Climate change and adaptation
Climate is changing, despite the dispute on the causes, we must be prepared for the consequences. Many scenario studies have been carried out on various outlooks. The most probable giving information for politicians to base their decisions on. Core item is the durability of our green and blue environment, both in a natural and a social way. Adaptation studies are carried out in natural and semi-natural systems. Resilience of ecosystems and adaptation of society are core topics. Mitigation studies on carbon balances take place all over the world.
The Environmental Sciences Group of Wageningen University and Research Centre participates in a wide range of national and international research programmes together with research institutes, universities, government agencies and companies in the Netherlands and abroad.
A few examples of these projects:
International
- ADAM: European research into the effectiveness and costs of climate policy (www.adamproject.eu)
- CarboEurope: European project that studies the carbon cycle (www.carboeurope.org)
- CarboPeat: international research into tropical peat swamp forests and the emission of greenhouse gasses (www.carbopeat.org)
- CCB: framework of cooperation within Wageningen UR involving research into the biospheric and socio-economic aspects of climate change (www2.wau.nl/ccb)
- Euro-limpacs: an integrated project of 36 partners funded by the European Union designed to assess the effects of future global change on Europe’s freshwater ecosystems (www.eurolimpacs.ucl.ac.uk)
- NeWater: European research into climate-resistant water management (www.newater.info)
- Scientific support of the IPCC (www.ipcc.ch)
National
- Climate changes Spatial Planning: research into the consequences of climate change for the Netherlands (in Dutch: www.klimaatvoorruimte.nl
- Knowledge for Climate Change: region-oriented research into possible measures to counteract the consequences of climate change in the Netherlands (in Dutch: www.kennisvoorklimaat.nl)
- Nature Calendar: observation programme to map out the ecological consequences of climate change in the Netherlands
(in Dutch: www.natuurkalender.nl)
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