Challenges to Planning Climate Adaptation Strategies in Europe

BASE Policy Brief No. 1

Publication: Policy Brief
Citation: Bosello, Francesco et al. 2013: Challenges to Planning Climate Adaptation Strategies in Europe, Berlin: Ecologic Institute.

How can adaptation reduce the impacts of climate change and, in some cases, even yield benefits and business opportunities? Decision makers at all levels in Europe currently face a number of significant challenges when devising appropriate and sustainable adaptation strategies. This policy brief is an output of the EU FP7 project "Bottom-up Climate Adaptation Strategies Towards a Sustainable Europe" (BASE) and summarises the following challenges: Uncertainties and insufficient knowledge, as well as the need to improve assessments and the mainstreaming of adaptation in policy.

The Policy Brief [pdf, 530 KB, English] is available for download at the BASE website.

This policy brief summarises the key challenges, highlighting their implications for adaptation strategies and measures and pointing to avenues of research.

Policy Coordination for National Climate Change Adaptation in Europe: All Process, but Little Power

Year 2020

Publication:Book Section

This book chapter explores how policies and policy-making perform to support climate change adaptation. It is part of the book: Adapting to Climate Change in Europe: Exploring Sustainable Pathways - From Local Measures to Wider Policies which is a scientific synthesis of a four-year project on adaptation activities in Europe (BASE). This book aims at ensuring sustainable solutions in adaptation to climate change. This chapter reflects on different tools which can support decision making for climate adaptation and that have been presented in other chapters of the book. It also discusses how current adaptation measures operate to enhance the capacity to respond to climate change impacts in a coherent manner across sectors. Ecologic Institute's Jenny Tröltzsch and Katriona McGlade contributed to this chapter.

Analyzing the Policy Framework for Climate Change Adaptation

Year 2018

Publication:Book Section

This book chapter provides an overview of climate change adaptation across Europe, from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, drawing on key findings from case study-based research on local climate change impacts and adaptation solutions, including an analysis of participatory, economic, and sociopolitical approaches, methodologies, and tools. Ecologic Institute's Jenny Tröltzsch contributed to this chapter.

The Diversity of Adaptation in a Multilevel Governance Setting

Year 2018

Publication:Book Section

Stelljes, Nico: Using Active Public Participation in the Co-development of Coastal Protection Strategies for a Touristic Beach City. Timmendorfer Strand, Germany. in: Ng, K., Campos, I., Penha-Lopes, G. (Eds.). (2016). BASE adaptation inspiration book: 23 European cases of climate change adaptation to inspire European decision-makers, practitioners and citizens. Lisbon: Faculty of Sciences, University of Lisbon, 122-125.

Using Active Public Participation in the Co-development of Coastal Protection Strategies for a Touristic Beach City

Timmendorfer Strand, Germany

Year 2016

Event:Workshop

Concluding four years of interdisciplinary collaboration and research the BASE project brought together representatives working on climate adaptation policy at EU and Member State level, as well as local practitioners for an interactive day on climate change adaptation in Brussels. The main focus of the workshop was a series of policy observations that emerged from research in the BASE project. As a result another policy recommendation was developed which is available for download.

Implementing the EU Adaptation Strategy - Practical Insights and Policy Recommendations

9 June 2016
Brussels, Belgium

Publication:Poster

Tröltzsch, Jenny; Benjamin Boteler; Katrina Abhold (2016): A Global Analysis of Adaptation Case Studies: State of the Art. Poster.

A Global Analysis of Adaptation Case Studies: State of the Art

Year 2016

Event:Conference

Vivienne Parry welcomed approximately 1700 attendees from over 100 countries to the fourth edition of Adaptation Futures 2016, one of the largest conferences ever held on climate change adaptation. The Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies (BASE) project was selected to be featured as a best practice project at the conference. BASE partners, among them Ecologic Institute, presented the project's research and tools in two sessions.

Adaptation Futures 2016

10 - 13 May 2016
Rotterdam, Netherlands

Publication:Policy Brief

BASE Consortium 2016: Key Policy Issues in Implementing and Evaluating the EU Adaptation Strategy. BASE Policy Brief # 4.

Key Policy Issues in Implementing and Evaluating the EU Adaptation Strategy – BASE Policy Brief # 4

BASE Policy Brief No. 4

Year 2016

Publication:Report

This report aims at investigating the participation process in climate change adaptation for 22 European BASE case studies. A description of participatory methods and a further analysis of 9 BASE case studies where there has been a deliberative adaptation process present are given. Based on the results presented, a set of recommendations to policy-makers and practitioners are given. The output from D5.3 will lead up to D5.5, in which a more detailed analytical description of the framework will be given and a meta-analysis of the empirical contents will be delivered.

Participation in Climate Change Adaptation

Year 2015

Language: English
Authorship: Benjamin Boteler

Francesco Bosello (CMCC)

Inês Campos (FFCUL)

Alessio Capriolo (ISPRA)

Mikael Hilden (SYKE)

Ad Jeuken (Deltares)

Gil Penha-Lopes (FFCUL)
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International
Year: 2013
Dimension: 7 pp.
Project: Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for a Sustainable Europe (BASE)
Project ID: 2716
Table of contents: Click to show full table of contents

Key Messages

1. Introduction

2. Uncertainities and insufficient knowledge
2.1 Physical changes
2.2 Socioeconomic trends and processes
2.3 Costs and benefits of adaptation

3. Need to improve assessments
3.1 Integrated assessment models
3.2 Analysis of cases

4. Mainstreaming climate adaptation in policy
4.1 Synergies and conflict across sectors
4.2 Participatory approaches

5. Conclusion

6. References

Authors

Acknowledgements
Keywords: Adaptation

Climate

EU

climate change, adaptation, cost-benefit-analysis, synergies, trade-offs, stakeholder involvement, case studies, participation

Europe

Further Links

Project Website: BASE

ProjectFP 7Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

The EU research project "Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for a Sustainable Europe" (BASE) supports action for sustainable climate change adaptation in Europe. BASE makes experiential and scientific information on adaptation meaningful, transferable and easily... Read more

Bottom-Up Climate Adaptation Strategies for a Sustainable Europe (BASE)

Duration: Oct 2012 - Sep 2016
Funding: European Commission, Directorate-General Research & Innovation (DG Research & Innovation), International