Caribbean network for coastal risks related with climate change (CaribCoast)
Description:
The Carib-Coast project ambition is to pool, co-construct and disseminate monitoring and coastal risk prevention approaches and adaptation to climate change. The associated challenges primarily concern the safety of goods and persons, but also the tourism economy linked to the preservation of beaches and the natural heritage of these interface environments, rich in biodiversity (mangroves, coral reefs, sea grass beds).
It is organized around four work modules:
- Project coordination and management
- Observation and modeling of coastal hydrodynamics (creation of a hydrodynamic modelling catalogue for the simulation of current and future hazards)
- Coastal erosion monitoring and Mitigation (developing existing observatories and sharing of good practices around a common protocol)
- Tools for decision support, risk management, adaptation and restoration of ecosystem services (providing decision support tools for the prevention of natural coastal risk)
Project information
Lead
BRGM (French Geological Survey) France
Partners
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, France,
ONF- French National Forest Office, France
IRD - French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development, France
CAR-SPAW – The Regional Activity Center for the Protocol concerning Specially protected Areas for the wider Caribbean Region
National Park of Guadeloupe
French National Centre for Scientific Research (Délégation Paris B), France
Universities of West Indies – St. Augustine Campus Trinidad et Tobago
Ministry of Work, Transport, Coastal Protection Unit, Trinidad et Tobago
AEC - Association of Caribbean States, Trinidad et Tobago
CARICOOS, The Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System, Puerto Rico
Mona Geoinformatics Institute (UWI) Jamaica
Mona Informatix Limited Jamaica
Source of funding
Interreg Caribbean
Reference information
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Published in Climate-ADAPT Mar 03 2022 - Last Modified in Climate-ADAPT Feb 04 2023