Climate change affects the environments of humans and nature. Many countries, including Korea, are trying to develop climate change adaptation strategies to minimize the adverse impacts of climate change. The impacts of climate change differ depending on not just the degree of climate change, but also social and economic circumstances.
To that end, measures for adaptation to climate change are currently being promoted by the Korean Government. The current adaptation policy, however, is scattered across multiple ministries and the policy is not implemented cohesively.
In this study, a risk-impact assessment is conducted to evaluate the adaptation policy in the water management sector and a policy proposal is made to establish adaptation measures in terms of integrated water resource management using the evaluation results.
This study is deemed to be a leading research as the quantitative climate change risk function deduced in this study is capable of comparing not only the risk characteristics, direction of adaptation and setting goals of a particular system but also the relative extents of the risks of Korea`s water management systems. Therefore, the study is expected to contribute to the prioritization of adaptation measures.