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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Titel Body Year Period Implementation Principles Document type Language Area Weblinks
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
Kortlægning af klimaforandringer

The purpose of this report is to map climate change impacts and opportunities for Denmark, while focusing on the areas where Denmark has the most significant challenges in relation to climate…

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2012 Policy and management Policy report Danish Denmark
Kystbeskyttelsesstrateg i- en strategisk indsats for smukkere kyster / The National Coastal Protection Strategy

Coastal protection strategy for the Danish coasts

2011 Policy and management, Communication and education Policy report Danish Denmark
Climate adaptation plan - Fanø 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
Vi beskytter Vestkysten / Wir schützen die Westküste

Information regarding the coastal nourishment on the Danish West Coast

2015 Communication and education Other Danish Denmark
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
Climate adaptation plan - Tønder 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
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
"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
BLAST

Address the needs of marine spatial planning, environmental protection, socio-economic development, risk management and mitigation, by delivering harmonised land and sea geographic data sets

2012 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
CLAMER

European 7th Framework Programme project about climate change impacts on the marine environment ,the research results and public perception of marine climate change. 19 marine research institutes…

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2011 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project English Netherlands
MALEK - Effects of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems

Protected species and habitats in the German Baltic Sea and in the North Sea and their sensitivities against anthropogenic impacts and climate change

2012 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project English Germany
HoRisk - Flood Risk Management for the Coastal Area 2012 finished Best practice, Policy and management Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Protected Areas in Germany under Global Change - Risks and Policy Options: Climate Change in Protected Areas

At this interactive page (in German) climate change scenarios are visible for more than 4000 protected areas (including the Wadden Sea National Parks).

2009 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Germany
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
COADAPT

Develop technical and shoreline management tools to meet the additional threats that an increased sea level rise and changes in storm conditions impose on coastal areas

2013 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Denmark
NAWAK

Salt water intrusion in coastal aquifers (ground water bodies)

2017 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
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