The white paper, finalized in the framework of the EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Region project, proposes a framework for an integrated fire management, which addresses the drivers of the current and future fire regime in mountain forests, considers the needs of people living in and visiting the Alpine region and aims to mitigate the negative impacts of fires. A number of recommendations and actions are proposed to cope with the changing fire regime in the Alpine region.
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LIFE Ausseerland aims to improve the structural diversity in forests, as well as the function of ecological corridors between the mountainous areas. The project area encompasses two main Natura 2000 network sites, and several habitat connectivity corridors
Mountain areas are the major source of freshwater for lowlands thanks to their perennial and intermittent rivers. Southern Europeans mountains are highly sensitive to climate change, particularly in terms of downstream water resources
The Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory's Adapt Pyrenean ( OPCC ADAPYR) project is a unifying climate change project in the Pyrenees. It has made it possible to establish the bases for perpetuating the OPCC as an initiative of cooperation for climate change, beyond the duration of the project
PHUSICOS, meaning 'According to nature' in Greek, demonstrates how nature-based solutions (NBSs) provide robust, sustainable and cost-effective measures for reducing the risk of extreme weather events in rural mountain landscapes. Although mountains amplify risks, and even more so under extreme weather events, mountainous regions do not receive the same attention as densely populated urban areas in European disaster risk reduction plans
The Climate Adaptation Platform for the Alps: supports decision-makers in Alpine countries, regions and municipalities in adapting to climate change; gives access to knowledge resources and information that have been selected by experts based on relevance and usefulness criteria offers knowledge products for a broad spectrum of administrative and socio-economic sectors (agriculture, energy, health, water management, spatial planning, etc.) puts strong emphasis on cross-sectorial aspects of adaptation The platform provides resources about: Future climate (scenarios, projections) Climate impacts, vulnerabilities and risks Adaptation policies (national and regional adaptation strategies, sectorial adaptation policy documents, meta-analytical studies and policy reviews) Adaptation options (strategic directions, actions, measures) Tools (assessment methods, decision-support, guidelines, manuals, information portals) Adaptation in practice (practice examples of adaptation measures, case studies)
Climate change and human activities represent major threats to the ecosystems in the Alpine Space. Therefore, adaptation efforts are required to respond to the negative effects on the Alpine environment, economy and society
This report by the “Water Management in the Alps” Platform of the Alpine Convention presents experiences, approaches and common challenges of the Alpine countries in facing droughts on the basis of an alpine-wide questionnaire, two workshops and the 7th Conference on Water in the Alps.
Themain objective of the LIFE ADAPT-ALEPPO Project is the development of new tools for the adaptation of Iberian Aleppo pine forests (subtype 42.841 of Habitat 9540 of the Habitats Directive, Annex I) to climate change, as well as their demonstrative application
Mountains feature some of the clearest indications of climate change: rising temperatures, melting glaciers and changing precipitation patterns are disrupting water flows and affecting ecosystems, creating and worsening natural hazards and threatening livelihoods and communities both within the mountains and downstream. Mountain livelihoods are particularly sensitive to climate change, because climate impacts are often more profound in mountains and affect people already confronting poverty and land degradation
Adapting requires developing good sectorial policies and working to maximize co-benefits for climate and other domains. These Guidelines, prepared by Italy during its Presidency of the Alpine Convention in 2013-2014, provide information to the different sub-national governance levels on impacts, vulnerabilities and resilience capacity in various relevant policy sectors as well as policy guidance on the identification, selection, implementation, governance of local adaptation options as well as monitoring and evaluation, highlighting the key factors of success.
The overall objective of the PermaNET project is to make a contribution to the mitigation of natural hazards that result from climate change impacts on alpine permafrost. Through the creation of an alpine-wide monitoring network and by developing a common strategy for dealing with permafrost related hazards PermaNET contributes to sustainable development and the implementation of good governance practices
The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are the largest bodies of ice in the world and play an important role in the global climate system. Both ice sheets have been losing large amounts of ice at an increasing rate since 1992
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The Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory (OPCC) has been created under the Pyrenees Working Community (CTP), to monitor and understand climate change in the Pyrenees. It also functions as a permanent platform for exchanging information between scientists, politicians and other actors in the Pyrenees mountain range
The Carpathian Convention was adopted and signed by the seven Parties (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Ukraine) in May 2003 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and entered into force in January 2006. It is the only multi-level governance mechanism covering the whole of the Carpathian area and besides the Alpine Convention the second sub-regional treaty-based regime for the protection and sustainable development of a mountain region worldwide
The Alpine Convention is the international treaty signed by the eight Alpine countries (Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia and Switzerland) and the European Union for the sustainable development and the protection of the Alps. It entered into force in 1995
For more than a century, the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS) and its predecessor organizations have been compiling and disseminating standardized data on glacier fluctuations. Thereto, the WGMS annually collects glacier data through its scientific collaboration network that is active in more than 30 countries
The aim of the Swiss Permafrost Monitoring Network (PERMOS) is the sytematic long-term documentation of state and changes of mountain permafrost in the Swiss Alps. Long-term trends cannot be assessed from a snapshot and sound conclusions on the state and changes of climate and the environment are only possible based on regular and standardized measurements of key variables over long time periods
The purpose of Pyrenees Climate Change Observatory is to follow and understand the climate evolution in the Pyrenees with the aim of limiting the impacts and adapting to its effects by defining appropriate adaptation strategies for socio-economic sectors and the most fragile natural areas. More broadly, its approach seeks to develop the visibility of the Pyrenees on both a European and international level in the fields of observation and adaptation to climate change
Cost assessments of damage, prevention and response measures to natural hazards and associated risks supply crucial information to policy development and decision making in the fields of natural hazard and risk management. In times of tightened public funds, economic efficiency and prioritization of measures that reduce risks due to natural hazards is of prime importance
The European Alps stretch over a range of climate zones which affect the spatial distribution of snow. Previous analyses of station observations of snow were confined to regional analyses
The Climate Change Initiative (CCI) open data portal went live in Autumn 2016 at http://cci.esa
AdaPT Mont-Blanc is a strategic project of the Espace Mont-Blanc resulting from the priorities identified by the "Stratégie d'Avenir du Massif du Mont-Blanc" and financed by the European Program of Territorial Cooperation Alcotra Italy-France 2014-2020. The project develops tools for planning climate change adaptation actions and policies that can be integrated and adopted by public institutions of the Mont Blanc Area at different levels (local, regional), through a participatory approach and a cross-sectoral approach
The Alpine Space is severely affected by climate change. Adaptation to already unavoidable climatic changes is needed to prevent unmanageable impacts and to safeguard climate-resilient and balanced territorial development
Mountain ecosystems and forests are known to fulfil an important role in natural hazard and risk reduction; however, their efficiency in hazard regulation may be threatened by land use and climatic changes. So far, only a small number of strategies on how to integrate forests in risk management, balancing the numerous interests, demands and costs have been developed
Current levels of aridity in the Mediterranean appear to be unprecedented in the last 500 years and most climate models predict an increase in temperature and a substantial decrease in rainfall in the basin. Mediterranean representative socio-ecosystems (such as wetlands, high mountain ranges and coasts) and the services they provide are currently being negatively affected by Climate Change and, on the basis of current data, this affection is expected to increase significantly in the future
The document is based on Polish National Adaptation Strategy for Climate Change (NAS 2020) and summarizes the main issues related to climate change and adaptation needs for the most vulnerable sectors and areas: water management, coasts, health, urban areas, transports, energy, forest, agriculture, biodiversity, and mountain areas.
The article summarises the reasons of neccessity for urban adaptation, proposes an urban adaptation planning process integrated with mitigation planning and introduces to the use of remote sensing technologies in urban climate risk assessments. The proposed approach moves away from the concept of possession, but instead it is near the concept of sharing of resources and knowledge, cooperation; and introduces models of governance based on participation and involvement of citizens
Video on climate change adaptation by spatial planning in the Espace Mont-Blanc region.
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