Climate change adaptation integration into coastal municipal development: Governance environment and communication preconditions

There was realized university-municipality research and development project by the case study research methodology, with the aim of performing an interdisciplinary situation audit on the climate change adaptation local policy existing practice conditions and development possibilities for coastal municipality of Salacgriva (Latvia), and as the result, relevant governance guidelines were elaborated [12]. Besides auditing and further on developing climate change integrations into three main sustainability dimensions, there is necessity to work with additional and separate dimension, the so called governance environment, which is to be considered the unifying horizontal element encircling all the three vertical sustainability dimensions and intentionally is to be the called "integrating medium" as well and subsequently separately studied, planned and managed. Further work was organized by North Vidzeme Biosphere Reserve administration and municipality and after public/expert hearing documents were transferred into very first municipal climate change adaptation strategy in Latvia.