Adaptation Strategies for the Mediterranean

Climate mitigation in the Mediterranean Europe: An assessment of regional and city-level plans

“…Climate change-induced coastal hazard (Nicholls and Hoozemans, 1996) and river flooding (Ribas et al, 2020;Vinet et al, 2019) pose additional high risks, according to the vulnerability of the ME from both an ecological and a socio-economic perspective. Climate risks in the ME area are significant (Billé et al, 2013), due to both the magnitude and frequency of the hazards involved, the vulnerability of these areas and the limited adaptive capacity. The latter is due to the lack of financial tools, a great socio-economic diversity across population groups and poor or inadequate governance and conditions of urban infrastructures and settlements (Cramer et al, 2018).…”

Social Aspects of Water Scarcity and Drought

“…With regard to climate change, adaptation is an anticipatory and proactive process, which aims at identifying the possible future impacts and vulnerabilities rather than focusing on emergency responses [8]. Adaptation policies should especially take into account the dynamic nature of vulnerability and exposure to risks and include the assessment of their potential spatial and temporal change under different development scenarios [12].…”

“…According to Billé et al (2013) [8], nations which have more pressing and concrete problems to concern with, are difficult to be encouraged to allocate resources to adaptation to climate change.…”