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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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