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
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
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
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
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
CLIWAT - Climate and Water

The project focuses on determining the effects of climate change on groundwater systems and through this on surface water and water supply. Furthermore, challenges and solutions for engineering…

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2011 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
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
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
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
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
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
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
Climate Proof Areas

The district of Wesermarsch has been chosen as a project area in the European Climate Proof Areas- project (CPA).  The rural hinterland concept is a unique initiative which draws up intelligent…

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2011 finished Best practice, Policy and management Website English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
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