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Key documents

Federal level (Bund)

• Implementation of  the ICZM recommendation (2006) English summary

• Spatial planning at sea? Spatial strategies for the coastal space (2002)

• The Future Oceans – Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour (2006)

• Perspectives of Spatial Development in Germany (2006)

Ideals and strategies for spatial planning in Germany (2006)

ICZM and spatial planning in Germany (2006)

Flood mitigation and precaution manual for contructions (2006)

State level (Länder)

Land Niedersachsen and Land Bremen
• Generalplan Kustenschutz Niedersachsen / Bremen (2007)  

• Towards a Generalplan Kustenschutz (2006) / Measures / Planning

• Masterplan Flood Protection in Bremen (2002)

• Development of 10 principles of effective coastal management (2006)

• Spatial planning policy in Niedersachsen (2005) English summary

• Generalplan Kustenschutz Weser - Ems / Niedersachsen (1997) 

• Generalplan Kustenschutz Niedersachsen (1973) 


Hamburg
• Masterplan Hamburg (2000) 

• Overview flood protection in Hamburg (2006)

• Flood management contruction programme (2007)   Overview map:

• Storm floods in Hamburg since 1750 (2004)

• Storm floods, the case of Hamburg (2006)


Land Schleswig-Holstein
• Generalplan kustenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (2001)   Overview map:

• Spatial planning of coasts and sea Schleswig-Holstein, IM (2005)

• Parliament Q&A on coastal defence measures (2006)

• ICZM in Schleswig-Holstein, position paper and outlook (2004) 

• A new coastal defence master plan for Schleswig-Holstein (2004)

• ICZM in Schleswig-Holstein, background documents (2001)  (2002)

• Appraisal for areas endangered by storm surges in Schleswig-  
Holstein (2002)

• Targets and goals of coastal defence in Schleswig-Holstein  (2002)
 


Further reading

• Coastal management in Germany (Coastline special 2007)

• Regional Foresight & Organisational learning processes in ICZM (2006)

• Risk analysis applied in ICZM (2004)

• Measuring sustainable development on the coast (2005) (2006)

• Consequence of climate change for coastal areas (2007)

• Retrospective analysis of large scale planning procedures under the      perspective of their ICZM-compatibility (2004)

• Spatial planning inventory for the German coast and sea area (2006)

• Spatial planning as precautionary measure for coastal defence 
management, Master Thesis (2004)

• Comrisk Case study flood risk assessment Langeoog (2005)

• Open communication of climate change and flood risk (2005)

• Climate impact assessment and coastal risk, dissertation (2004)

• How safe are Germany's dikes? (2005)

• The future of historically developed summerdikes (2002)

• Coastal defence, current and future measures (2002)

• Managed realignment, comparison between England and Germany (2002)

• Storm floods and coastal defence in Nordfriesland (2003)

• Storm floods since 1164, NLWKN (2005)

• The Wadden Sea region: a regional socio-economical analysis (2004)


Relevant weblinks

Federal ministry for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety
• Federal environment agency
• Federal office for building and regional planning
Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Germany
German advisory council on global change / WBGU
German national committee on global change research / NKGCF
German alliance of water management associations
German committee for disaster reduction
Land Schleswig-Holstein
Minsitry of Agriculture, Environment and Rural areas
Ministry of internal affairs Schleswig-Holstein
Spatial planning in Schleswig-Holstein
ICZM in Schleswig-Holstein
Coastal defence in Schleswig-Holstein
Land Niedersachsen
Ministry of Environment Niedersachsen
Ministry of Rural Areas, Food and Agriculture Niedersachsen
Ministry of Internal affairs Niedersachsen
Spatial planning in Niedersachsen
Niedersachsen Coastal Management Agency / NLWKN
City of Hamburg
City of Bremen
Wasserverbandstag E.v. (e.g. dike boards)
LAWA (federal states working group on water issues)
Potsdam Institute for climate impact research
Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
German development institute
Flood risk protection at the Niederrhein
North Frisian Halligen
National parks German wadden sea
Federal institute for hydrology
Coastal Futures project
DEKLIM (German climate research programme)
Intact (international network to advance climate talks)
MERK (micro scale coastal risk assessment)
KRIM (interdisciplinary research on climate change and coastal protection)
Coastal Research Centre / Forschungs Zentrum Küste (FZK)
NOKIS (coastal network of metadata)
German coastal engineering research council


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