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Journal: Climate Policy no. 5 

This special issue of the climate policy journal addresses the following key questions:
* What long-term range of policies for climate change adaptation and mitigation should Europe pursue to adequately enhance

Many disasters in Africa take place in urban areas, affecting millions of people each year. There is therefore an increasing need to understand how the risks from potential disasters develop in urban contexts, and to identify how locally owned processes

Fluvial floods are a common natural hazard in Europe. Only in the 90ies, large floods have affected the Meuse and Rhine, the Oder and the Po rivers. Following the devastating floods in the Elbe and Danube river basins in 2002, the European Commission

The increasingly variable climate in Europe has seen rising numbers of extreme flood events in the last decades, in the Danube, Odra and Elbe river basins just to name a few. The floods most perceived by the public are the large-scale riverine floods

Forest fires are one of the most devastating forces of nature. It has claimed lives,damaged property and infrastructure and destroyed hectares and hectares of forest land,which provide economical and recreational resources to society. Forests are also the

An important step for member states of EU was to develop comparable methods for evaluating the status of the water-bodies. Since fishes are more likely to be regarded as food than as environmental indicators, it has been difficult to establish methods

Unfortunately, the careful use and management of soil has not been a high priority for many people. In fact, there is evidence that the thin layer of soil that we all depend on, in many areas of Europe and beyond, may be increasingly threatened by a range

The aim of the PESETA project is to assess the impacts of climate change in Europe on a policy-relevant time horizon (2020, 2030) using consistent methods (climate scenarios) for six sectors (agriculture, river floods, coastal floods, energy demand