Description du projet
Redonner vie aux cours d’eau urbains pour des villes durables
Les villes du monde entier sont confrontées aux défis du changement climatique et d’une urbanisation galopante. Les solutions fondées sur la nature (SfN) sont apparues comme une approche cruciale pour traiter ces problèmes urbains de manière globale. En revanche, la manière d’intégrer efficacement les SfN dans les paysages d’eau douce urbaine demeure une énigme. Le projet StreamScape, financé par l’UE, se propose de combler ce manque de connaissances en examinant les impacts sociaux et environnementaux des cours d’eau urbains en tant que SfN essentielles. Il entend protéger la qualité de l’eau, atténuer les catastrophes naturelles, préserver la biodiversité et améliorer le bien-être des citadins. StreamScape évaluera l’impact du développement urbain,en se concentrant sur des études de cas à Aveiro et Coimbra, au Portugal. Il étudie également la manière dont la dégradation de ces cours d’eau est perçue par le public.
Objectif
Cities around the world are undergoing significant transformations and are facing substantial challenges in the form of urban of climate change and ongoing urbanisation. The idea that we can work with nature to improve our cities is now seen as vital. The concept of Nature-Based Solutions has emerged to foster sustainable development by transversally addressing social, economic, and environmental urban challenges. Although the attention to nature-based solutions inclusion is an important pillar of urban sustainability, a clear understanding how they can be implemented in the freshwater landscape, is still missing, even in face of the relevance of the urban freshwaters to wellbeing of the population. This investigation aims to fill this gap, by analysing the social and environmental impacts of urban streams as important nature-based solutions from protecting water quality to reducing natural hazards while preserving biodiversity and providing health and wellbeing benefits to population. By selecting as case studies Aveiro and Coimbra, the research project aims to promote the urban streams and their multiple ecosystem services as important nature-based solutions to mitigate the effects of urbanization and climate change on aquatic ecosystems, in the human health and in the wellbeing of the population. The project will adopt the research strategies: to assess how urban development affect a capacity of urban streams to provide ecosystem services using well-established scientific methods and investigate how the degradation of urban streams reflects on the local residents’ perception of the ecosystem services in terms of benefits, health and wellbeing. In addition, thematic maps of ecosystem services identified in the urban streams will be produced to demonstrate the relevance of urban streams for ecological, cultural and social aspects and to demonstrate can this information can be useful to urban planning and governance.
Champ scientifique
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental scienceshydrologylimnology
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesphysical geographynatural disasters
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinateur
3810-193 Aveiro
Portugal