of assumptions and the coherent relations between these assumptions, the narrative description of scenarios. This participatory di…

Le vignoble français face au changement climatique : l'élaboration d’une stratégie d’adaptation à partir de scénarios de prospective

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