In recent decades an increasing body of observations gave a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system (IPCC, 2001). In a densely populated and highly industrialized country such as the
Netherlands
, the measures to mitigate and to cope with climate change will have to compete with other claims on space and infrastructure, and will impact heavily on the sectors like water management, agriculture and nature conservations, transport and energy. These kind of issues were discussed during the national conference "Climate changes spatial planning".
