Abstract Climate change is supposed to exacerbate conflicts arising from resource scarcity and contrasting objectives. Some European authors highlighted already the need to look at conflicting interests when elaborating and applying adaptation and mitigation strategies. This study analysed the level of consideration of these emerging topics arising through increased competition of resources, contrasting interests, climate change adaptation as well as mitigation measures for Austria and Southern Germany in detail. Furthermore, it surveyed the application of possible approaches for conflict prevention and mitigation in an international perspective and additionally examined the particular role of SEA as one of the instruments to cope with conflicts related to climate change. The results express the strong need to look at emerging conflicts in cross-sectoral and sectoral adaptation early enough and a strategic perspective. Based on the content analysis of the Austrian and German adaptation and mitigation documents, expert interviews as well as the international literature review, a rather low consideration of these emerging topics as well as approaches to cope with them became evident. In response to these deficiencies, the paper introduces a first framework to identify and tackle emerging and exacerbated conflicts related to climate change. This novel framework is internationally applicable. In the final step of the framework approaches to prevent and minimize conflicts are the key topic. Among these approaches, SEA could take a leading role in case mandatory planning instruments cover the topics related to potential or existing exacerbated fields of conflicts. Overall a mix of formal and informal instruments and a more cross-sectoral perspective seems necessary. To this aim, the paper introduces four main guiding principles to consider and minimize up-coming conflicting topics.

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应对与气候变化相关的冲突——识别和解决这些新兴主题的第一个框架

摘要 气候变化应该会加剧因资源稀缺和目标不同而引起的冲突。一些欧洲作者已经强调在制定和应用适应和缓解策略时需要考虑相互冲突的利益。本研究详细分析了由于资源竞争加剧、利益冲突、气候变化适应以及奥地利和德国南部的缓解措施而产生的这些新兴主题的考虑水平。此外，它还调查了国际视角下预防和缓解冲突的可能方法的应用，并进一步研究了策略性环境评估作为应对气候变化相关冲突的工具之一的特殊作用。结果表明，迫切需要尽早从战略角度审视跨部门和部门适应中出现的冲突。根据对奥地利和德国适应和缓解文件的内容分析、专家访谈以及国际文献综述，对这些新兴主题以及应对它们的方法的考虑相当少。针对这些缺陷，本文引入了第一个框架来识别和解决与气候变化相关的新出现和加剧的冲突。这个新颖的框架是国际适用的。在框架的最后一步，预防和最小化冲突的方法是关键主题。在这些方法中，如果强制性规划工具涵盖与潜在或现有冲突加剧领域相关的主题，SEA 可以发挥主导作用。总体而言，似乎有必要将正式和非正式工具以及更加跨部门的视角相结合。为此，本文介绍了四个主要指导原则，以考虑和尽量减少即将出现的冲突主题。