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Guiding Mediterranean MPAs through the climate change era: building resilience and adaptation
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Over the coming decades, climate change will represent a rapidly increasing challenge for the ecosystems and the livelihoods in the Mediterranean area. Direct evidence of climate change is already being observed in the Mediterranean coast and in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
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LIFE and coastal habitats
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As the principal source of European-level funding for nature conservation, the European Commission LIFE Programme has a crucial role to play in ensuring the effective management and restoration of the Natura 2000 network in coastal areas and in meeting conservation objectives for coastal habitats and species. June 2017 LIFE Nature Focus publication illustrates the scope of innovative and best practices measures carried out by LIFE projects to improve the conservation status and resilience of coastal habitats across the EU
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Bringing INnovation to onGOing water management – A better future under climate change
The Challenge
There are plenty of long-term concepts on how to face climate change. But how
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Quick Risk Estimation (QRE)
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The Quick Risk Estimation (QRE) tool has been designed for the purposes of identifying and understanding current and future risks / stress / shocks and exposure threats to both human and physical assets. The QRE Tool is not a full scale risk assessment, rather a multi-stakeholder engagement process to establish a common understanding
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Social vulnerability to climate change in European cities – state of play in policy and practice
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The aim of this technical paper is to provide the state-of-play in policy and practice for assessing social vulnerability and developing socially just adaptation responses to climate change in urban areas. The paper is organized as follows: It describes how the present-day understanding of social vulnerability and equity in relation to climate change impacts and adaptation options have evolved (Chapter 2) and how this understanding can inform the way assessments and adaptation planning and guidance are designed (Chapter 3)
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Flooding: Managing Health Risks in the WHO European Region
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Looking back at the last 20 years, flood events in 49 countries in the WHO European Region have caused more than 2000 deaths and other health effects. Loss of property, damage to health facilities, displacement of people and enormous economic costs (estimated at around 70 billion EURO) have occurred
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The Christmas—Easter Shift: Simulating Alpine Ski Resorts' Future Development under Climate Change Conditions Using the Parameter ‘Optimal Ski Day’
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Ski tourism is strongly influenced by climate change. The economic success of ski tourism regions depends on both the quantity and quality of the ski resorts' opening days
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Sustainable tourism planning and climate change adaptation in the Alps: a case study of winter tourism in mountain communities in the Dolomites
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A vast body of literature suggests that the European Alpine Region is extremely sensitive to climate change. Winter tourism is closely related to climate variations, especially in mountain regions where resorts are heavily dependent on snow
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21st century climate change in the European Alps—A review
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Reliable estimates of future climate change in the Alps are relevant for large parts of the European society. At the same time, the complex Alpine region poses considerable challenges to climate models, which translate to uncertainties in the climate projections
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