A consistent set of socioeconomic dimensions for the CCRA3 Evidence Report research projects

The second CCRA (CCRA2) was published in 2017 and was supported by a comprehensive Evidence Report from the Adaptation Sub-Committee (ASC). Defra and the devolved administrations are in the process of drafting updated national adaptation programmes in response to the risks and opportunities set out in the report.

The third CCRA will be published by the government in January 2022, and Defra have asked the ASC to produce an accompanying Evidence Report by summer 2021.To inform this Evidence Report the ASC are commissioning six research projects, funded by Defra, the devolved administrations and the research councils (NERC, ESRC and EPSRC). The ASC has been engaging with relevant stakeholders (e.g. researchers, funders, academies) with a view of addressing key evidence gaps from the CCRA2 report on a variety of timescales. The scientific literature is also being reviewed to identify work that may already exist in these areas.

This research project will look to collate and justify a series of socioeconomic dimensions that will feed into the CCRA3 research projects, analysis and chapters. The benefit of producing these consistent dimensions outside of the individual projects is that the dimensions will be consistent across the overall CCRA3 Evidence Report. ** See Specification for more detail **