Results
By the end of the three-year Sustainable And Resilient Coastal Cities (SARCC) project, multiple outputs and results will have been produced. These outputs include toolkits, seminars and guidance booklets created through research, knowledge and the expertise of the 14 European SARCC partners. Read below to learn more about each one.
Visualisation Toolkit
The SARCC project is producing a visualisation toolkit. This toolkit brings together examples of best practice using nature-based solutions, historic trend analysis, future Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) climate scenarios and adaptive development techniques and put them into a number of different visual formats. These formats include: videos, landscape artwork (comparing nature-based solutions with hard engineering/grey infrastructure alternatives), animations showing impacts of rising sea level and how nature-based solutions can reduce that impact and a web-based geospatial viewer that links to research and outcomes of the SARCC pilots.
You can visit the toolkit website here.
NBS Guidance Booklet
A Nature-Based Solutions Guidance Booklet will be produced for Urban Authorities to use. It will provide a summary of the activities undertaken in the capacity building programme. It will include content on scientific evidence, historic trends, technical solutions and business models.
Have a look at the “Nature Based Solutions for Coastal Cities” booklet pdf in this link!
Implementation Framework & Monitoring Tool
Coming 2023
A new Framework and Monitoring Tool will be produced for the selection of the most suitable nature-based solutions to deploy along coastal urban landscapes.
Have a look at the “Nature Inclusive Urban Coastal Management Framework” English booklet pdf in this link, or in Dutch here!
Regional Seminars
4 regional seminars took place in 2022. One in the Netherlands, one in Belgium, one in France and one in the UK. The seminars detailed the benefits of deploying nature-based solutions as part of coastal flood defence systems.