New systemic solutions to improve the climate resilience of coastal landscapes

The COAST-SCAPES project develops and demonstrates innovative solutions to increase the climate resilience of land-coastal-sea systems, addressing the challenges arising from climate change, ecosystem degradation and socio-economic pressures on coastal areas.

The project promotes a systemic approach that integrates different sectors and territorial scales to co-design climate resilience plans based on nature-based solutions (NbS) that reduce climate risks and improve ecosystem services. This approach combines advanced scientific tools, climate alert systems, risk analysis models and innovative governance mechanisms to facilitate the implementation of adaptation measures.

The methodology is implemented through a set of demonstration, replicator and transfer pilots that represent different climatic and socio-economic contexts in Europe and other regions of the world. These pilots allow to test and validate solutions that improve the integrated management of flows between land and sea, environmental quality and the biodiversity of coastal ecosystems.

In addition, COAST-SCAPES develops climate resilience assessment and monitoring methodologies, combining satellite data, in situ observations and advanced models to analyse the impacts of climate change and identify adaptation opportunities at different temporal and spatial scales.

The project also promotes the participation of public administrations, local communities, companies and research organizations through co-design and governance platforms, with the aim of promoting informed decisions and accelerating the implementation of climate solutions in coastal areas.

The COAST-SCAPES consortium, led by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), brings together more than 30 international organisations —research centres, public administrations, environmental bodies and technology centres— working together to develop scalable solutions for the climate resilience of coastal landscapes.

Eurecat participates in the project through its Climate Solutions and Ecosystem Services unit, which contributes expertise in climate resilience analysis and the assessment of nature-based solutions, and its Air, Water and Soil unit, which supports climate risk modelling, co-design with local stakeholders, and the integration of equity and climate justice.

General data

Project

COAST-SCAPES – Rethinking coastal landscapes with climate-resilient interventions: systemic land-to-sea solutions

Programme and call

Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Innovation Actions programme, under the HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01 – EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change call.

Project reference

101213138

Project’s website

www.coast-scapes.eu

Improves the integrated management of land-to-sea flows and the quality of coastal aquatic ecosystems through nature-based solutions.

Strengthens the resilience of coastal communities to climate change through adaptation plans co-designed with public administrations and local stakeholders.

Develops early climate warning systems, transdisciplinary indicators and adaptation strategies that reduce the risks of climate change in coastal landscapes.

Protects marine biodiversity and restores vulnerable coastal ecosystems through nature-based interventions.

Enhances the ecological connectivity between land, coast and sea, contributing to the conservation of terrestrial habitats associated with coastal systems.

 

Articula una aliança internacional entre centres de recerca, universitats, administracions públiques i comunitats locals d’Europa, Àfrica i Amèrica Llatina.