What we do
COAST-SCAPES aims to strengthen climate resilience by developing sustainable solutions that increase the environmental benefits across socioeconomic sectors, different geographical regions and timeframes. The project's overarching focus is to reduce the climate resilience deficit. These measures will support coastal communities, providing them with integrated early warning systems, NbS and proactive maintenance strategies to boost the resilience of coastal areas.
How we do it
The COAST-SCAPES project is structured into 6 interconnected Work Packages (WPs) that progressively move from analysis to action, combining advanced scientific tools, local stakeholder knowledge, systemic modelling to co-design, implement, and scale climate-resilient solutions across land-coast-sea systems, and communication strategies to disseminate project results.
Looking ahead
COAST-SCAPES envisions increased transdisciplinary collaboration to foster the implementation of NbS into the resilience plans. This includes ensuring that different sectors work together to integrate NbS into planning, as well as applying shared knowledge and coordinated strategies across regions.
What guides our work
Develop a nexus analysis to gather data from 3 Core Pilots (CPs), serving as the project’s climate vulnerability hotspots. The analysis will provide information on key biophysical and socioeconomic indicators, adaptation possibilities and current established policies and governance practices.
Provide a transdisciplinary framework that evaluates and defines resilience in a practical, measurable way, looking into how land, coast and sea interact to meet environmental, social and economic goals. The framework combines traditional science methods and advanced AI computer models to simulate current and future climatic scenarios.
Proactively engage more public and private land-sea-coast stakeholders in cooperating with early and climate warning systems that enable knowledge-based decision-making. At the same time, encourage multidisciplinary social-ecological data collecting to promote the development of cross-sectoral resilience solutions.
Replicate and expand the analysis and evaluation methods that were first developed, tested and validated in the Core Pilots (CPs). These methods are further applied to the new Replicating Pilots (RPs), which already possess the necessary technology tools, funding and governance structures to assess how current adaptation efforts work.
Increase cross-sectoral collaboration, empower regions and build capacity to contribute to a real coastal transformation. Simultaneously, develop technology tools in efforts to bring real coastal transformation into reality and prepare local communities for future climate change challenges.
Increase the scale and pace of resilience plans implementation by cooperating and integrating all stakeholders. At the same time, build upon previous projects and еstablish new partnerships with other EU and international initiatives.