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 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
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
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
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
Biogeochemistry of Tidal Flats

Biogeochemical transformations on water-column-suspended particles, at the sediment-water interface and in the sediments are studied Considering the hydrodynamic conditions, the influence of the…

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2009 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
Project Data Base at BfN (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation) ongoing Best practice, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education Website German Germany
Governmental Commission on Climate Protection in Lower Saxony

structure of an adaptation strategy 2010; policy on climate protection 2010

2008 finished Policy and management, Communication and education Policy report German Germany, Lower Saxony
ZukunftHallig

Development of sustainable strategies and measures to protect the Halligen and East-Frisian Islands under climate change

2014 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein
Living Coast Lab

Sedimentation on Halligen in the Schelswig-Hostein Wadden Sea

2019 ongoing Best practice Project German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
German Climate Adaptation Strategy

On 17 December 2008 the Federal Cabinet adopted the German Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change, creating  a framework for adapting to the impacts of climate change in Germany. It primarily…

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2008 ongoing Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Jade Bay Project

Documentation and analysis of historical changes induced by natural processes and human influences: Geologic, geophysical, cultural-historical and benthic-ecological development of the Jade Bay;…

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2011 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
TIDE - Tidal River Development

Climate Change and European estuaries

2013 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education Website English Netherlands, Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Ten years of saltmarsh restoration in noard-fryslân Bûtendyks

The nature conservation organisation, It Fryske Gea, is committed to preserving the natural values of this area just outside the seawall and so, in 2001, initiated a trial to restore saltmarshes…

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2001-2014 Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Data report English Netherlands
ComCoast

Innovations in coastal protection along the southern North Sea coast. See also: Ahlhorn, F. (2009): Long-term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development - Multifunctional Coastal Protection Zones,…

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2004 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Other
Ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation and mitigation – good practice examples and lessons learned in Europe

This report of the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BFN) documents and analyses good practice examples of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change mitigation and adaptation in…

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2011 Best practice, Policy and management, Communication and education Scientific report English