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Climate adaptation strategy for the Grimsel area in the Swiss Alps

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Catchment management approach to flash flood risks in Glasgow

Normally a shallow river, the White Cart Water was prone to flash flooding. Its water levels can rise by six metres after just 12 hours of rain, which threatened vulnerable Glasgow suburbs downstream

CALCHAS - An integrated analysis system for the effective fire conservancy of forests

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Building railway transport resilience to Alpine hazards in Austria

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Bosco Limite - A participatory strategy of water saving and aquifer artificial recharge in Northern Italy

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Adaptation in winter tourism in Spessart (Germany)

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IRRINET: IT irrigation system for agricultural water management in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

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Heatwave plan for England

In 2003, a 10 day heatwave period caused over 2,000 excess deaths (compared to the same dates in the previous five years) in UK. As a response, the heatwave plan for England was first issued in 2014 and has since undergone annual updates (last update in May 2016 has not introduced changes to 2015 version that therefore it is the one still valid)

Hydropower expansion and improved management in response to increased glacier melt in Iceland

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Flood risk management for hydropower plants in France

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GAIA - Green Area Inner-city Agreement to finance tree planting in Bologna

Bologna, like many Southern European cities, is facing drought, extreme temperatures and water scarcity as a result of climate change. With no national or regional adaptation action plan still in place, the city of Bologna took it upon themselves to draft an Adaptation Plan to Climate Change

European funds for flood protection measures in Smolyan - Bulgaria

Smolyan municipality is reinforcing river flood protection measures by strengthening defence walls, maintaining riverbanks and cleaning riverbeds. European funds have been a clear enabling factor for all these interventions

Flood defence framework for National Grid substations in United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has historically experienced severe flood events, including that of summer 2007, which resulted in the loss of essential services including water and energy supply, as well as the destruction of infrastructures, with estimated costs exceeding £3.2 billion

Environment-friendly urban street design for decentralized ecological rainwater management in Ober-Grafendorf, Lower Austria

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Flood protection in the Upper Vistula river basin: grey and green measures implemented in the Sandomierz area

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Creation of man-made snowdrifts for improving the breeding success of the Saimaa ringed seal

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Coastal protection by managed realignment, Titchwell Marsh

Titchwell Marsh lies towards the western end of the North Norfolk coast in UK. It forms a key part of the North Norfolk Coast Special Protection Area (SPA) and Special Area of Conservation (SAC)

Crop diversification and improved soil management for adaptation to climate change in Segovia (Spain)

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Autonomous adaptation to droughts in an agro-silvo-pastoral system in Alentejo

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Assessing adaptation challenges and increasing resilience at Heathrow airport

In 2011, as all other large infrastructure providers in UK, Heathrow Airport Limited (HAL) was asked by the UK government to submit a climate change adaptation report (also called adaptation strategy). The report included a climate adaptation risk analysis matrix, which has been regularly monitored since then

An integrated plan incorporating flood protection: the Sigma Plan (Scheldt Estuary, Belgium)

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Amphibious housing in Maasbommel, the Netherlands

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Agroforestry: agriculture of the future? The case of Montpellier

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Addressing coastal erosion in Marche region, Italy

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Adapting to the impacts of heatwaves in a changing climate in Botkyrka, Sweden

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Adaptive restoration of the former saltworks in Camargue, southern France

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Adapting to heat stress in Antwerp (Belgium) based on detailed thermal mapping

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A transboundary depoldered area for flood protection and nature: Hedwige and Prosper Polders

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Adapting overhead lines in response to increasing temperatures in UK

Several energy transmission and distribution companies in the UK have begun to take the impact of increasing temperatures into consideration for the long-design of electricity distribution infrastructure. Rising temperatures can impact power lines by reducing their thermal rating (i

Adaptation of French standards for design, maintenance and operation of transport infrastructures

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