Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform

This table shows best practices such as trilateral policy and management, best practices, monitoring and assessment and activities in communication and education in the framework of the Interreg project Building with Nature. The Wadden Sea Climate Change Adaptation Information Platform includes activity outputs (such as policy reports, scientific reports, projects etc.) and can be filtered by year, document type, implementation and area as well as downloaded as CSV-file.

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Title Body Year Period Implementation Principles Document type Language Area Weblinks
Jade Bay Project

Documentation and analysis of historical changes induced by natural processes and human influences: Geologic, geophysical, cultural-historical and benthic-ecological development of the Jade Bay;…

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2011 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project German Germany, Lower Saxony
SAHALL

Investigation of ways to optimize the sedimentation on the Halligen under stronger sea level rise

2012 finished Best practice Website German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
TIDE - Tidal River Development

Climate Change and European estuaries

2013 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment, Communication and education Website English Netherlands, Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
KLIWAS - Impacts of climate change on waterways and navigation

…to analyse the potential consequences of climate change for navigation on inland and coastal waterways and to formulate appropriate strategies for adaptation to the changed environmental…

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2013 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Other
KLIMZUG - NordWest 2050

Prospects for Climate-Adapted Innovation Processes in the Model Region Bremen-Oldenburg in North Western Germany

2014 finished Best practice Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Wadden Sea
ComCoast

Innovations in coastal protection along the southern North Sea coast. See also: Ahlhorn, F. (2009): Long-term Perspective in Coastal Zone Development - Multifunctional Coastal Protection Zones,…

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2004 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Other
Climate Proof Areas

The district of Wesermarsch has been chosen as a project area in the European Climate Proof Areas- project (CPA).  The rural hinterland concept is a unique initiative which draws up intelligent…

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2011 finished Best practice, Policy and management Website English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
BLAST

Address the needs of marine spatial planning, environmental protection, socio-economic development, risk management and mitigation, by delivering harmonised land and sea geographic data sets

2012 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark
"Speichern statt pumpen" - Restoring instead of pumping

Integrated drainage management at the Lower Saxonian coast

2010 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
CLAMER

European 7th Framework Programme project about climate change impacts on the marine environment ,the research results and public perception of marine climate change. 19 marine research institutes…

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2011 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project English Netherlands
MALEK - Effects of Global Change on Marine Ecosystems

Protected species and habitats in the German Baltic Sea and in the North Sea and their sensitivities against anthropogenic impacts and climate change

2012 finished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Project English Germany
HoRisk - Flood Risk Management for the Coastal Area 2012 finished Best practice, Policy and management Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
Protected Areas in Germany under Global Change - Risks and Policy Options: Climate Change in Protected Areas

At this interactive page (in German) climate change scenarios are visible for more than 4000 protected areas (including the Wadden Sea National Parks).

2009 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Germany
Climate Change and the Wadden Sea (Michael-Otto-Foundation)

The effects of climate change on the German Waddensea (coastal mudflats) and the entire Waddensea region are the central focus of the ‘Waddensea Dialogue’. On the Foundation’s invitation, a panel…

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2010 finished Best practice, Communication and education Project German Germany, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein
XtremRisK Extreme storm surges at open coasts and estuarine areas: Risk assessment and mitigation under climate change aspects

To investigate which extreme values of storm surge components will be physically possible under the present and future climate change conditions; storm surge scenarios for which the investigated…

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2012 finished Best practice Project German Germany
COADAPT

Develop technical and shoreline management tools to meet the additional threats that an increased sea level rise and changes in storm conditions impose on coastal areas

2013 finished Best practice, Communication and education Website English Denmark
SafeCoast - Keeping our feet dry in the North Sea region

Safecoast was about gaining and sharing knowledge and information on coastal flood and erosion risk management between coastal management authorities in five North Sea countries: Denmark, Germany…

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2008 fnished Best practice, Policy and management Project English Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Wadden Sea
A-Küst @ KLIFF

Changes in the coastal climate - evaluation of alternative strategies in coastal protection:  In 7 sub-projects, the research area ‘A- KŰST’ will investigate at a realistic scale, both the loads…

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2013 fnished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website German Germany, Lower Saxony
PACE - The future of the Wadden Sea sediment fluxes: still keeping pace with sea level rise?

The project responds to the Georisks part of the 1st transnational call for proposals on Bilateral Wadden Sea Research by aiming at assessing the present state and sensitivity to future trends in…

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2015 fnished Best practice, Monitoring and assessment Website Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Wadden Sea
Climate Protection Schleswig-Holstein

report on climate adaptation policy in Schleswig-Holstein

2009 ongoing Policy and management, Communication and education Policy report German Germany, Schleswig-Holstein