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Climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies already in practice based on the 1st River Basin Management Plans of the EU Member States
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The decision whether or not to include climate change (CC) issues into the 1st River BasinManagement Plans (RBMP) was depending on the availability of information and on the urgency ofthe CC related problems involved for each country. Most countries included a chapter to the 1st RBMPdo describe the observed CC and its impacts to water resources management and carried out the‘climate checking’ of their programs of measures but the results were reported with a very differentlevel of detail. The distinction of specific CC measures from the complex of measures dealing withfloods, droughts and water quality protection, was rather arbitrary. In the Annex of present report themeasures are categorized according to the original reports and, hence, some measures which arequalified as CC measures by one country may be not mentioned by other countries which did notconsider the linkage to CC strong enough. Some of the measures in the Annex were not directly listedas measures in the management plans, but were picked out from the text discussing the tackling ofclimate impact. In present analysis, special attention was paid to adaptation measures addressingclimate impact on ecosystems. This topic was rather scarcely presented in nine of the 18 RBMPsanalysed. As the measures are translated from different languages, the wording does not pretend thefull authenticity of the original text and for more detail it is suggested to consult the original plans innational languages. The present report is of relevance to the 7th EU Framework Programme, Theme6 (Environment including Climate Change) project REFRESH (Adaptive strategies to Mitigate theImpacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems, Contract No.: 244121), to JRCThematic Area 3 (Sustainable management of natural resources) foci on CC, to the European ClearingHouse mechanism on CC, and to the EC Blueprint on Water
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European Commission and Joint Research Centre
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JRC Scientific and Technical Reports
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Publication year : 2010
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