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2011 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Targeting the Maritime Dimension of Climate Change: The Role of the European Union’s Integrated Maritime Policy
Author : Antonia Zervaki
Published in: The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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The impact of climate change can be observed in the coastal, insular and marine environment in Europe. Extreme weather events such as heat waves and draught, storms, extreme precipitation and the resulting floods are already evident in different European regions. The rise of the Baltic Sea, the floods in Venice and the recent drought in Cyprus are some of the most illustrative examples of the impact of the changing patterns of global climate in Europe. The challenges for European marine ecosystems are significant: temperature changes have an impact on ecological and biological processes, leading to alterations of species’ geographic distribution, the extinction of species unable to migrate or adapt in the new conditions and the emergence of new combinations of species.