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This book describes the iterative steps that were successfully undertaken to develop adaptation measures to climate change in two Vietnamese provinces. The methodology used to develop the scientific basis and the societal agreement of the need to adapt to climate change is applicable also to other regions in Vietnam, Asia and worldwide.The uncertainties of climate change models make it difficult to justify investments to finance protection from uncertain impacts. Setting out with the projected climate change impacts in Vietnam, which is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, the book describes a methodological approach to assess and evaluate local vulnerabilities of natural resources to climate change and socio-economic impacts, engaging local stakeholders in the development of locally acceptable and economically feasible adaptation measures. The methodological approach to understand the vulnerabilities and to develop climate change adaptation measures was scenario workshops that supported the communication between scientists and stakeholders.The development of climate change adaptation strategies is nearly state-of-the-art in many countries, but often there is still a large step towards implementing climate change adaptation measures on the local level. The challenge in the development of adaptation measures lies in their acceptability by local stakeholders and decision makers. Climate change adaptation measures also usually demand investments. To understand potential future risks the communication methodology was to first get a good understanding of the natural resources (mainly surface and groundwater) and their potential vulnerabilities (current and future). This was followed by developing a common understanding of current risk patterns, as well as underlying vulnerabilities and hazards. Socio-economic developments have an equally strong, and in the short term mostly even stronger, impact on the living environment and natural resources as long-term climate change impacts. The scenario workshops developed a holistic approach on current and potential future risk patterns, with a special focus on surface and groundwater quantities and qualities, natural hazards and sea level rise. Land-use planning was identified as playing a decisive role in minimizing current and future risks. Finally, first adaptation measures for two Vietnamese provinces were developed and shall be implemented over the next years. The methodology that led to these adaptation measures shall be applied in other Vietnamese provinces.

1 Communicating Climate Change Adaptation: From Strategy Development to Implementation -- 2 Participatory Climate Change Adaptation in Kalundborg, Denmark -- 3 Adaptation to Sea Level Rise: Calculating Costs and Benefits for the Case Study Kalundborg, Denmark -- 4 Coastal Protection and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Didactically Processed Examples -- 5 Preparing for Climate Change: Planning Adaptation to Climate Change in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, Finland -- 6 Adaptation to Floods in Riga, Latvia: Historical Experience and Change of Approaches -- 7 Climate Adaptation in Metropolis Hamburg: Paradigm Shift in Urban Planning and Water Management towards 'Living with Water'? -- 8 Climate Change Adaptation Policy in Bergen: Ideals and Realities -- 9 Adaptation to Climate Change in the Smeltale River Basin, Lithuania -- 10 The Geological Structure of Pyynikinharju Esker and the Local Effects of Climate Change -- 11 Climate Change and Groundwater: Impacts and Adaptation in Shallow Coastal Aquifer in Hanko, South Finland -- 12 Climate Change and Groundwater -- From Modelling to some Adaptation Means in Example of Klaipeda Region, Lithuania -- 13 Climate Change -- A New Opportunity for Mussel Farming in the Southern Baltic? -- 14 Impacts of Sea Level Change to the West Estonian Coastal Zone towards the End of the 21st Century -- 15 Geodynamical Conditions of the Karkle Beach (Lithuania) and Adaptation to Sea Level Change -- 16 Consequences of Climate Change and Environmental Policy for Macroalgae Accumulations on Beaches along the German Baltic Coastline -- 17 Climate Change Impacts on Baltic Coastal Tourism and the Complexity of Sectoral Adaptation -- 18 Tourists' Perception of Coastal Changes -- A Contribution to the Assessment of Regional Adaptation Strategies? -- 19 Experiences in Adapting to Climate Change and Climate Risks in Spain -- 20 Developing Adaptation Policies in the Agriculture Sector: Indonesia's Experience -- 21 'Climate Refugee' Is Not a Hoax. But We can Avoid it. Empirical Evidence from the Bangladesh Coast -- 22 Promoting Risk Insurance in the Asia-Pacific Region: Lessons from the Ground for the Future Climate Regime under UNFCCC.

Los peligros naturales son la causa de desastres terribles y también la fuente de importantes ventajas naturales, por lo que desempeñan un papel crucial al crear tanto restricciones como oportunidades para el desarrollo territorial. Por lo pronto, si la comparamos con el resto del mundo, probablemente Europa no sea propensa a sufrir los efectos más catastróficos de los desastres, aunque este continente está afectado por algunos de los más considerables. En el presente estudio, se analizan los riesgos resultantes, incluidos los efectos potenciales del cambio climático en toda Europa, con el objeto de crear medidas adecuadas para sostener el desarrollo territorial. La ordenación territorial constituye un elemento destacado en la gestión de los riesgos y de las repercusiones del cambio climático. La creciente importancia de los peligros naturales en el entorno vital ha provocado un aumento de las prácticas nacionales de ordenación territorial en las últimas décadas y, en la actualidad, también centra la atención de la Unión Europea. Aquí examinamos una incorporación más sólida de los peligros, los impactos del cambio climático y los riesgos resultantes en la ordenación territorial y en la gestión pública de los riesgos en el ámbito nacional y local y además esbozamos propuestas para el ámbito europeo. ; Natural hazards are the cause for terrible disasters, but also the source of important natural advantages, and thus they play a vital role in creating both restrictions and potentials of territorial development. Meanwhile Europe, as compared to the rest of the world, is arguably not prone to the most catastrophic effects of disasters, but this continent is nevertheless affected by several of the most important natural hazards. The resulting risks, including the potential effects of climate change, are analyzed on European scale with the aim to develop appropriate measures to support territorial development. Spatial planning plays an important role in the management of hazards and climate change impacts. The growing importance of natural hazards on the living environment has caused an increase of related national planning practices in European states in the past decades, and is now also receiving attention from the European Union. A stronger incorporation of hazards, climate change impacts and the resulting risks into spatial planning and risk governance is here analyzed on local and national scale and proposals are outlined for the European scale.