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
SafeCoast - Keeping our feet dry in the North Sea region

Safecoast was about gaining and sharing knowledge and information on coastal flood and erosion risk management between coastal management authorities in five North Sea countries: Denmark, Germany…

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2008 fnished Best practice, Policy and management Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
KFKI Project data base

Data base of coastal engineering projects funded by Germany

ongoing Best practice, Communication and education Website German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Other
SAHALL

Investigation of ways to optimize the sedimentation on the Halligen under stronger sea level rise

2012 finished Best practice Website German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
Norddeutscher Klimaatlas

Regional scenarios, interactive online maps, different spatial and temporal scales

2009 ongoing Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
A-Küst @ KLIFF

Changes in the coastal climate - evaluation of alternative strategies in coastal protection:  In 7 sub-projects, the research area ‘A- KŰST’ will investigate at a realistic scale, both the loads…

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2013 fnished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
UFORDAT

Data base for German research projects linked to the environment

ongoing Communication and education Website German Germany, Other
KLIWAS - Impacts of climate change on waterways and navigation

…to analyse the potential consequences of climate change for navigation on inland and coastal waterways and to formulate appropriate strategies for adaptation to the changed environmental…

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2013 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Other
KLIMZUG - NordWest 2050

Prospects for Climate-Adapted Innovation Processes in the Model Region Bremen-Oldenburg in North Western Germany

2014 finished Best practice Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
Master Plan Coastal Protection (Islands)

Strategic plan for coastal protection ta the East Frisian islands.

2011 ongoing Policy and management Policy report German Germany, Lower Saxony
Master Plan Coastal Protection (Main Land)

Strategic plan for coastal protection at the main land.

2007 ongoing Policy and management Policy report German Germany, Lower Saxony
"Speichern statt pumpen" - Restoring instead of pumping

Integrated drainage management at the Lower Saxonian coast

2010 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
KLEVER

Drainage management under a changing climate in the Lower Saxonian coastal region.

2015 ongoing Best practice, Communication and education Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
HoRisk - Flood Risk Management for the Coastal Area 2012 finished Best practice, Policy and management Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
SALTSA

Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers

2017 ongoing Best practice Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
Climate Change and the Wadden Sea (Michael-Otto-Foundation)

The effects of climate change on the German Waddensea (coastal mudflats) and the entire Waddensea region are the central focus of the ‘Waddensea Dialogue’. On the Foundation’s invitation, a panel…

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2010 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
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
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
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
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