Climate Resilience for Catchment Methods Guidance Tool

This Guidance Tool allows practitioners to assess the likely resilience of river basin management measures to future climate conditions, providing quick and easy access to the climate resilience score of river basin management measures. Why would I need this Guidance Tool? A large range of catchment measures can be implemented or considered for river basin management in order to help you achieve the objectives of the Water Framework Directive. This tool will help you: • Understand how resilient measures are to changes in temperature and rainfall due to climate change. • Establish which measures are most likely to help reduce the more harmful effects of climate change on the hydrological cycle. • Implement appropriate adaptation responses within catchment management. The Guidance Tool is free to download. The download of the EA Climate Resilience of Catchment Methods Guidance Tool zip file places all the files necessary to use the tool in a directory. Please refer to the ‘Read me’ file first and be aware that on opening the main “GUIDANCE DOCUMENT” in Microsoft Excel, you will need to ensure macros are enabled. An icon is not created in the windows Start Menu or included on the desktop. Please note the information supplied in the zip file is for guidance purposes only and is not intended to fully substitute for professional advice. The user is responsible for interpretation and use of information from the Guidance Tool and for any commercial decisions taken based on any of the outputs. Cascade Consulting excludes liability, to the fullest extent permitted by law for any direct, indirect or consequential loss, damage, costs or expenses in any way caused by the downloading of this file.

Download Climate Resilience for Catchment Methods Guidance Tool.zip