Coast-Scapes (rethinking COASTal landSCAPES with climate-resilient interventions: systemic land-to-sea solutions) proposes to rethink land-coast-sea systems under climate change for enhanced resilience and biodiversity gains. We shall co-design systemic resilience solutions for coastal landscapes using transdisciplinary indicators, early and climatic warnings, business models and knowledge-based maintenance to reduce climatic risks and improve land to sea environments. We propose nature-based-solutions (NbS) suited to a broad range of coastal archetypes, governance, climates and resilience deficits, sequenced along resilience-through-adaptation pathways. Such solutions, supported by governance transformation and cross-sectoral engagement, will be applied by regions and communities empowered by an unprecedented combination of technical tools, financial models and social commitment. Coast-Scapes will promote NbS for a climatic resilience compatible with biodiversity gains and existing infrastructure constraints, seeking a reduced environmental footprint under natural resources that are scarce in quantity and quality. Social and technical innovation, associated to a governance shift, will make systemic resilience operational and fill the implementation gap at a pace commensurate with climate change acceleration. The selected Core Pilot regions/communities feature climate sensitive natural/human assets, controlled by land-coast-sea interactions and acting as large-scale demonstrators of scalable resilience plans for replication and export. These plans aggregate Science, Policy, Industry, Society and Environment actors with administrations responsible for local implementation, organised as resilience platforms and linked in a Regions and Communities Board. Resilience solutions will be monitored/maintained/marketed with the project, new standards and business models, for a resilience build up commensurate with unfavourable climate/human stressors.
48 months from 01/09/2025 to 31/08/2029
General aims
Coast-Scapes seeks to develop and transfer climate resilient solutions, often discussed but seldom implemented in a systemic manner, for the land-coast-sea continuum, demonstrating co-benefits across: a) socioeconomic sectors (including the fourth); b) geographical domains (land to sea); c) temporal scales (short to long). By combining Core Pilots to demonstrate and implement systemic solutions, Replicating Pilots to export resilience plans (without implementation) and Transfer Pilots to prove the scalability of the approach, Coast-Scapes supposes a quantum leap for climate resilience. The proposed solutions, sequenced to look for synergies under present and future climate challenges (e.g., pollution, habitat degradation or job loss), align land-to-sea adaptation with climate mitigation, targeting a proactive risk reduction.
CMCC role:
Task3.4 Leader – Increasing foresight and risk preparedness with implementation guidelines and resilience standards
Activities
Coast-Scapes addresses climate challenges with a sequenced approach that combines; a) systemic land-coast-sea analyses under present/future conditions (WP1); b) evaluation of current resilience sectoral solutions across sectors and scales (WP2); c) foresight to co-design and maintain resilience solutions with increased TRL, by stakeholders empowered with new techniques, funding and governance (WP3); d) replication and transfer of systemic resilience plans in a large enough set of Pilots to provide generic guidelines and standards (WP4); e) transdisciplinary capacity building and governance transformation to implement resilience plans (WP5); f) cooperation to support the European drive towards climate resilience aligned with Adaptation/Mitigation targets and Missions (WP6).
Expected results
a) Overcoming limitations in land-coast-sea system analyses (interconnecting scales and sectors)
b) Overcoming resilience evaluation uncertainty (transdisciplinary indicators, warnings and intervals)
c) Overcoming barriers to co-design and implement NbS resilience plans (tools, data, history)
d) Developing systemic resilience and proactive maintenance (digital and transdisciplinary capacities)
e) Replicating and transferring cross-sectoral resilience (export, feedback and blue growth)
f) Funding and engagement for resilience solutions/plans (bankable business models and new capacities
g) Empowering stakeholders for resilience build up and implementation (transformative shift)
Partners
2. FUNDACIO EURECAT (EUT)
3. FUNDACION NUEVA CULTURA DEL AGUA (NCA)
4. MEDIDAS DE ADAPTACION COSTERA SOSTENIBLE SL (MAC),
5. INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE-DEZVOLTARE PENTRU GEOLOGIE SI GEOECOLOGIE MARINA-GEOECOMAR (GEM)
6. CORILA – CONSORZIO PER IL COORDINAMENTO DELLE RICERCHE INERENTI AL SISTEMA LAGUNARE DI VENEZIA (COR)
7. FONDAZIONE CENTRO EURO-MEDITERRANEOSUI CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI (CMCC)
8. THE SCOTTISH ASSOCIATION FOR MARINESCIENCE LBG (SMS)
9. ROYAL MELBOURNE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SPAIN SL (RME)
10. UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO (UA)
11. PENSOFT PUBLISHERS (PSF)
12. LUDWIG-MAXIMILIANS-UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN (LMU)
13. NIEDERSACHSISCHER LANDESBETRIEB FUR WASSERWIRTSCHAFT, KUSTENUND NATURSCHUTZ (FSK)
14. UNIVERSIDADE SAVE (USV)
15. FUNDACION UNIVERSIDAD DEL NORTE (UNR)
16. UNIVERSITE MOHAMMED PREMIER 1 – UMP (MIU)
17. UNIVERSITE ASSANE SECK DE ZIGUINCHOR (UAS)
18. GCF – GLOBAL CLIMATE FORUM EV (GCF)
19. HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM HEREON GMBH (HON)
20. ODESKIY NACIONALNIY UNIVERSITET IMENI I.I. MECHNIKOVA (ONU)
21. CONSORCIO CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE INVESTIGACION DE LOS RECURSOS COSTEROS (CII)
22. CAN THO UNIVERSITY (CTU)
23. MINISTERO DELLE INFRASTRUTTURE E DEI TRASPORTI (PRV)
24. AGENCIA ESTATAL CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS (IMS)
25. UNIVERSIDAD SAN FRANCISCO DE QUITO (USF)
26. ASOCIATIA WWF ROMANIA (WWR)
27. ASOCIACION PARA LA DEFENSA DE LA NATURALEZA (WWE)