Climate Change Adaptation Measures Toolbox
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.
Changes in agricultural practices
Implementation of novel crop production technologies and breeding with regard to adaptation to climate change, crop nutrient balances, resistance properties and quality characteristics
Changing crops varieties
Growing more resistant crop varieties to reduce dependence on irrigation
Growing crops which withstand drought
Using new cultivars and hybrids that adapt better to water deficit
Changing from irrigated to non-irrigated crops
Altering inputs, varieties and species for increased resistance to heat shock and drought, flooding and salinization
Changing land use and adaptation of land use management
Replacement or complementation of the prevailing intensive agriculture dependent on flood levees and drainage in order to balance hydrological processes
Enabling natural ecosystems to return to their former territories through the rehabilitation of naturally flooded areas
Ensuring a coordinated approach in land-use planning (through this action synergy effects between river basin management and flood risk management could be used)
Afforestation in upper basin areas and on broad floodplains along the river to increase the water retention capacity of the river basin