Adequação das estratégias e planos de adaptação climática de países atlânticos quanto ao gerenciamento de riscos de eventos climáticos extremos

Resumen

Populations in coastal areas suffer and will suffer more from problems associated with extreme weather events and loss of biodiversity. Therefore, planning instruments are necessary help populations to these consequences. The aim of this study was to evaluate coastal management and climate change documents from thirty Atlantic countries. For that, those documents were evaluated from 32 indicators. Although 66% of the selected countries have documents with values ​​above the average, several indicators were disclosed with low breadth and depth. The indicator Emergency preparedness and response procedures for extreme events was insufficient for most countries.