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.
Forest management
Improvement of forest management in high altitudes and better management of protective mountain forests
Foster water-efficient technologies and practices and the emergence of a water-saving culture
Implement modern water saving irrigation devices and adapted cultivation techniques in agriculture and forestry to be prepared for water shortages
Further investment and provision of financial aid
Further investments in flood defence
Harmonization of guidelines
Development of a climate policy of nature conservation and the harmonisation of this with those of the forestry, agriculture, power generation and water management
Hydraulic engineering
Determination of the need for widening and deepening riverbeds and their additional cleaning
Construction and modification of dams and accumulation reservoirs for hydropower generation, agriculture, drinking water, tourism, fish-farming, flood control, irrigation, navigation etc.
Icebreaking fleet as a cross boundary institution
Icebreaking fleet as a cross boundary institution
Implement technological solutions for low flow/drought
Apply turbines that use lower nominal power to reduce the impact of low water supply on hydropower plants
Establish emergency water connections for power plants in case cooling with river water becomes impossible due to summer drought
Implementation of the FD
Implementation of the Floods Directive including the impacts of climate change on the management of floods arising from surface waters and in coastal areas; the six-yearly risk analyses, hazard/risk maps and flood management plans, are regularly adapted to take account of the latest state of knowledge
