Philipp Schmidt-Thome and Johannes Klein: Climate change adaptation in practice: from strategy development to implementation

摘要

Increasing temperatures, melting ice caps, sea level rise, more frequent and more intense heat waves, rains and floods and changes in marine salinity gradients, are some of the most visible impacts of climate change today. These effects have resulted in recommendations by the international community (WSSD, 2002; IPCC, 2007; EU, 2009) that focuses on strategies and actions which go beyond the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to include adaptation of societies to the consequences of the changes. This is a fundamental shift in environmental policy strategies which, as a rule, are targeted toward alleviating the fundamental causes, and not the results' of pollution or resource use.