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Title: Adaptation in the Netherlands


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Adaptation in the Netherlands
  • Bas Clabbers
  • Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality
  • the Netherlands

2
Adaptation strategy
  • No specific adaptation strategy or policy plan ?
    integrated in other policy areas
  • Sector specific vulnerability assessments (most
    common in water sector)
  • Adaptation policies most strongly developed in
    water sector (both planning and implementation)

3
The Netherlands
  • Around 50 of the country lies below sea level
    and it lies on the delta of three rivers (Rhine,
    Maas or Meuse and Schelde)
  • Lowest point Zuidplaspolder 7 m.
  • Highest point Vaalserberg 322 m.

4
Floods in January 1996
5
Flooding caused by extreme drought (August 2004)
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Resulting in
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Adaptation strategy (continued)
  • Research dominates policy agenda in other sectors
    (e.g. spatial planning, agriculture, nature)
  • Costs of adaptation are largely unknown and not
    budgeted for

8
Hurdles
  • Uncertainties of impacts of climate change
  • National policy versus local/regional
    implementation
  • Transboundary measures are sometimes needed
  • Climate change is only one of the influences on
    different policy areas
  • Mid-term focus of most policy areas versus long
    term impacts
  • The climate changes gradually

9
Concluding remarks
  • An overall national adaptation strategy may not
    be needed
  • Hurdles in national adaptation strategies might
    be even bigger in an international strategy or
    instrument
  • Joint research and sharing experiences on methods
    and tools might be useful
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