Shaping Climate change Adaptive PlacEs (SCAPE)

Coastal landscapes in the 2 Seas area (the Southern North Sea and the Channel) are particularly sensitive to the water-related effects of climate change, specifically flooding, rainfall and drought. To become more resilient to climate change, a better understanding of water management solutions that can improve the ability of these landscapes to cope with intense rainfall and rising sea levels is needed. SCAPE will address this challenge by developing and testing innovative water management solutions for coastal sites in urban, rural and fringe areas that experience flooding problems using a landscape led design (LLD) approach.

Based on a landscape led approach, SCAPE develops solutions to water management issues arising from climate change. SCAPE's main outputs are:

• 1 LLD strategy for incorporation of landscape led design solutions in water management;
• 1 LLD method that provides landscape led design guidelines for partners/target groups;
• 6 Pilot sites to validate the use of landscape led design in different urban, rural and fringe coastal landscapes, located in Belgium, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.