D5.1 Report mapping the governance status quo in pilot sites

• DOI: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e114824
• Publication Date: 2023-10-30T06:30:05Z
• Authors: Carla Danelutti; Emmi Lindqvist; Maria del Mar Otero; Mindert de Vries; Albert Vos; Nuno Caiola; Vicente Gracia; Nil Alvarez; Laura Puertolas; Jaime Ordonez; Silvia Torresan; Caterina Dabalà; Francesca Coccon; Grzegorz Różyński; Nikolay Valchev; Nataliya Andreeva; Elitsa Hineva; Olivier Boutron; Rosaria Ester Mus...; Massimiliano Marino; Christophe Briere; Julien Dalle; Margot Defoort-Le...; Margot Ahr; Yael Salame-Rubin; Simon Nemtzov; Avi Uzan
• Keywords: Coastal flood; Natural hazard; Coastal hazards; Coastal Management

Coastal regions provide some of the most productive and biodiverse environments with an important often underappreciated carbon storage potential. At same time, they are among areas highest population density, natural assets cultural heritage in world, yet experiencing significant social, economic environmental challenges, exacerbated by climate change human pressures.The REST-COAST project (Large scale RESToration COASTal ecosystems through rivers to sea connectivity) will demonstrate what extent upscaled coastal restoration can a low-carbon adaptation, reducing risks providing gains biodiversity for vulnerable ecosystems, such as wetlands or grass beds. By overcoming present technical, economic, governance social barriers upscaling, develop large river-coast connectivity increase nearshore accommodation space resilient delivery ecosystem services (ESs). The selected ESs (risk reduction, quality fish provisioning) touch urgent problems erosion/flooding during recent storms accelerating habitat degradation that seriously affects fisheries aquaculture. Combining new techniques, risk assessments, innovative financial/governance arrangements homogeneous metrics biodiversity, systemic approach based on scalable adaptation plan.