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.

Use of soil-fertility maintaining and soil-water-saving techniques

  • Combination or reduction of a number of field operations in order to prevent or lessen unfavourable soil conditions

  • Implement site specific precision methods

  • Protection of natural soil functions

  • Prevention of damage (erosion) and conservation

Water conservation

  • Integrated management of river basins involving co-ordinated management of the protection and use of all water bodies in a river basin with the aim to ensure that water bodies remain in a healthy state

  • Protection plan: Each water resource needs to be addressed individually, and therefore, an individual strategy plan for the management and exploitation, as well as a protection plan, needs to be adopted for each one of them.

  • Expansion of water conservation areas

  • Minimize the pollution of water resources by discharges of untreated or insufficiently treated municipal waste water

  • Water protection against pollution and depletion caused by anthropogenic activities (both groundwater and surface water)

  • Prevention of accidental pollution during floods affecting the storage facilities of dangerous substances