Implementation of Measures
Talking and decision making is only part of building the capacity to adapt. Being physically able to adapt is just as important. The following set of case studies cover a range of adaptation demonstration projects that took place between 2008 and 2011. Clim-ATIC was able to help local communities and decision makers implement adaptations and learn valuable lessons along the way.
A GIS flood risk management system
Climate change scenarios are needed for flood mapping and risk response planning. Currently, this kind of climate change and flood modelling is done only in the city of Pori and experiences and best practise from there are used also in Rovaniemi and Kittilä. Local adaptation strategy themes, for example tourism and flooding, were taken into account in this demonstration project.
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A sustainable fuelled vehicle for a rural community
The project demonstrated the practical aspects of the rural use of a community shared, used and administered Electric Vehicle (EV) in Cairngorms National Park (CNP).
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Adapating a local woodland management plan
It is the woodland owners who will be the ones who will need to carry out the adaptation activities in reality. Therefore, it was important for everybody involved in the project to know that the forest owners’ experienced knowledge is the base for the success of this project.
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Adapting Sledge and snow mobile tracks in Sisimiut
Reduced snow coverage and delayed ice formation across the fjord made traditional routes between settlements inaccessible. Problem areas were mapped during Clim-ATIC sponsored workshops and a hard- engineering community funded solution agreed.
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Biogas
A research project exploring the utilization possibilities of fish processing waste for energy production in Uummannaq County using bio-gas production.
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Community led sustainable flood managment
This project supported a community taking the initiative to develop a programme of flood risk reduction and adaptation projects for the entire catchment of the River Enrick
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Destination Are
The adaptation within destination Åre to changing business pressures created opportunities arising from climate change. Destination Åre in Sweden is today mainly a winter sport resort and climate change will require an adaptation process to the two parameters of a warmer climate and new travel patterns.
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Dog sledging in a melting Arctic
Research and the experiences of the locals show that the winter temperatures are getting warmer; there is a shorter winter season, less sea ice, more snow, and this has huge consequences for dog sledging, and as a consequence some towns become much more isolated.
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Future tourism prospects for Finnish Lapland
This project set out to examine how strategic tourism plans in Finnish Lapland address climate change. Tourism products were mapped in terms of their possibility to adapt to drastic or slower climate related changes, and a series of workshops on adaptation were held to provide guidance to tourism product developers.
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Lightweight mobile toursit huts
ransporting tourists to sites of interest as well as fulfilling basic needs for energy, water and sanitary facilities is very costly and technically extremely challenging. The effects of climate changes may mean sites that currently attract tourists may become much less interesting in a matter of a few years.
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Sogn og Fjordane early warning system
This project set out to develop, demonstrate, and test a location-based early warning system that made use of modern communication technologies.
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Stay and Play - selling alternative activities to the winter sports market
In response to increasingly changeable weather the Cairngorm Business Partnership, explored the potential for mobile phone technology to aid last-minute cross-selling of tourism products when winter sports are not available.
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Woodfuel in the Cairngorms
A number of targeted training and general public awareness raising events events were held throughout 2009 and 2010, designed to inform different audiences in the woodfuel supply chain, and generally increase awareness of different aspects of woodfuel supply and use.
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