KLIFF - Climate impact and adaptation research in Lower Saxony | Umweltbundesamt

Background and Goals

KLIFF is an interdisciplinary research cooperation in which scientists from the fields of agriculture and forestry, biology, geography, engineering, marine research, meteorology, spatial planning, social sciences and economics work together to establish adaptation strategies for dealing with the effects of the climate change.

In the diverse natural and economic areas of Lower Saxony, the expected climate change will manifest itself in very different ways. The development of adaptation strategies for dealing with the climate change requires a differentiated spatial and temporal analysis of the climate change its effects, taking into account ecological and social references.

The aim of KLIFF is to increase the necessary knowledge base on the effects of of the climate change, in order to develop sustainable adaptation strategies and show ways in which these can be implemented.

The peculiarity of KLIFF lies in its region-specific integrated approach, whereby interdisciplinary work of solution concepts are developed for selected regions of Lower Saxony affected by climate change. The project focuses on the three major sectors of agriculture, forestry and water management, as well as coastal protection. An important feature of KLIFF is the integration of applied and foundational research, as well as the inclusion of practice experience.

As model regions, the coastal areas of the Aller-Leine catchment area, as well as the Harz and Heath areas were selected.

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