Project description
The tools to build climate-resilient communities
Climate change is expected to worsen the frequency and impact of extreme weather events. Together, we can build more resilient communities by integrating best practices and innovations from all sectors and from diverse areas of research. The EU-funded R4C project will develop innovative tools and collaborative practices to support European regions and communities in developing and implementing their own resilience plans that not only explicitly address social, environmental and economic innovations but also inherently consider social equity and social justice concerns associated with resilience building. The project will use system dynamic modelling to understand relationships among and trade-offs between different potential resilience innovations. This will support European regions and communities in their efforts to build resilience to climate change impacts.
Objective
Increasingly frequent extreme weather conditions due to climate change concomitant with unsustainable historical resource use and management practices create the perfect storm - threatening our livelihoods, well-being and environment. A transition towards resilience requires that we simultaneously address social inequalities and implement cross-sectoral innovations to build social, economic and environmental resilience to extreme events. Together, Regions4Climate partners commit to addressing current and forecasted climate change-related challenges and building more resilient European communities within an innovative socially engaged, citizen-driven paradigm. We aim to develop smarter, more inclusive, more resilient regional ecosystems through cross-sectoral innovation jointly created with stakeholders, by and for people. The development and implementation of cross-sectoral strategies that incorporate combinations of social, technological, digital, business, governance and environmental solutions to common climate resilience challenges is at present constrained by knowledge deficits and uncertainties, as well as science-policy-stakeholder gaps. Regions4Climate will bridge these gaps and address existing uncertainties by further developing, adapting and integrating state-of-the-art technical know-how, innovative tools and collaborative practices to support transparent, evidence-based risk and vulnerability analyses and robust decision-making processes. We will utilise system dynamic modelling to understand relationships among and trade-offs between different resilience innovations, providing tools for informed decision-making tailored to engage stakeholders and support European regions and communities exposed to significant climate change impacts. New scientific insights, along with a framework of interoperable tools, methodologies and demonstrated solutions will enable European regions to develop their own resilience plans and transformative adaptation pathways.
Fields of science
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringecosystem-based managementclimate change adaptation
- social sciencessociologysocial issuessocial inequalities
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and management
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinator
02150 Espoo
Finland
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Participants (45)
00130 Helsinki
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00100 Helsinki
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00240 Helsinki
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1040 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1113 Sofia
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8000 Burgas
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7183 Randbøl
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8200 Aarhus N
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3400 Hillerod
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4180 Soroe
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1165 Kobenhavn
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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15341 Agia Paraskevi
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00144 ROMA
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4150 356 Porto
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9501 801 Ponta Delgada S Miguel Acores
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48395 Sukarrieta
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31192 Mutilva Alta Navarra
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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47151 Boecillo
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47014 Valladolid
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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10416 Tallinn
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92040 Paris
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723 00 SITIA
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16129 Genova
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48011 BILBAO
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01010 Vitoria-Gasteiz
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64100 Bayonne
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64000 Pau
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9500-094 Ponta Delgada
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56127 Pisa
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50121 Florence
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50026 San Casciano In Val Di Pesa
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50132 Firenze
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50122 Firenze
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10617 Tallinn
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80010 PARNU
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80098 PARNU
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1011 LEFKOSIA
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4820 Platres
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104 22 Stockholm
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22111 Mariehamn
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40280 Navalmanzano
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40241 CUELLAR
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.