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Climate change will affect all types of infrastructure, including energy, transport and water. Rising temperatures, increased flood risk and other potential hazards will threaten the reliable and efficient operation of these networks, with potentially

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The sustainable development of cities is threatened by a worldwide water crisis. Improved social learning is urgently needed to transform urban water governance and make it more integrated and adaptive. However, empirical studies remain few and fragmented

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This overview report is based upon the AACA science assessment for the Barents area. The study focuses on the diverse challenges that residents have experienced and the adaptations they have begun to plan and implement in response to the rapid changes in

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The National Climate Strategy concerns municipal land and water use, municipal development and preservation of the built environment.
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The objective for the action plan is to concretize the strategy by initiating measures and activities that create conditions that allow for all vital societal functions (VSF) and critical infrastructure (CI) to have implemented systematic safety work into

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This handbook describes how a staff and decision exercise, oriented towards crisis management may be evaluated. The evaluation will cover both the behaviour of the exercise participants and the impact of the chosen exercise format on outcome. Conducting

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Floods constitute a major problem that cross geopolitical, administrative, and sectoral boundaries, and must as such be jointly governed by a web of actors. The patterns of social relations among these actors are fundamental for society's capacity to

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The aim of this technical paper is to provide the state-of-play in policy and practice for assessing social vulnerability and developing socially just adaptation responses to climate change in urban areas in Europe.

The paper is organized as follows: It

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