CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION STRATEGIES AT A LOCAL SCALE: THE PORTUGUESE CASE STUDY

• Autor(a) principal: Ramalho, Margarida Faustino
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/159979
• topic: coastal areas; community-based adaptation; nature-based solutions; green infrastructure; Domínio/Área Científica::Engenharia e Tecnologia::Engenharia do Ambiente

Climate change adaptation has proven to be more effective on a local scale, contributing to a bottom-up approach to the problems related to the changing climate. Portugal has approximately 2 000 km of coastal line, with 75% of the population living along the coast. Therefore, this dissertation had the main objective of understanding adaptation processes at a local scale, using the Portuguese coastal municipalities as a case study. To achieve this goal climate change adaptation strategies and plans were analysed, a questionnaire to coastal municipalities was prepared, and the existence of measures rooted on nature-based solutions, green infrastructures, and community-based adaptation was adopted as a variable to study. The main conclusion from this research is that 86,7% of thein municipalities that answered the questionnaire have climate change adaptation strategies implemented or in development. Moreover, it was possible to conclude that 90% of the municipalities are familiar with the concept of nature-based solutions and all the municipalities with adaptation strategies include green infrastructure. However, it was also possible to infer that community-based adaptation is a concept that most municipalities do not know or undervalue.