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Assessment of the Potential of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Europe

 
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Assessment of the Potential of Ecosystem-based Approaches to Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Europe

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Naumann, Sandra, Gerardo Anzaldua, Pam Berry, Sarah Burch, McKenna Davis, Ana Frelih-Larsen, Holger Gerdes and Michele Sanders (2011): Assessment of the potential of ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation in Europe. Final report to the European Commission, DG Environment, Contract no. 070307/2010/580412/SER/B2, Ecologic Institute and Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University Centre for the Environment

This study aimed to address current knowledge gaps regarding the uptake and implementation of ecosystem-based approaches, and thereby gain a better understanding of their role and potential in climate change adaptation and mitigation in Europe. A database of 161 applicable projects, five in-depth case studies, targeted interviews with European Commission officials and a literature review served as the basis for this assessment. Using these sources, this study sought to illuminate the success factors leading to and obstacles hindering the implementation of ecosystem-based approaches in climate change programmes at local, regional, national and transnational levels and provide appropriate recommendations for overcoming existing obstacles. Furthermore, evidence on the costs and benefits of ecosystem-based approaches has been collected and compared to the costs and benefits of traditional engineered approaches for addressing climate change and its impacts.

Addressing the effects of climate change via adaptation measures and the implementation of mitigation measures is central to ensuring continued ecosystem functioning, human health and socio-economic security.

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Pam Berry, Sarah Burch, Michele Sanders (ECI)
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External reviewers of the report:
Nathalie Doswald (Programme Officer, Climate Change and Biodiversity, UNEP - World Conservation Monitoring Centre)
Claire Vos (Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre)
Case study authors and contacts/interviewees:
Restoring Peatlands in Belarus
Author: Gerardo Anzaldua (Ecologic Insitute)
Contacts: Zbigniew Karpowicz, Sviataslau Valasiuk, Olga Chabrouskaya, Irina Voitekhovitch, Annett Thiele, Merten Minke, Mikhail Maksimenkau, Nina Tanovitskaya, Natalya Minchenko, Collaborators at the Lida Forest Enterprise, Director of the Lida Peat Factory
Retrofitting Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) in an urban regeneration area (Augustenborg, Malmö), Sweden
Author: Sarah Burch (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
Contacts: Trevor Ian Graham, Marianne Beckmann
Forest rehabilitation Krkonoše and Sumava National Parks, Czech Republic
Authors: Fanny Frick, McKenna Davis (Ecologic Institute)
Contacts: Jan Hřebačka, Josef Fanta, Adam Jirsa
Wallasea Island Wild Coast Project, UK
Author: Sarah Burch (Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford)
Contacts: Chris Tyas, Jeff Kew
De Doorbraak, the Netherlands
Authors: Franziska Stuke, Ruta Landgrebe (Ecologic Institute)
Contacts: Henk Lansink, Roelof Klem

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Belarus, Augustenborg, Malmö, Sweden, Krkonoše and Sumava National Parks, Czech Republic, Wallasea Island, UK, De Doorbraak, the Netherlands
case study, interview