NordRegio, ‘Climate Change Emergencies and European Municipalities: Guidelines for Adaptation and Response’

This Guidelines booklet is designed for “hands-on use”. They are intended to stimulate and assist planning for climate change adaptation in locally-based administrations, including municipalities, counties and other regional organizations. The primary focus is on developing responses to climate change emergencies.When examples are needed the topic of flood safety is used, but the Guidelines are equally applicable to all sorts of emergencies, and even to other more general aspects of climate change adaptation, such as planning, policy-making and public awareness.

The guidance is available in the following languages: Danish, Finnish, German, Italian, Lithuanian and Swedish.