Elaboration of the concerted strategy of adaptation to climate change in the transnational Meuse basin

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Elaboration of the concerted strategy of
adaptation to climate change in thetransnational
Meuse basin

• Action 9

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Output /goal

• Guidance tool /adaptation strategy
• Floods and low flow
• Water related sectors
• Advice, strategy, action plan?
• Target group, who are the users?
• IMC and ??
• Presentation third international event

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Strategy will focus on

• the water-related sectors (influenced by floods
  and low flow)
• the complete basin,
• solutions with a transnational effect.
• the complete range of possible measures aimed at
  the reduction of damage risks.
• The cost of adaptation-the cost of inaction.

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How to arrive at a strategy

• Participation with stakeholders/users
• Stakeholder based approach?
• Technical approach (e.g. threshold analysis)?
• Or Both?
• Vision building with scenario approach (what is
  our vision, how do different scenarios effect the
  future and how should we react on these
  scenarios)?
• Focus on adaptation measures or general
  guidelines?
• Suggestion startup workshop of 1 or 2 days to
  develop common approach

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Questions

• Strategy?
• Stategy, guideline actionplan, or proces to
  arrive at a strategy?
• Target group?
• IMC ?
• Politicians and inhabitants?
• Method?
• Risk analysis (ac7)
• Water related sectors
• Flood risk, energy, agriculture, navigation,
  water supply
• Adaption in water or in water related sector? or
  both
• Spatial planning?
• Possible Measures and the costs?

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PROPOSAL

• Workshop with users and Amice (Sept 2011)
• Define scope of the strategy
• Target group
• select method
• Second mid term workshop (spring 2012)
• Final workshop (October 2012)

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