Sustainable decisions on the agenda – a decision support tool and its application on climate-change adaptation

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Figure 1. The resulting process as a decision process support tool (from Andersson-Sköld et al. 2011).

Figure 2. Lake Vänern and the Swedish parts of the Göta River catchment area (modified from Lawrence et al. 2011).

Table 1. Impact indicators resulting from the case study-based test application of the decision process tool.

Impact category	Impact indicator	Environmental objectives (Miljömålsrådet 2008)	LCA category
Health and environment	Global warming (release of greenhouse gases, land use or land-changes that contribute to, or reduce, global warming)	Reduced climate impact	Green-house gas emission
	Impacts on air quality both in the local setting and regional scale impacts (e.g. acidification, ground level ozone)	Clean air	Acidification, tropospheric ozone, bioaccumulative air emissions
		A protective ozone layer	Particulates, odour
		Zero eutrophication natural acidification	Toxic gases
	Ecologic status in water and water courses	Good quality of groundwater	Drinking water quality
		Flourishing coastal areas and archipelagos	Biodiversity
	Category in agreement with the Water Framework Directive (2000/60/EC), including also impacts on fisheries, marine and limnological properties of high conservation value	Flourishing lakes and streams	Ecosystems, eutrophication through leakage
Resources	Land resources (use of land, housing, pollution load, biodiversity, ecosystems, impacts on terrestrial objects of high conservation value)	A good built environment (city landscape)	Biodiversity
		Thriving wetlands	Ecosystems
		A varied agricultural landscape
		Sustainable forests and a magnificent mountain landscape
	Energy (energy consumption). Based on the overall national goal with the aim to reduce the consumption of energy and other resources (Miljömålsrådet 2008)		Energy
	Raw materials (raw material acquisition)	Among other resources included in the national goal are raw materials such as oil, minerals, wood and water	Resource in processes and products (from cradle to grave): minerals, metals, oil, water, wood, etc.
Social and economic	Well-being/perceived welfare	A good built environment
	Direct costs (costs for possible impacts, investment costs, cost for maintenance and management)
	Socio-economic aspects (infrastructure, cultural, attraction for new inhabitants, business activity, jobs, recreation)
Flexibility	(How flexible and adaptive the measures are for possible changed circumstances)
Target achievement	The target shall be defined among the participants in the preparatory step of the process
Other	Risk reduction, soil quality separated form land-use recourses

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Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for the community action in the field of water policy (the EU Water Framework Directive).

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