Coastal Climate Resilience and Marine Restoration Tools for the Arctic Atlantic basin (CLIMAREST)

Description:

Climate change is impacting coastal regions all along the European coastline, which is home to over 40 % of the continent's population. Therefore, ecosystem restoration and initiatives to enhance climate resilience in these regions are a top priority. In this context, the EU-funded CLIMAREST project will develop, test and optimise a modular toolbox that integrates expert knowledge, scientific information, multilevel stakeholder and community involvement, ecosystem service improvement analysis, cost-benefit analysis, priority of actions, and custom-designed protocols for restoring and monitoring a wide range of diverse coastal habitats. The toolbox framework is tested in five ecosystems across a latitudinal gradient of the Arctic-Atlantic basin. The tools will be further tested for upscaling in comparable ecosystems.

Project information

Lead

SINTEF OCEAN AS, Norway

Partners

STIFTELSEN NORSK INSTITUTT FOR NATURFORSKNING NINA, Norway

INSTITUT FRANCAIS DE RECHERCHE POUR L'EXPLOITATION DE LA MER, France

ARDITI - AGENCIA REGIONAL PARA O DESENVOLVIMENTO DA INVESTIGACAO, TECNOLOGIA E INOVACAO - ASSOCIACAO, Portugal

WAVEC/OFFSHORE RENEWABLES - CENTRO DE ENERGIA OFFSHORE ASSOCIACAO, Portugal

UNIVERSITY OF GALWAY, Ireland

UNIVERSIDAD DE MALAGA, Spain

UNIVERSIDAD DE ALICANTE, Spain 

UNIVERSIDAD DE VIGO, Spain

NORGES TEKNISK-NATURVITENSKAPELIGE UNIVERSITET NTNU, Norway

METEOROLOGISK INSTITUTT, Norway

UNIVERSITA POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE, Italy

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II, Italy

SEABOOST, France

DANMARKS TEKNISKE UNIVERSITET, Denmark

AARHUS UNIVERSITET, Denmark