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      By completing this survey, you will be contributing to an important step in the development of the research agenda of the Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA: www.provia-climatechange.org).This survey asks for your scoring of 54 research topics in vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation (VIA) to advance meeting climate change challenges. The 54 research topics are grouped by 3 sections, each of which consists of 4-5 themes. The three sections are: 1)Cross-Cutting Research; 2) Making VIA research more Rigorous, Robust and Applications Driven; and, 3) New Architecture for Regional and Sectoral Analysis.The survey is part of an international review of research needs, and is intended to be the basis of a set of priorities that can help to guide adaptation efforts over the next few years. It will be delivered to the UN in May 2012 for presentation at the Rio+20 conference in June 2012.The 54 priority research topics presented here were selected by the PROVIA Scientific Steering Committee, drawing on their view of research needs. You can find the full Draft PROVIA Research Agenda here and additional background information about the survey here.The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. If you like to take more time to complete it, please note that the content will not be lost if you keep your browser open.Tags:                adaptationradar            