RESEARCH REPORT ON EXAMINATION AND IMPLEMENTATION STATUS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN THE FIELD OF FLOOD CONTROL IN THE NETHERLANDS

Abstract

This report focuses on the Netherlands in which consistent efforts are under progress, including concrete climate change adaptation measures such as infrastructure development improvement in flood control projects. In order to grasp the progress from examination history to latest trends, we conducted a document survey and interviewed government officials, experts of flood risk assessment, and others.

As a result, we got several new findings that give important implications when we consider climate change forecasts and adaptation measures in Japan such as the method of setting four scenarios of climate change forecasting, the estimation method of loss of life and economic risk in flood risk assessment, setting of tolerance on human risk, cooperation beyond organization, and so on.