Vulnerability Assessment
Helsinki - Impact Assessment extensive version
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
Although having a long shoreline with countless islands, Helsinki lies on a relatively high elevation, thus in general being less vulnerable to coastal flooding...
Helsinki Impact assessment
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
Although having a long shoreline with countless islands, Helsinki lies on a relatively high elevation, thus in general being less susceptible to coastal flooding...
Helsinki - Vulnerability
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
The topography of Helsinki in general makes the city little vulnerable towards flooding. Only few low-lying areas will experience a notable higher flood risk due to sea level rise...
Helsinki - Coping Capacity
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
In Helsinki sea level rise came first into discussion in 1989. As a result the lowest elevation level in Ruoholahti residential area was set to from 2 to 3 meters when newly built up in the 90's...
Knowledge Base
The Finnish Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change
Lasse Peltonen | 2005-01-01
Recently, climate policy has shifted towards adaptation strategies, which are seen as necessary despite possible advances in efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. In Finland, this shift and growing interest in climate adaptation is marked by the publication of the National Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change (Marttila et al., 2005)...
Helsinki Vulnerability - Winter Storm 2005
Simo Haanpää | 2005-03-30
The winter storm of 8th-9th January 2005 served as a good example on the vulnerability of Helsinki in case of a storm surge. As the sea level reached a new record-height, a wide range of actors both had to show their abilities on minimizing the damage on a short-term basis and to engage themselves on a discussion on the lessons learned...
Shorline Construction – A Challenge Related to Se Level Rise
Lasse Peltonen | 2005-03-23
Finland has a border of 1100 kilometers in the Baltic Sea. The coastal waters are quite shallow and there are numerous islands, especially on the South-Western archipelago that alone has over 17 000 islands. Some 37% of the Finnish coastal shoreline is built up, mainly by summer cottages. (Granö et al., 1995.)..
Discussion Platform
Communication of Sea Level Rise in Helsinki
Samuli Lehtonen | 2005-01-01
The City of Helsinki can be seen administratively as a complex system and hierarchy, in which communication on sea level rise related issues is transferred from e.g. science to planning or technical infrastructure decisions to the city planning department...
