Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform

This table shows best practices such as trilateral policy and management, best practices, monitoring and assessment and activities in communication and education in the framework of the Interreg project Building with Nature. The Wadden Sea Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform includes activity outputs (such as policy reports, scientific reports, projects etc.) and can be filtered by year, document type, implementation and area as well as downloaded as CSV-file.

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Title Body Year Period Implementation Principles Document type Language Area Weblinks
SALTSA

Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers

2017 ongoing Best practice Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
XtremRisK Extreme storm surges at open coasts and estuarine areas: Risk assessment and mitigation under climate change aspects

To investigate which extreme values of storm surge components will be physically possible under the present and future climate change conditions; storm surge scenarios for which the investigated…

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2012 finished Best practice Project German Germany
KLIFF- Climate impact and adaptation research in Lower Saxony sub-project: ‘IMPLAN’

Implementation of results from KLIFF in spatial planning in Lower Saxony. By evaluation of the possible consequences of climate change and establishment of an inventory of available instruments…

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2013 finished Best practice Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
NAWAK

Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers (ground water bodies)

2017 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
Klimaanpassung an weichen Küsten

Climate adaptation along soft coasts. Case studies from Europe und the U.S

2015 Best practice, Communication and education Natural dynamics, Integration, Long-term approach, Site specific approach Scientific report German Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
KLIMZUG-NORD Regional strategies concerning climate changes in the metropolitan area of Hamburg sub-project: ‘Estuary River Management’

Research the consequences of climate changes to urban areas, agricultural sites and the tidal riverbed of the Elbe within the city of Hamburg. A range of action plans are going to be recommended,…

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2014 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein
AMSeL – Mean Sea Level and Tidal Analysis at the German North Sea Coastline

Detection of mean sea level and analysis of tidal water levels along the German North Sea coast

2010 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Climate Protection Schleswig-Holstein

report on climate adaptation policy in Schleswig-Holstein

2009 ongoing Policy and management, Communication and education Policy report German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein
EasyGSH-DB

Investigation and development of products with hydrodynamic models (UnTRIM2 (3D), TELEMAC3D) for 20 years (1996-2015) within the German Bight. These products include:
Bathymetry (annually)…

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2017 ongoing Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, North Sea
Strategie für das Wattenmeer 2100

Schleswig-Holstein State Strategy for adaptation to climate change (coastal risk management and nature conservation) in the Wadden Sea

2015 Policy and management Natural dynamics, Integration, Flexibility, Long-term approach Policy report German Schleswig-Holstein
KLIMU - Climate Change and the river Weser 2000 finished Best practice, Policy and management Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
Kurswechsel Küste / Changing the coastal course

Book in German. Sea level rise is accelerating, threatening the sustainability of the four million people who live in the lowlands and on the islands of the German North Sea coast. This book,…

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2015 Communication and education Scientific report German
AufMod „Aufbau von integrierten Modellsystemen zur Analyse der langfristigen Morphodynamik in der Deutschen Bucht"

Model-based analysis of long-term morphodynamic processes in the German Bight

2012 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Climate Action for Hamburg

The Hamburg Climate Action Policy comprises 10 fields of action, reflecting all areas of climate action policy. For each field of action, the Senate has set goals which are to be planned and…

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2012 ongoing Policy and management, Communication and education Website German Germany
COMTESS

Perform an inter- and transdisciplinary investigation of four land management scenarios, applied to a North Sea and a Baltic Sea coastal region in Germany. COMTESS will quantify and evaluate the…

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2015 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website German Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
KRIM - Climate Change and Preventive Risk and Coastal Protection Management

Analyses the consequences of an accelerated sea-level rise and intensified extreme incidents (formulated as climate scenarios for the year 2050) and of adaptation options for the natural and the…

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2004 finished Best practice, Policy and management Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
Wave attenuation over coastal salt marshes under storm surge conditions

Coastal communities around the world face an increasing risk from flooding as a result of rising sea level, increasing storminess and land subsidence. Salt marshes can act as natural buffer zones…

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2014 Communication and education Scientific report English
CLIWAT - Climate and Water

The project focuses on determining the effects of climate change on groundwater systems and through this on surface water and water supply. Furthermore, challenges and solutions for engineering…

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2011 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
Delta-programma 2016

Long term vision on flood risk protection and fresh water supply, annual progress on implementation of measures

2015 Policy and management Long-term approach Policy report English Netherlands, Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
UBA - KOMPASS ongoing Best practice, Policy and management, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education Website English Germany