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

General Information

COAST-SCAPES 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 with 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 unfavorable climate/human stressors.
This project is funded within the Horizon Europe Mission Adaptation to Climate Change.

EU-Programme Acronym and Subprogramme Area	HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-09
Project Type	Innovation Action (IA)
Contract Number	Grant Agreement 101213138
Co-ordinator	Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (ES)

Funding for the Project (€)	Funding for Hereon (€)
8,565,911	564,500

Contact Person at Hereon

Dr. Joanna Staneva, Institute of Coastal Systems - Analysis and Modeling, Hydrodynamics and Data Assimilation, KSD, Phone: +49 (0)4152 87-1804 E-mail contact

Participants

Agencia Portuguesa do Ambiente IP (PT), Asociacion Para La Defensa De La Naturaleza (ES), Asociatia WWF Romania (RO), CAN THO University (VN), Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici SCARL (IT), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (ES), Consorcio Centro Internacional de Investigacion de los Recursos Costeros (ES), Consortium for the Management of the Centre of Coordination of Research on the Venice Lagoon System (IT), Fundacio EURECAT (ES), Fundacion Nueva Culturadel Agua (ES), Fundacion Universidad Del Norte (CO), GCF-Global Climate Forum EV (DE), Istituto Nazionale Di Oceanografia E Di Geofisica Sperimentale Ogs (IT), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (DE), Medidas de Adaptacion Costera Sostenible Sl (ES), Ministerio Para La Transicion Ecologica Y El Reto Demografico (ES), Ministero delle Infrastrutture e dei Trasporti (IT), National Institute of Marine Geology and Geo-Ecology (RO), Niedersächsischer Landesbetrieb für Wasserwirtschaft, Küsten- und Naturschutz Betriebsstelle Norden-Norderney (DE), Onu Odessa I.I.Mechnkov National University (UA), Pensoft Publishers (BG), Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology Spain Sl (ES), Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology*Rmit University (AU), Scottish Association for Marine Science (UK), Universidad San Francisco De Quito (EC), Universidade De Aveiro (PT), Universidade Save (), Universitat Politecnica De Catalunya (ES), Universite Assane Seck de Ziguinchor (SN), Universite Mohammed Premier 1 (MA)

Last Update: 02. September 2025