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.
| Title | Body | Year | Period | Implementation | Principles | Document type | Language | Area | Weblinks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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... Read more |
2011 | Best practice, Policy and management, Communication and education | Scientific report | English | Link | |||
| 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,... Read more |
2015 | Communication and education | Scientific report | German | Link | |||
| 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 | Link | |
| 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... Read more |
2012 | ongoing | Policy and management, Communication and education | Website | German | Germany | Link | |
| 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... Read more |
2015 | finished | Best practice, Communication and education | Website | German | Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea | Link | |
| 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 | Link | |
| "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 | Link | |
| 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... Read more |
2004 | finished | Best practice, Policy and management | Project | German | Germany, Lower Saxony | ||
| Project Data Base at BfN (Federal Agency for Nature Conservation) | ongoing | Best practice, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education | Website | German | Germany | ||||
| 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... Read more |
2009 | finished | Best practice, Monitoring and assessment | Website | German | Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea | Link | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | Link | |
| 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 | Link | |
| HoRisk - Flood Risk Management for the Coastal Area | 2012 | finished | Best practice, Policy and management | Project | German | Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein | Link | ||
| Living Coast Lab |
Sedimentation on Halligen in the Schelswig-Hostein Wadden Sea |
2019 | ongoing | Best practice | Project | German | Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea | Link | |
| 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... Read more |
2008 | ongoing | Monitoring and assessment | Website | German | Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein | Link, Link | |
| 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;... Read more |
2011 | finished | Best practice, Monitoring and assessment | Project | German | Germany, Lower Saxony | ||
| SALTSA |
Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers |
2017 | ongoing | Best practice | Project | German | Germany, Lower Saxony | Link | |
| 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... Read more |
2010 | finished | Best practice, Communication and education | Project | German | Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein | ||
| 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 |
