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CLISP - Climate Change Adaptation by Spatial Planning in the Alpine Space

The project is aimed at preventing, reducing and mitigating climate-change related spatial conflicts, vulnerability of spatial development and spatial structures, and to adverse climate change impacts and consequential damages and costs.

General information

CLISP is a European project funded by the Alpine Space Programme under the European Territorial Cooperation 2007-2013.

Objectives & Activities

CLISP aims at preventing, reducing and mitigating climate-change related spatial conflicts, vulnerability of spatial development and spatial structures, to adverse climate change impacts, and consequential damages and costs. As a climate change adaptation, including an integrated approach to adaptation and mitigation issues, is still a novel field for spatial planning policy and administration, CLISP is to be regarded as a strategic pilot project. CLISP intends on contributing to sustainable, climate-proof, spatial planning and territorial development in the Alpine Space by being committed to the following main objectives:

Developing new, climate-proof planning strategies for sustainable and resilient spatial development on transnational, national and regional levels.
Developing and applying a transferable concept and methodology of regional spatial vulnerability assessment and providing knowledge of vulnerabilities in model regions.
Evaluating the 'climate change fitness' of spatial planning systems (legal and institutional framework, instruments, procedures) and identifying strengths, weaknesses and enhancement options.
Promoting risk governance approaches to the management of climate-related risks by conducting risk communication activities in model regions and by investigating the performance of existing risk management systems.
Establishing a transnational, expert network on spatial planning and climate change.
Raising awareness of policy and decision-makers, planning authorities, stakeholders and the public for climate-related risks as well as the need for adaptation, stimulating implementation processes, and transferring results and experiences to the entire Alpine Space and other regions.

Duration, geographical coverage and consortium

September 2008 through September 2011
14 project partners from Austria (6), Italy (3), Germany (1), Slovenia (1), Switzerland (2) and the Principality of Liechtenstein (1) including international organisations, national and regional government authorities, national agencies, provinces/regions, research institutions and institutes of applied sciences
7 official project observers

Lead Partner

Umweltbundesamt GmbH / Federal Environment Agency Austria

Partners

BMLFUW - Bundesministerium für Land- und Forstwirtschaft, Umwelt und Wasserwirtschaft, Sektion Forst / Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water Management, Forest Department
Salzburg - Amt der Salzburger Landesregierung, Abteilung Raumplanung / Regional Government of Salzburg, Department of Spatial Planning
Steiermark - Amt der Steiermärkischen Landesregierung, Abteilung 16 - Landes - und Gemeindeentwicklung / Office of the State Government of Styria, Department 16 - State Planning and Regional Development
Oberösterreich - Amt der Oberösterreichischen Landesregierung, Abteilung Raumordnung / Office of the Government of Upper Austria; Department of Spatial Planning
STMWIVT - Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wirtschaft, Infrastruktur, Verkehr und Technologie, Abtl. 5 Raumplanung und Fachplanung II / Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology, Department for Regional Planning and Development
MATT - Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Tutela del Territorio e del Mare / Italian Ministry for the Environment, the Land and the Sea
EURAC - Accademia Europea di Bolzano / European Academy of Bolzano
Alessandria - Provincia di Alessandria / Province of Alessandria
UIRS - Urbanistini inštitut Republike Slovenije / Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia
UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme, Interim Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention
ARE - Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung, Strategiegruppe Politik des Ländlichen Raumes / Swiss Federal Office for Spatial Development, Strategy Group Politics of Rural Areas
Graubünden -Amt für Raumentwicklung / Grisons, Office for Spatial Development
Liechtenstein, Fürstentum Liechtenstein, Ressort Umwelt, Raum, Land- und Waldwirtschaft / Principality of Liechtenstein, Ministry of Environmental Office, Land Use Planning, Agriculture and Forestry