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Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change in Europe
EEA Technical report No 7/2005

Released: 2005/12/07: See the report

Abstract
The report shows that in Europe mountain regions, coastal zones, wetlands and the Mediterranean region are particularly vulnerable to climate change. Although there could be some positive effects, many impacts are likely to be adverse. Existing adaptive measures are concentrated in flood defence, so there is considerable scope for adaptation planning and implementation in other areas, such as public health, water resources and management of ecosystems.

Prepared by: European Topic Centre for Air and Climate Change (ETC/ACC) of the EEA provided input to this report. The coordinating input from the ETC/ACC was provided by Xianfu Lu (Tyndall Centre, UK). Contributors included, in alphabetical order: Alison Colls (Tyndall Centre, UK) Markus Erhard (IMK-IFU, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany) Uta Fritsch (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research) Jelle van Minnen (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands) Thomas Voigt (Umweltbundesamt, Germany)

EEA project manager: André Jol

Publish date: 2005/12/07

Published by: © EEA (European Environment Agency), Copenhagen, 2005.