Project
TRIPLE C : Climate resilient Community-based Catchment planning and management
Description:
The coming decades are likely to see a higher flood risk in Europe and greater economic damage. New cost-effective solutions for improving environmental and economic resilience are needed in the region. Due to erosion and sedimentation, the buffering and discharge capacity of waterways and fields are being lost, resulting in an increased flooding risk. There is a need to implement techniques that reduce flooding by reducing water runoff and soil erosion.
The TRIPLE C partnership will reduce flooding in the participating catchment areas by demonstrating and validating, though a series of pilot projects, how farmers can create cost-saving water retention and erosion control measures upstream. Co-developed by networks of farmers and water managers, these will take better control of additional rainfall at the source of the issues and result in wide ranging benefits to both the farmers and local communities and other stakeholders. Specific objectives are:
- To increase knowledge and improve awareness & involvement of local stakeholders in catchment-based climate adaptation solutions;
- To implement and evaluate participatory catchment-based climate adaptation solutions.
Project information
Lead
Somerset County Council, United Kingdom
Partners
FWAG (Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group) South West, United Kingdom
Devon Wildlife Trust, United Kingdom
Kent County Council, Netherlands
Brabantse Delta WaterBoard, Netherlands
ZLTO (Southern Dutch Farmer and Horticulturists Organization), Belgium/Flanders
Province of Antwerp, Belgium/Flanders
Inagro, Belgium/Flanders
ABC Eco², Belgium/Flanders
Province of East Flanders, Belgium/Flanders
Vegetable research centre East Flanders, Belgium/Flanders
The Flemish Environment Agency, Belgium/Flanders
Source of funding
Interreg 2 Seas Programme