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.

Development of green infrastructure in order to connect different bio-geographic regions and habitats and to improve migration options for species

  • designing a national environmental network map

  • increase of the landscape connectivity: elimination of barrier effect of roads and railways, elimination of barrier on water streams

Development of new robust methods

  • Establishment / enhancement of early warning systems of droughts and other extreme climate episodes of importance to agriculture

  • Development and application of indicators in agro-climate and agro-ecological zoning to connect indicator analysis to modelling techniques in order to create model based indicators

Development of Strategies and Plans

  • Contingency, confinement and possibly evacuation plans of trans-national flood areas (floodplain basins) should be worked out jointly by the interested countries

  • Preparation of working plans for the sub-basins

  • Establishment of incorporated concepts for the protection of torrents in order to assess the risk of flood and define precautions

  • Integration of preventive flood protection in regional planning

Dialogue, participation, information exchange, social networking

  • Better communication among institutions

  • Collaborative and partnership strengthening, building of networks