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Vulnerability to climate changeregions around Barcelona, Venice and Ljubljana. Inaddition, southern Europe would be more affectedbecause of the more compact urban form of itscities and greater increases in hot summer days. Incontrast, the population of most non‐coastal areas ofEurope is potentially not or only marginally affectedby climate change and some regions are evenprojected to have positive impacts due to decliningflood hazards, for example in Poland and Portugal.The potential cultural impacts of climate changefocused on tangible cultural assets, becauseintangibles like norms and attitudes wereconsidered part of the adaptive capacity of a region.More precisely, ESPON Climate analysed whatimpact the projected climatic changes may haveon the 350 UNESCO World Heritage Sites andapproximately 20 000 museums in Europe. Notsurprisingly the impact patterns for these culturalMap 5.4Potential environmental and economic impact of climate changeCanariasCanariasMartiniqueMartiniqueGuadeloupeRèunionGuadeloupeRèunionGuyaneGuyaneMadeiraMadeiraAcoresAcores© IRPUD, ESPON Climate Project, 20110 250 500km© NU & IRPUD, ESPON Climate Project, 20110 250 500kmPotential environmental impact of climate changeHighest negative impactMedium negative impactLow negative impactNo/marginal impactNo dataReduced dataPotential economic impact of climate changeHighest negative impactMedium negative impactLow negative impactNo/marginal impactLow positive impactMedium positive impactHigh positive impactNo dataReduced dataNote:Normalised potential impacts aggregated from individual impact indicators on protected natural areas, forest fire‐proneforests, soil organic carbon and soil erosion (environmental), and agriculture and forestry, energy production andconsumption as well as summer and winter tourism (economic).Source: ESPON Climate, 2011.Climate change, impacts and vulnerability in Europe 2012219