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Cetaqua, Water Technology Centre (HORIZON Europe ICARIA)

Adaptation Measures Portfolio

Adaptation measures have been collected by ICARIA multidisciplinary researchers from existing scientific literature and other relevant sources to support climate change action, considering all hazards included in the Project ICARIA framework, including compound events. The aim is to offer a holistic vision of adaptation, including physical aspects, as well as economic and welfare impacts, the latter measured through social, environmental and economic co-benefits. Additionally, the platform offers an interactive guide to design, evaluate and prioritise Adaptation Strategies, offering different criteria to do so - giving freedom to the user to define it based on the priorities of the decision makers.

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What you can do with it

Input

  • Explore adaptation measures covering physical, economic and welfare (social, environmental, economic co-benefit) dimensions
  • Use the interactive guide to design an adaptation strategy
  • Define evaluation and prioritisation criteria according to decision-makers' own priorities

Output

  • Reports and decision-support material on adaptation measures
  • Narratives and best-practice examples
  • Evaluated and prioritised adaptation strategies based on user-defined criteria

Use it to

  • Identify adaptation measures addressing flooding, sea-level rise, heat, drought, fire/wildfire, wind/storm and compound events
  • Design, evaluate and prioritise an adaptation strategy
  • Weigh physical, social, environmental and economic co-benefits of different measures

Why is it relevant to climate adaptation

Offers a genuinely holistic view of adaptation — not just physical measures but their welfare co-benefits — and lets decision-makers set their own prioritisation criteria rather than a fixed one. Validated through case studies and user/pilot testing across Spain, Austria and Greece, but has no dedicated cost-benefit analysis function.

Used in

  • Adaptation strategy design and prioritisation under the Horizon Europe ICARIA project, in Spain, Austria and Greece
  • Subnational authorities and researchers across agriculture, biodiversity, buildings, coastal areas, cultural heritage, energy, forestry, health, tourism, transport, urban and water management

Metadata

User Group
National authoritiesSubnational authoritiesResearchers supporting policy
Geographic coverage
Countries:
SpainAustriaGreece
Municipalities & other:
Multi-country
Spatial resolution

Local

Support of Adaptation Policy Cycle
Step 3: Identifying Adaptation Options
Step 4: Assessing and Prioritising Adaptation Options
Adaptation sectors
AgricultureBiodiversityBuildings
Climate hazards
FloodingSea Level RiseHeat
Type of outputs
Reports and decision supportNarrativesBest practice examples
Temporality of data
Present
Language
English
Accessibility and usability
High
Data sources
Public datasets from external providersProject-generated or processed datasetsUser-provided input data
Tool validation use
Case-study validationUser testing / pilot testing

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