Events at: Amsterdam International Water Week

Responding to risks of extreme events to advance climate change adaptation

The EC funded PEARL project demonstrates solutions to government’s and water practitioners on adaptive risk management measures for coastal cities against extreme hydro-meteorological events (with the focus on floods and storm surges). In this event the science behind the PEARL framework and its application in case study cities across Europe, Asia and the Caribbean will be presented. […]

Case session: Resilient Regions and Climate Change adaptation

Various regions worldwide face severe social, economic and environmental impacts due to climate change events. This case session focuses on Europe, the Caribbean and Asia with examples of cases on how to develop adaptive, sociotechnical measures and strategies to cope with these climate change events. Solutions are being incorporated in the session to indicate other […]

Roadmaps towards climate change adaptation

The world is changing, becoming increasingly complex. Climate change is the environmental problem of the 21st century contributing to the complexity, and introducing unpredictable changes with potentially harmful consequences to growing urban settings. Following the case session “Resilient Regions and Climate Change adaptation” (Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 11:00-12:30), case study representatives will be taken into […]