In 2017, the Republic of Serbia ratified the 2015 Paris Agreement on Climate Change.Like other signatories to the agreement, Serbia is legally obliged to fulfill the agreed goals. By accepting the Strategy and the Law on Climate Change, a strategic and legal framework will be created for starting activities in the field of climate change adaptation in Serbia. Certainly, in order to begin this process, for an efficient implementation of the adaptation Program, it is necessary to establish an appropriate management system and to select the most appropriate planning approaches that will contribute sustainability of the adaptation process itself. In thatsense, the subject of this paper is to look at the basic approaches to adaptation planning and the characteristics of adaptive project management as potentially the most appropriate management model when it comes to adaptation to climate change.

Projected climate changes will additionally increase the already significant risk of natural hazard-related disasters in Serbia and the west Balkan region as a whole. Serbia is about to introduce the strategy for climate change adaptation and mitigation. However, a national decision-support system for implementation of the climate change law and strategy is yet to be developed. This study contributes to the implementation of adaptation policies at subnational levels by development of a decision-support model for local-level management of the climate change adaptation process. The study explores the potential for synergetic application of multicriteria decision making analysis and probabilistic reasoning methods by focusing on Bayesian networks, analytical hierarchy processes, and geographic information systems for selection of priority adaptation measures. The study was based on the formation of causal chains, which enable linking management decisions and socioeconomic or biophysical consequences into articulated sequences of conditional relationships. A model was tested in the forestry sector, and it clearly pointed out development of an early warning system and planning of water intake basins as priority adaptation measures. Since the results are shown as a probability distribution for each alternative solutions, the model can assist decision makers with prompt evaluation of various scenarios.

In regards to waste treatment and management, both in the European Union and in the Republic of Serbia, a candidate for EU membership, it is necessary to improve municipal waste management systems, transform them into sustainable management systems and treat waste as a resource in order to preserve the environment and protect human health. In May 2018, an amendment to Directive 2008/98/EC, Directive 2018/851 was adopted, which refers to waste treatment in EU member states and which is in line with all other laws and regulations of the European Union. The total production of municipal waste in the 35 European countries participating in the data collection decreased by 3% in absolute terms and the average amount of waste per person by 7%. The aim of this paper is to compare the amount of municipal waste generated by residents of urban areas in the Republic of Serbia and in the Member States of the European Union.

The climate trends and climate scenario for the Republic of Serbia show a continuous increase in annual average temperature and change in precipitation patterns. In line with the forthcoming national program for adaptation to climate change, the objective of this research is a brief review of relevant decision support tools. For this purpose, 150 tools from three databases had been