Worldwide initiatives
• UNFCCC (united nations framework convention on climate change)
• UNFCCC national communications (eu - nl - uk - dk - de - be)
• UNEP (united nations environment programme)
• UNEP / Grid arendal (environmental cartographics for policy)
• UNDP-GEF (un development programme)
• UNESCO world water assessment programme
• UNESCO-IHE (institute for water education)
• IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change)
• IPCC third assessment report on climate change
• UNISDR (international strategy for disaster reduction)
• WWC / WWF4 (world water council / world water forum 4)
• GWP (global water partnership)
• WMO (world meteorological organization)
• GCOS (global climate observing system)
• CICERO (centre for international climate research)
• ICHARM (centre for water hazard and risk management)
• OECD (climate change site)
• GMES (global monitoring for environment and security)
• LOICZ (land-ocean interactions in the coastal zone)
• IOC (intergovernmental oceanographic commission)
• OSPAR (commission for the protection of the marine environment)
• ICES (international council for exploration of the sea)
• CPWC (co-operative programme on water and climate)
• AIACC (assessments of climate change impacts and adaption)
• IIED (International institute for environment and development)
• APFM (associated programme on flood management)
• Survas (synthesis and upscaling sea level rise studies)
• Dartmouth global flood observatory
• PSMSL (permanent service for mean sea level)

Europe (policy)
• Flood risk policy
• Coastal zone policy
• Regional policy
• Water policy
• Climate policy
• Marine policy
• Environmental assessment policy
• Spatial information policy
• Prelex (monitoring eu decision making)

Europe (institutions and networks)
• EEA (european environment agency)
• ETC (european topic centre on air and climate Change)
• Eurostat (european statistics)
• EUROGOOS (european association for oceanographic agencies)
• ESEAS (european sea level service)
• ESPON (european spatial planning observation network)
• JRC (joint research centre of the european commission)
• ETAP (eu environmental technologies action plan)
• EXCIFF (exchange network on flood forecasting and early warning)
• EXCIMAP (exchange network on flood mapping) - no site yet
• EFAS (european flood alert system)
• EWP (european water partnership)
• ECSA (european estuarine and coastal sciences association)

Europe (research and projects)
• European climate assessment & dataset 
• European R&D (cordis)
• European marine science & technology programme (mast)
• Eurocoast (eu coastal association for science and technology)

• Eurosion (coastal erosion management in the eu) / (60 case studies)
• ConScience (concepts for coastal erosion management)
• Floodsite (integrated floodrisk analysis in the eu)
• NeWater (new approaches to adaptive watermanagement)
• Era-net Crue (consolidate existing European flood research)
• Encora (eu platform for coastal research and co-ordination)
• Mitch (mitigation of climate induced natural hazards)
• Sea-search (eu gateway to marine data & information)
• Motiive (gmes-inspire marine date harmonisation)
• Coastview (coastal video monitoring for iczm)
• Oroma (optical and radar monitoring for coastal management)
• Ensembles (predictions of climate change and impacts)
• Dinas-Coast (vulnerability of coastal zones to climate change)
• Spicosa (science and policy integration for coastal system assessment)
• Coastlearn (international iczm training)
• Euwareness (european water regimes and sustainability)
• Integration4water (integration eu water research)
• Flood Relief (real time decision support on flood forecasting)
• Actif (technological innovation in flood forecasting)
• Response (responding to risks of climate change)
• Circle (climate impact research coordination for a larger europe)
• Ecoflood (natural flood reduction strategies)
• Humor (long-term coastal evolution)
• Smurf (sustainable management of urban rivers and floodplains)
• MaxWave (extreme wave research for deep and shallow waters)
• Anfas (data fusion for flood analysis and decision support)
• EFFS (european river flood forecasting system project)
• Eurotas (european river flood risk assessment system)
• Eurocat (eu river catchments changes and impacts on the coast)
• Fame (flood risk and damage assessment with earth observation tools)
• Floodrelief (integrating techniques for real time flood decision support )
• Impact (extreme flood processes and uncertainty)
• Meffe (satellite and radar techniques in flood forecasting)
• Swurve (sustainable water: uncertainty, risk and vulnerability)
• Mice (modelling the impacts of climate extremes)
• Stardex (regional downscaling of scenarios of extreme events)
• Prudence (regional scenarios and uncertainties of climate change)
• WDNH (weather driven natural hazards: prediction and mitigation)
• Atlantis (adaptation to worst case scenario climate change)
• OPW - Flooding (Irish public awearness site)

Europe (interregional programmes and projects)
• Interreg 3a Programme (anglo french)
• Interreg 3a Programme (ems dollart region)
• Interreg 3b North Sea Programme
• Interreg 3b North West Europe Programme
• Interreg 3b Atlantic area programme
• Interreg 3b Baltic Sea Programme
• Interreg 3b Northern periphery programme
• Interreg 3b Cadses programme
• Interreg 3c North East South West Programme
• Irma Interreg rhine-meuse programme
• Interact programme (building on Interreg 1&2 into 3)

• Wadden Sea Forum (sustainable development of the wadden sea region)
• FrAme (flood risk management in estuaries)
• Comcoast (combined functions in coastal defence zones)
• Flows (floodplain land use optimising workable sustainability)
• Escape (co-operation and planning in emergencies for coastal flooding)
• Chain of Safety (contingency planning for flooding)
• Espace (european spatial planning, adapting to climate events)
• Comrisk (common strategies to reduce the risk of coastal floods)
• Floodscape (flood management by making space for water)
• Sail (iczm in the southern north sea)
• Cycleau (finding innovative ways of managing the water environment)
• Corepoint (coastal research policy integration)
• Scaldit (cleaner and safer scheldt estuary)
• Aware (attention to warning and readiness in emergencies)
• Freude am Fluss (space for river planning methods)
• Messina (sharing information on near-shore areas)
• Deduce (evaluation model for sustainable coastal zones)
• Wadsis (demonstrator for a transnational wadden sea info service)
• Lancewadplan (landscape and cultural heritage in the wadden region)
• Seareg (sea level change in the baltic sea region)
• Flapp (flood awareness & prevention policy in border areas)
• Norcoast (iczm in the north sea region)
• Plancoast (adriatic, baltic & black sea spatial planning in iczm)
• Cadsealand (mediterranian and black sea coastal state and evolution)
• Floodmed (adriatic, baltic and black sea flood mitigation and prevention)
• Coastsust (baltic sea region: coastal sustainability as a challenge)
• CoastAtlantic (iczm in the atlantic area)
• J.A.F. (joint approach for managing river floods)
• BAR (beaches at risk)
• TIMIS flood (transnational internet map information system on flooding)
• SDF project (sustainable development of flood plains)
• Noah (international river flood info and warning system)
• Viking (crossborder river contingency management)
• Ella (river flood management by transnational spatial planning)
• Sumad (sustainable management of diked river flood plains)
• Astra project (climate change adaptation in the baltic sea region)
• Baltcoast (iczm in the baltic sea region)
• Coastman (iczm in the baltic sea region)
• Procoast (harmonisation of uses and interests in the baltic sea region)
• Time 2c (structures for improvement of cooperation of sea divided regions)
• Norvision (vision on spatial development in the north sea region)
• Geoshare (north sea spatial data infrastructure)
• HarBasins (harmonised river basins strategies)
• NoLimp (north sea region implementation water framework directive)
• CoPraNet (coastal practice network)
• Florispre (community based approach to educate citizens on flood risks)
• Nofdp (nature-oriented flood damage prevention)
• Safer (strategies and actions for flood emergency risk management)
• Sand (flood alleviation by use of mineral extraction pits)
• New! delta (ports and nature)
• Safety @ Sea (maritime safety at the north sea)
• Branch project (biodiversity, spatial planning & climate change)
• Nortrail (north sea walking trail)
• Water front communities project (nine cities in the north sea region)
• Water cities international (upgrade water functions in urban areas)
• P.o.w.e.r (pushing offshore wind energy regions)
• Trust (using water in spatial planning)
• Warela (water retention by land use)
• Pure north sea (spatial planning with water)
• Isla (sustainable development and spatial planning of islands)
• North Sea Cycle Route (cycle trail)

Europe (interregional co-operation and networks)
• North Sea Commission
• Wadden sea trilateral co-operation
• Trilateral expert group on coastal protection and sea level rise 
• International Scheldt committee
• Proses (scheldt estuary development outline 2010)
• Euregio Scheldemond
• Scheldt estuary information centre
• International commission for protection of the Rhine river
• CPMR (conference of peripheral maritime regions)
• European Climate Forum (joint sustainability studies)
• KRING of coastal defence engineers
• North Sea coastal managers group
• Coastnet (international networking organisation)
• EUCC - the coastal union (coastal conservation network)

Denmark [see: national files]
• Danish Coastal Authority
• Danish Meteorological Institute
• Danish Forest and Nature Agency
• Ministry of Transport and Energy
• Ministry of the Environment
• Spatial Planning departement
• Danish association for local authorities
• The Sønderjylland County
• The Ribe County
• The Ringkjøbing County
• The Danish Board of Technology
• Statistics Denmark
• Nature protection Act
• Environmental assessment institute
• National strategy for sustainable development
• Danish climate and development action programme
• Danish nature and environment policy (1995)
• Danish 92 Group (Forum for sustainable development)
• GEUS (Geological survey of denmark and greenland)
• Geocentre Kopenhagen
• Inspire Denmark (infrastructure for spatial information in the eu)
• SusNordic Gateway
• Conwoy project (climate change for marine ecosystems)
• Dancore (danish network for coastal research)

Belgium [see: national files]
• Ministry of the Flemish Community
• Province of West Flanders
• Province of East Flanders
• Flemish environmental departement
• Waterways and seachannel NV (W&Z)
• Port of Antwerp
• Municipality of Oostende
• The coast looks ahead (iczm campaign)
• State of the Environment report (MIRA)
• Spatial planning Oostende urban area
• Spatial planning in Flanders
• Provincial Spatial Structure Plan (PRS)  (map)
• Implementation processes of spatial planning Flanders
• Sigmaplan
• Real time water levels
• Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
• The Coastal Atlas Belgium
• The Province of West Flanders
• Flemish NGO consortium on sustainable development
• Flemish co-ordination point for ICZM
• Flemish committee on integrated water management
• Flanders Marine Institute
• CCI-HYDR: Climate Change Impacts on Hydrology
• ADAPT: Towards an integrated policy instrument for flooding
• CLIMAR: Impacts of climate change and adaptation of marine activities
• Bencore (Belgian network for coastal research)

The Netherlands [see: national files]
• Ministry of transport, public works and water management / VenW
• Ministry of housing, spatial planning and the environment / VROM
• Ministry of the interior and kingdom relations / BZK
• Ministry of agriculture, nature and food quality / LNV
• Rijkswaterstaat Agency / RWS
• Institute for coastal and marine management / RWS RIKZ
• Institute for inland water management / RWS RIZA
• Road and hydraulic engineering division / RWS DWW
• Expertise Network for Flood Protection / ENW
• Advisory Committee Water / ACW
• Institute for public health and environment / RIVM
• Netherlands environmental assessment agency / MNP
• Netherlands institute for spatial research / RPB
• Netherlands bureau for economic policy analysis / CPB
• Netherlands institute for physical safety / NIBRA
• Institute for safety, security and crisis management / COT
• Scientific council for government policy / WRR
• Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute / KNMI
• Institute for environmental studies / IVM
• IPO (inter-provincial consultation)
• Province of Groningen
• Province of Fryslân
• Province of North Holland / (coastal vision 2050)
• Province of South Holland / (coastal vision 2050)
• Province of Zeeland / (weak links project Zeeland)
• Union of Waterboards
• NWP (Netherlands Water Partnership)
• Spatial planning policy (national)
• Progress reports of national watermanagement (water in beeld)
• Coastal policy (kustzonebeleid.nl)
• Guidance document for safety of sandy coasts
• Project Zeeweringen (coastal defencees)
• Helpdesk flood defence (waterkeren)
• Project VNK (or FLORIS: national flood risk assessment)
• Project space for the river
• Dutch Storm surge warning system / SVSD
• Flood information system / HIS
• Water data (online water data)
• Wave data (wave monitoring information)
• Tide data (predictions from dutch gauges on the north sea)
• Deltaworks online
• Deltaworks online: the 1953 storm flood
• Maeslant storm flood barrier
• Lowest place in the Netherlands
• Disastermanagement and Safety Chain / BZK
• Netherlands live with water (awareness campaign)
• Droppie Water (water education for children)
• Waterland (water information network) 
• Waterforum (water related website for professionals in water management)
• Climate Changes Spatial Planning Research programme
• Climate change communication platform
• Water-front (platform for r&d for waterconstruction and development)
• Interwad (gateway for information about the wadden sea)
• Fresh-Salt (salt marsh and wetland restoration works)
• Photographs of the entire Dutch coast
• Netcoast (guide to integrated coastal zone management)
• Coastal research (utrecht university)
• NCK (Netherlands centre for coastal research)

Germany [see: national files]
• Federal ministry for the environment, nature conservation and nuclear safety
• Federal environment agency
• 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
• 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)
• German committee for disaster reduction
• 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

United Kingdom [see national files]
• Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)
• Environment Agency (EA)
• Environment Agency (Floodline)
• Department for communities and local government
• Local Government Association
• Health protection agency (floods)
• UK resilience (civil protection)
• English Nature
• Anglian coastal authorities group
• Cardigan bay coastal authorities group
• South Downs coastal authorities group
• South East coastal authorities group
• Thames estuary partnership
• Thames Gateway development
• Essex estuaries initiative
• Isle of Wight centre for the coastal environment
• Local Government Association: coastal issues interest group
• Channel coastal observatory
• Association of drainage authorities
• Foresight Flooding and coastal defence
• Shoreline management plans
• Futurecoast (coastal evolutionary tendencies)
• Living with the sea (sustainable long term iczm)
• Met Office
• CIWEM (institute of water and environmental management)
• Hadley centre for climate prediction and research
• Tyndall centre for climate change research
• Flood hazard research centre (fhrc)
• Proudman oceanographic laboratory
• RASP project (flood risk assessment for strategic planning)
• Floodranger (educational flood management game)
• Scopac (Standing conference on coastline problems)
• UK Climate impacts programme / UKCIP
• London climate change partnership
• South East climate change partnership
• South West climate change impacts partnership
• Tomorrow's climate, Today's challenge (communicating climate change)
• UK legislation
• Partnership sustainable development in england's northwest
• English heritage (protecting england's historic environment)
• MCCIP (marine climate change impacts partnership)
• Association of British insurers (flooding)
• BBC: Flooding, What to do?
• CIRIA (repairs and restoration after flooding)
• ROSPA (royal society for the prevention of accidents)
• Environment and human behaviour
• National Flood Forum
• Flood risk management research consortium
• FPA (flood protection association)
• NERC (natural environment research council)
• ICE (institution of civil engineers)
• MSG (marine studies group)
• COZONE (national coastal engineering network)

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