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.

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