CIRCLE 2- Adaptation Inspiration Book

The Adaptation Inspiration Book provides detailed information on each identified measure: to which sector it belongs, (i.e. water safety, agriculture, cities), specific climate effects adapted to, length of the project and costs and benefits, including the proportion of the budget project leaders indicated was allocated specifically to adaptation. Their comparison yields some insight into success factors of the project, and into what are ad- ditional benefits of these case studies. Although specific attention has been paid to find case studies from all over Europe, due to the Northern and Western European’s leading role in climate change adaptation research, these countries are responsible for the majority of case studies included in the Adaptation Inspiration Book. The identified measures tend to focus on water management (19 percent), biodiversity (19 percent), city planning (14 percent) and disaster risk reduction (14 percent) and most often tend to find adaptation solutions for flooding (72 percent). In 14 of 22 case studies, adaptation to a changing climate was the main motivation. Flood prevention and erosion were examples of triggers for measures in those case studies for which climate change was not the main driver.