Project description
New ways to restore coastal ecosystems
To what extent can upscaled coastal restoration provide low-carbon adaptation? Can it reduce risks and provide biodiversity gains for vulnerable coastal ecosystems like wetlands or seagrass beds? The EU-funded REST-COAST project will bring together 38 partners to assess ecosystem services from coastal marshes, seabed meadows and coastal dunes, to reduce erosion and flooding risks while enhancing biodiversity and blue carbon. It will develop large-scale river-coast connectivity and increase the nearshore accommodation space for the resilient delivery of coastal ecosystem services. The project will conduct nine pilots in the main EU regional seas (Baltic, Black, North, Atlantic and Mediterranean) with the aim of increasing the commitment of citizens, stakeholders and policymakers.
Objective
REST COAST will demonstrate to what extent upscaled coastal restoration can provide a low-carbon adaptation, reducing risks and providing gains in biodiversity for vulnerable coastal ecosystems, such as wetlands or sea grass beds. By overcoming present technical, economic, governance and social barriers to restoration upscaling, REST COAST will develop the large-scale river-coast connectivity and increase the nearshore accommodation space for the resilient delivery of coastal ecosystem services (ESS). The selected ESS (risk reduction, environmental quality and fish provisioning) touch urgent coastal problems such as the erosion/flooding during recent storms or the accelerating coastal habitat degradation that seriously affects fisheries and aquaculture. By enhancing these ESS under present and future climates at 9 Pilots that represent the main EU regional seas (Baltic, Black, North, Atlantic and Mediterranean) we shall increase the commitment of citizens, stakeholders and policy makers for a long-term maintenance of restoration. Such commitment will go together with a transformation of governance and financial structures, supported by evidence-based results on restoration benefits for the welfare of coastal societies and assets. This transformation will build upon the results from hands-on restoration at the Pilots, steered by the multidisciplinary project advances. Combining new techniques, risk assessments, innovative financial/governance arrangements and homogeneous metrics for ESS and biodiversity, REST-COAST will develop a systemic approach to coastal restoration based on a scalable coastal adaptation plan. The plan will underpin a transformative change in governance and policies, proving the importance of the coastal dimension in the EU Green Deal for adaptation/mitigation under climate change. The proposed adaptation will facilitate replicating large scale restoration and introducing coastal ESS into national and international policies.
Fields of science
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementecological restoration
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicssustainable economy
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemscoastal ecosystems
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08034 Barcelona
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Participants (43)
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles (Barcelona)
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10178 Berlin
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2629 HV Delft
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75007 Paris
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1196 Gland
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1111 Sofia
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08014 Barcelona
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28040 Madrid
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08007 Barcelona
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08036 Barcelona
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28003 Madrid
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08034 Barcelona
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21502 Geesthacht
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26506 Norden
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73100 Lecce
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30124 Venezia
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35122 Padova
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30123 Venezia
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80328 Gdansk
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9000 Varna
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9700 AP Groningen
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13200 Arles
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78280 Guyancourt
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34965 Montpellier
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78280 Guyancourt
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78280 Guyancourt
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95131 Catania
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95463 Jerusalem
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NR4 7TJ Norwich
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LN6 7TS Lincoln
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13002 Marseille
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34460 Istanbul
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28053 Madrid
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13104 Arles
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09127 Cagliari
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6708 PB Wageningen
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6708 PB Wageningen
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3072 ME Rotterdam
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4610101 Herzliya
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3341 LW Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht
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10117 Berlin
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00161 Roma
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