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
Climate adaptation plan - Esbjerg Municipality

The climate adaptation plan outlines the challenges the municipality faces because of the expect changes in the future climate.

2014 Policy and management Policy report Danish Denmark
Long-term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development

Description of a participatory integrated assessment process to develop climate change adaptation solutions for coastal development

2009 Best practice, Policy and management Scientific report English Germany
CPSL 2nd Report

The CPSL 2 report contains an analysis of the following instruments and measures that might contribute to sustainable coastal defence strategies for the Wadden Sea: spatial planning, sand…

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2005 Best practice, Policy and management Natural dynamics Policy report English
Climate adaptation plan - Varde Municipality

The climate adaptation plan outlines the challenges the municipality faces beause of the expetctet changes in the future climate.

2015 Policy and management Policy report Danish Denmark
Ecosystem-based coastal defence in the face of global change

The risk of flood disasters is increasing for many coastal societies owing to global and regional changes in climate conditions, sea-level rise, land subsidence and sediment supply. At the same…

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2013 Communication and education Scientific report English Other
A new sediment budget for The Netherlands: the effect of 15 years of nourishing (1991 - 2005)

Newest sediment budget analysis for dutch coast, including Waddenislans/sea

2015 Monitoring and assessment Long-term approach Project English Netherlands, Wadden Sea
Bar Analysis - Husby Klit to Houvig

Analysis of the influence of bar nourishment on bar development and bar migration

2012 Monitoring and assessment Scientific report English Denmark
Life Dunes. Report on six years of dune restoration in the Netherlands.

Project report. The Netherlands has major, international responsibility when it comes to preserving the dunes. The country is a stepping stone in the coastal dune zone that runs from northern…

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2012 Best practice Project English Netherlands
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
Metode til fremskrivning af oversvømmelsesomfang ved stormflod

Method for simulating the extent of flooding as a result of future storm surge events

2013 Monitoring and assessment Scientific report Danish Denmark
Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Managed Realignment and Regulated Tidal Exchange in the UK

In certain coastal and estuarine locations, the best and most sustainable way to enhance flood protection is to realign the primary sea defences in a landward direction. This typically involves…

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2011 Best practice, Policy and management, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education Scientific report English Germany, Lower Saxony
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
Guidelines for klimatilpasning

Guidelines for climate adaptation in coastal areas

2012 Policy and management, Communication and education Project Danish Denmark
Sediment budget and morphological development of the Dutch Wadden Sea: impact of accelerated sea-level rise and subsidence until 2100

Article by Wang, Z., Elias, E., Van der Spek, A., & Lodder, Q. (2018). Sediment budget and morphological development of the Dutch Wadden Sea: Impact of accelerated sea-level rise and…

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2018 Monitoring and assessment Scientific report English Netherlands, Wadden Sea
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
Risicokaart (risk maps)

Website showing risks in the Netherlands, amongs others Flood Risk (based on EU-Flood-risk data

Communication and education Long-term approach Map Dutch Netherlands
Kystfodring og sandressourcer

Resources are limited in the sense that they are not renewable. Therefore it is important that the raw materials are used in a socially, appropriately way.

2013 Policy and management, Monitoring and assessment Scientific report Danish Denmark
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
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
Options for dynamic coastal management. A guide for managers.

Deltares report. Annual sand nourishment operations maintain the coast line and supplement the coastal foundation so that it can match sea-level rise. In practice, the dunes are the least active…

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2013 Policy and management Policy report English Netherlands