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.

Adapting waterway/navigation management

  • Providing a balanced framework for fair competition among ports

  • Definition of navigation fairway conditions according to ecological needs

  • Promotion of transport on interior waterways will enhance the competitiveness of river transport relative to other modes

  • Integrated sediment management planning could aim to offset any potential new dredging requirements by identifying measures, such as buffer strips, which aim to prevent additional sediment (and associated nutrients, pesticides, etc.) entering the watercourse

Adjustment of measures

  • Updating flood design values

Administration

  • Adaptation of the funding opportunity for agricultural management systems, which make synergy effects between the protection of nature, the water management system (flood protection, establish WRRL) and the adaptation measures to cc possible

  • Updating national plans for forest fire prevention and protection, improvement of the control of activities against forest fires

  • Increasing prevention of forest fires through early warning systems and improvement of the forest fire protection system

  • Restrictions on developing activities in water shortage areas

  • Strengthen the role of local communities in sustainable forest management