Large scale RESToration of COASTal ecosystems through rivers to sea connectivity

Project Information

REST-COAST

Grant agreement ID: 101037097

DOI 10.3030/101037097

EC signature date 8 September 2021

Start date 1 October 2021

End date 31 March 2026

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 18 482 592,50

EU contribution € 17 823 755,75

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA
Spain

Deliverables

Documents, reports (4)

Report mapping the governance status quo in each pilot project site

Analysis of governance status quo at the Pilots based on the project selfassessment tools and mapping governance evolution plus transformation potential

Plan for project clustering and joint production with other Green Deal projects

Structured plan for project clustering and joint production of added value results joint publications and communications plan linked stakeholder and policy lobbying groups strategy with other Green Deal projects

Framework for developing funding and finance arrangements for coastal restoration.

Framework for developing fundingfinance arrangements for coastal restoration locally and globally

Technical barriers/enablers for coastal hands-on restoration

Technical report on barriersenablers for the implementation of coastal ecosystem handson restoration in the Pilots assessing the effects of site specific socialecological conditionslimits

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website and Branding

Public website continuously updated for fast access to project information including an attractive branding for recognition of the coastal restoration role in the Green Deal

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Sea-level rise, marine storms and the resilience of Mediterranean coastal wetlands: lessons learned from the Ebro Delta

Author(s): Carles Ibáñez, Nuno Caiola
Published in: Marine and Freshwater Research, Issue 73, 2021, Page(s) 1246-1254, ISSN 1323-1650
Publisher: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Publishing
DOI: 10.1071/mf21140

Assessment of the variation of failure probability of upgraded rubble-mound breakwaters due to climate change

Author(s): Martina Stagnitti, Javier L. Lara, Rosaria E. Musumeci and Enrico Foti
Published in: Sec. Coastal Ocean Processes, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 986993, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.986993

Analysis on a database of ship accidents in port areas

Author(s): Massimiliano Marino, Luca Cavallaro, Elisa Castro, Rosaria Ester Musumeci, Matteo Martignoni, Federico Roman, Enrico Foti
Published in: Data in Brief, Issue 48, 2023, Page(s) 109127, ISSN 2352-3409
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109127

The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021

Author(s): Danial Khojasteh, Milad Haghani, Robert J. Nicholls, Hamed Moftakhari, Mahmood Sadat-Noori, Katharine J. Mach, Sergio Fagherazzi, Athanasios T. Vafeidis, Edward Barbier, Abbas Shamsipour & William Glamore
Published in: Communications earth & environment, Issue 4, 2023, Page(s) 257, ISSN 2662-4435
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43247-023-00920-4

New frontiers in the risk assessment of ship collision

Author(s): Massimiliano Marino, Luca Cavallaro, Elisa Castro, Rosaria Ester Musumeci, Matteo Martignoni, Federico Roman, Enrico Foti
Published in: Ocean Engineering, Issue 274, 2023, Page(s) 113999, ISSN 0029-8018
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.oceaneng.2023.113999

Barriers and enablers for upscaling coastal restoration

Author(s): Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla, Iván Cáceres, Xavier Le Roux, Jochen Hinkel, Mark Schuerch, Robert J Nicholls, del Mar Otero, Joanna Staneva, Mindert de Vries, Umberto Pernice, Christophe Briere, Nuno Caiola, Vicente Gracia, Carles Ibáñez, Silvia Torresan
Published in: Nature-Based Solutions, Issue 2, 2022, Page(s) 100032, ISSN 2772-4115
Publisher: Elsevier B.V.
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2022.100032

Channel curvature improves water quality and nutrient filtering in an artificially deepened mesotidal idealized estuary

Author(s): Johannes Pein, Joanna Staneva, Ute Daewel, Corinna Schrum
Published in: Continental Shelf Research, Issue 231, 2021, Page(s) 104582, ISSN 0278-4343
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2021.104582

Assessing the coastal protection role of seagrass meadows along a barrier beach, southern Romanian coast

Author(s): Irina Dinu, Albert Monclús i Bori, Vicente Gràcia, Manuel García-León, Jue Lin-Ye, Adrian Stănică, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla
Published in: Journal of Sea Research, Issue 191, 2023, Page(s) 102329, ISSN 1385-1101
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2022.102329

Resilience of Coastal Lake Barriers in Poland in Light of Geological and Bathymetric Data and Hydrodynamic Simulations

Author(s): Grzegorz Różyński, Grzegorz R. Cerkowniak
Published in: Sec. Coastal Ocean Processes, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 815405, ISSN 2296-7745
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.815405

Widespread retreat of coastal habitat is likely at warming levels above 1.5 °C

Author(s): Neil Saintilan, Benjamin Horton, Torbjörn E. Törnqvist, Erica L. Ashe, Nicole S. Khan, Mark Schuerch, Chris Perry, Robert E. Kopp, Gregory G. Garner, Nicholas Murray, Kerrylee Rogers, Simon Albert, Jeffrey Kelleway, Timothy A. Shaw, Colin D. Woodroffe, Catherine E. Lovelock, Madeline M. Goddard, Lindsay B. Hutley, Katya Kovalenko, Laura Feher & Glenn Guntenspergen
Published in: Nature, Issue 621, 2023, Page(s) 112–119, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06448-z

Embracing Nature-based Solutions to promote resilient marine and coastal ecosystems

Author(s): Bethan C. O'Leary, Catarina Fonseca, Cindy C. Cornet, Mindert B. de Vries, A.Karima Degia, Pierre Failler, Elisa Furlan, Joaquim Garrabou, Artur Gil, Julie P. Hawkins, Dorte Krause-Jensen, Xavier Le Roux, Myron A. Peck, Géraldine Pérez, Ana M. Queirós, Grzegorz Różyński, Agustín Sanchez-Arcilla, Rémy Simide, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Ewan Trégarot, Callum M. Roberts
Published in: Nature-Based Solutions, Issue 3, 2023, Page(s) 100044, ISSN 2772-4115
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbsj.2022.100044

Surface roughness measurement for the assessment of damage dynamics of existing and upgraded cube-armored breakwaters

Author(s): M. Stagnitti, R.E. Musumeci, E. Foti
Published in: Coastal Engineering, Issue 179, 2023, Page(s) 104226, ISSN 0378-3839
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.coastaleng.2022.104226

Invited perspectives: Managed realignment as a solution to mitigate coastal flood risks – optimizing success through knowledge co-production

Author(s): Mark Schuerch, Hannah Mossman, Harriet Moore, Joshua Kiesel
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 22(9), 2022, Page(s) 2879–2890, ISSN 0921-030X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-22-2879-2022

Detecting anomalous sea-level states in North Sea tide gauge data using an autoassociative neural network

Author(s): Wahle, K., Stanev, E. V., and Staneva, J.
Published in: Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, Issue 23, 2023, Page(s) 415–428, ISSN 1684-9981
Publisher: Göttingen: Copernicus Publ.
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-23-415-2023

Conference proceedings (6)

Realignment strategy in the Rhone Delta: consequences for geomorphological dynamics in a context of climate change

Author(s): CECILE PUIGSERVER, FRANCOIS SABATIER, PHILIPPE LARROUDE and OLIVIER BOUTRON
Published in: Coastal Sediment 2023, Issue April 2023, 2023, Page(s) 2293-2306
Publisher: US Army Corps of Engineers, USA
DOI: 10.1142/9789811275135_0211

LARGE-SCALE RESTORATION OF RIVER-TO-COAST CONNECTIVITY AND FUNCTIONALITY: THE EBRO CASE

Author(s): Carles Ibáñez, Nuno Caiola, Agustín Sánchez-Arcilla
Published in: Mirando a los ríos desde el mar. Viejos y nuevos debates para una transición hídrica justa., Issue 2023, 2023, Page(s) 6-11
Publisher: Editum. Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia
DOI: 10.6018/editum.3003

Restoration of Coastal Ecological Processes versus Fish Conservation: To Be or Not to Be…

Author(s): Nuno Caiola and Carles Ibáñez
Published in: Biology and life sciences forum, Issue 13(1), 2022, Page(s) 51, ISBN 978-3-0365-8804-9
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/blsf2022013051

NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS FOR SEDIMENT STARVED DELTAS. THE EBRO CASE IN THE SPANISH MEDITERRANEAN COAST

Author(s): A. SANCHEZ-ARCILLA, C. IBAÑEZ, V. GRACIA, L. GARROTE, I. CACERES, D. LOPEZ, J.M. DE LA PEÑA, N. CAIOLA, A. MUNNE, A. ESPANYA, A. IGLESIAS, A. ROVIRA, D.G. MARCO, and J.M. GRASSA
Published in: Coastal Sediment 2023, Issue April 2023, 2023, Page(s) 2307-2320
Publisher: US Army Corps of Engineers, USA
DOI: 10.1142/9789811275135_0212

oastal restoration measures to mitigate coastal flooding in a context of climate change: the case of the South-East of Sicily

Author(s): Marino, M., Musumeci, R. E., Cavallaro, L., and Foti, E.
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, Issue 24–28 Apr 2023, 2023, Page(s) EGU23-16529
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16529

Assessment of coastal restoration measures to mitigate coastal flooding in a context of climate change: the case of the South-East of Sicily lagoons

Author(s): Marino, M., Musumeci, R. E., Cavallaro, L., & Foti, E.
Published in: Coastal Sediments 2023, Issue April 2023, 2023, Page(s) 2286-2292
Publisher: US Army Corps of Engineers, USA
DOI: 10.1142/9789811275135_0210