There is a growing awareness and need for countries, communities, cities, sectors, and businesses to consider and adapt to physical and social challenges and opportunities beyond their boundaries.
The world is facing a number of complex global challenges. These ‘wicked problems’ include changes in the climate system as well as changes in any biophysical and human system such as urbanisation, deforestation, biodiversity loss and more recently the rise of pandemics.
The SARVA team is continually working on providing access to up to date data and information for South Africa on risk and vulnerability. Creating an enabling environment through improved data access will assist municipalities, government departments and sectors to respond to global change risks.
SARVA relies on data management infrastructure being by SAEON to support the publication, discovery, dissemination, and visualisation of global change data. Our open access data systems operate on the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR) data principles.