The Role of Regional Policy in Addressing the Effects of Climate Change in Outermost Regions
Study
15-07-2011
This study explores potential effects of climate change on the Outermost regions and presents the measures and initiatives within EU Regional Policy supporting mitigation and/or adaption of these regions to climate change. The objective of the study is to enlarge the knowledge about potential threats of climate change in the Outermost regions and to assess the role of Regional Policy in this context.
Study
Executive summary
External author
Bernd Schuh (Österreichisches Institut für Raumplanung - ÖIR) ; Herbert Formeyer and Heidelinde Trimmel (Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - BOKU)
About this document
Publication type
Policy area
Keyword
- accounting
- BUSINESS AND COMPETITION
- climate change
- cost-effectiveness analysis
- deterioration of the environment
- ECONOMICS
- ENVIRONMENT
- environmental policy
- environmental protection
- EU environmental policy
- EU finance
- EU regional policy
- EUROPEAN UNION
- executive power and public service
- natural disaster
- overseas countries and territories
- peripheral region
- POLITICS
- regions and regional policy
- Structural Funds