ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses various threats arising from climate change in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) such as extreme temperatures, droughts, forest fires, storm surges, winter storms and floods. These issues and problems were taken into consideration in the project 'Developing Policies and Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the BSR—Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change in the Baltic Sea Region (ASTRA)', which was co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund through the INTERREG IIIB Baltic Sea Programme. The ASTRA project had its foundation in a successful previous European project titled SEAREG, which assessed the impacts of future sea level rise in the BSR. Resulting from the project work, the project partners designed recommendations for policy-makers, revealing a rage of starting points as to how adaptation strategies to climate change could be developed. Tasks concerning climate change adaptation on a regional and local level are adjusting general guidelines to local needs and implementing adaptation measures.
