European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps Abarca Álvarez, Francisco Javier Navarro-Ligero, Miguel Lorenzo Valenzuela Montes, Luis Miguel Campos Sánchez, Francisco Sergio European Policies Climate Change Profiles Pattern Artificial intelligence Self-Organizing Maps Sustainability Urban planning Featured Application: The methodology developed in this research has direct application in understanding European initiatives and policies for adaptation to climate change through the identification of differentiated strategic adaptation frameworks. The European Union (EU) has assigned municipal governments a key role in the transformations needed to achieve its climate and energy objectives. One of the main initiatives of the EU has been the “The Covenant of Mayors”, launched in 2008, with impacts beyond Europe due to integration with the “Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy”. This research focuses on local measures to adapt to climate change, verifying their differences between themselves, and aims to identify and characterize patterns in the different adaptation strategies examined. Further aims are (i) the collection of good practices, framed in the Mayors Adapt initiative, managing multidimensional data from the context and from its adaptation proposals; (ii) the classification of strategies in profiles and patterns using artificial neural networks based on the previous variables; (iii) the characterization and comparison of such profiles. The results substantiate the existence of several well-differentiated approaches, connected with their geographical context, vulnerability and politics. These results provide valuable information for its interpretation and for the planning of climate change adaptation actions, highlighting the value of the creation of networks of institutional collaboration targeted at each strategic framework. 2019-10-29T11:57:51Z 2019-10-29T11:57:51Z 2019-09-13 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Abarca-Alvarez, F.J.; Navarro-Ligero, M.L.; Valenzuela-Montes, L.M.; Campos-Sánchez, F.S. European Strategies for Adaptation to Climate Change with the Mayors Adapt Initiative by Self-Organizing Maps. Appl. Sci. 2019, 9, 3859. [doi:10.3390/app9183859] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/57586 10.3390/app9183859 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España MDPI