**5.1 Policy options for local level implementation**


### **5.2 Policy options for national level implementation**

1.National climate and environmental risk assessments should be carried out with emphasis on sectorial and local individualities and priorities, but using the system approach. This approach is necessary because it will help ensure that specific adaptation strategies are not considered in isolation, but as part of wide-ranging concerns that takes cognisance of the interrelatedness and interdependencies within and between all aspects of the environment.

