Climate Change Adaptation Measures Toolbox

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This page provides a comprehensive and easy to use toolbox of possible adaptation measures. Please select one or more of the group filters below to obtain detailed information on the measures of interest.

Please find more information in the ICPDR Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change.

Awareness raising, training and education of the general public

  • Establishment of community self-protection teams promoting self-reliance among residents and businesses to minimize the risk to personal safety and property damage during a flood events

  • Carrying out public awareness and information in order to encourage citizens to behave in suitable ways before, during and after the passage of the floods and to take their own precautionary

  • Education and awareness raising

  • Emergency planning and training

  • Raising public awareness of water-saving behaviour

  • Rising public awareness for forest benefits and the ways of their protection, on climate change impacts and possible adaptation measures

  • Awareness raising and support of strong public education and training programmes, which will require major investments in monitoring, research, technology transfer and education

Biodiversity

  • Reduction of biotic and abiotic disturbances through strengthening adaptive capacity of forests

  • Measures supporting biodiversity, ecological stability and community service of the forest

  • Encourage the diversification of forest stands by favouring autochthonous species that are ecologically resistant, convert forests from single-species stands into locally adapted mixed stands that face smaller risks