Project description
Tailored nature-based solutions for regional climate resilience
Climate change is causing severe impacts on people, the planet and the economy. To combat the degradation of natural resources, communities must enhance their resilience and work together. The European Mission on Climate Adaptation takes a systemic approach by experimenting and engaging with local communities. The EU-funded NBRACER project promotes the creation of climate-resilient, safe, green, clean, healthy and equitable regions through the strategic using of nature-based solutions rooted in biogeographic landscapes. It also empowers communities with transformative actions. Specifically, NBRACER collaborates with European Atlantic regions to develop nature-based solutions that are suited to the local area. These solutions are then scaled up into regional packages and integrated into adaptation strategies with the support of the community.
Objective
The impacts of climate change on people, planet and prosperity are intensifying. Many regions and communities are struggling to avoid losses and need to step up the effort to increase their climate resilience. Ongoing natural capital degradation leads to growing cost, increased vulnerability, and decreased stability of key systems. Therefore, the European Mission on Climate Adaptation acknowledges the need to adopt a systemic approach by working across sectors and disciplines, experimenting, and involving local communities. NBRACER steps up to this challenge with an innovative and practical approach to accelerate the transformation towards climate resilient regions that are safe, green, clean, healthy, and just. Adaptation will be based on the smart packaging of nature-based solutions (NBS), rooted in the resources supplied by biogeographic landscapes, and embedded in a transformative action approach that mobilizes and enables regions and communities to accelerate forward.
NBRACER works with Demonstrating and Replicating regions in the European Atlantic biogeographical area to vision and co-design place based sustainable NBS that are at one with the regional landscapes, upscaling these into coherent regional packages and building time and place specific adaptation pathways integrating local solutions and regional scales. This process is supported by a regional scale effort to build adaptation journeys with community support, with input from teams testing and validating place based NBS solution portfolios situated in landscapes. Innovative technical and adaptation transformation support packages provide quantitative mapping methods and a transformative action approach and capacity building, and networking enable scaling out and building connections.
Led by Deltares, advanced in climate adaptation science, the consortium builds synergy from the strength of practitioners, ecosystem engineers, innovators of transformative adaptation, finance, and capacity building experts.
Fields of science
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementinnovation management
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencessustainability sciences
- natural sciencesphysical sciencesastronomyplanetary sciencesplanets
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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2629 HV Delft
Netherlands
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Participants (28)
1018 DC Amsterdam
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6708 PB Wageningen
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20009 DONOSTIA-SAN SEBASTIAN (GIPUZKOA)
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75018 Paris
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39011 Santander
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39005 Santander
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39003 Santander
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39513 Ruente
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2400 Mol
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8200 Sint-Andries/Brugge
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1749 016 Lisbon
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4049 001 Porto
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33077 Bordeaux
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33600 Pessac
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33402 Talence
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32000 Auch
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
73100 Lecce
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79098 Freiburg Im Breisgau
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
4700-309 Braga
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8911 KZ Leeuwarden
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9220 Aalborg
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1210 Bruxelles / Brussel
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75006 Paris
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79510 Coulon
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39001 Santander
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31200 TOULOUSE
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4099-002 Porto
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7620 Lemvig
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