Inventory of EU Marine Climate Change Research

COASTADAPT - Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Communities and Habitats on Europe’s Northern Periphery

Project website:
www.coastadapt.org/

Summary information
Funding:	EU INTERREG-IVB - Northern Periphery Programme
Total cost:	1445226
Ec contribution:	780387
Start date:	2009-01-01
End date:	2012-01-01
Duration:	months
Coordinator:	Western Isles Council Scotland – United Kingdom
Project name:	COASTADAPT - Sustainable Adaptation to Climate Change in Coastal Communities and Habitats on Europe’s Northern Periphery
Project summary:	The climate of the North Atlantic coastal regions is changing and sea-level is rising. Of great concern is the increased risk that climate change will bring to the economies and social well-being of North Atlantic coastal communities. CoastAdapt is a transnational project that will develop and implement a range of adaptation strategies and tools to enable people living in coastal communities take action to reduce the negative impacts as well as take advantage of the benefits of a changing climate. CoastAdapt will form an international partnership of local municipalities, environmental organisations and academic institutions to involve local people and local government in a ‘bottom-up’ approach in the development of adaptive response and preparedness for the impacts of climate change. The project will also consider and develop long-term recovery planning from climate induced natural hazards. CoastAdapt will produce data; information; tools such as handbooks, vulnerability assessment frameworks, regional scenarios, and adaptation implementation strategies; and climate change networks between pilot study areas and beyond. This project will also provide a sustainable single site, one-stop web-based service to enable these resources to be accessed by end-users not just in the pilot areas, but by coastal communities and local government staff throughout all North Atlantic regions and further afield.