Abstract
ACTION develops joint cross-border actions to promote resilient behaviours with a spill over effect on the territory and relevant economic sectors, in parallel with actions to increase awareness of the populations living in the programme coastal areas. These areas are in fact particularly affected by climate change effects such as sea level rise and saline intrusion, with obvious repercussions specifically on the important natural and cultural heritage present in the project area: natural parks, Natura 2000 sites, and cultural attractors in the 4 project pilot areas. ACTION will analyse the risks on the pilot areas in terms of current ecosystem services useful for the minimisation of the effects of sea level rise and saltwater intrusion, as well as the means to increase them and identify common and shared actions based on the nature-based solutions principle. Thus, the guiding principle for increasing resilience will be the ecosystem-based management (EBM). EBM aims at maintaining the ecosystem structure and functions while preserving and/or increasing the services produced over time. The project follows a precise logical and consequential structure of WPs through which, in a first phase, the 4 pilot areas are analysed and characterised to identify the main threats induced by climate change in a medium- and long-term time frame, secondly the ecosystem services that can increase the resilience of the pilot areas are identified, and then the most effective methods are developed, in line with the guiding principle outlined, to implement the 4 pilot actions on the territories. The experience of the project is finally systematised by sharing the identified solutions among the partnership and by developing a Joint Action Plan for the transferability of the shared methods and solutions to other territories. The flow of data and results feeds in parallel and progressively into the extensive awareness campaign implemented in ACTION. The expected behavioural change requires a modification of our patterns in terms of how we live and produce goods and services and protect the flora and fauna that give us food and life. In order to achieve this level of awareness amongst the different project target groups, a two-phase pathway is implemented consisting of a first phase of representation of the situation in the pilot areas, and of a second propositional one, through the identification of the benefits that ecosystem services produce. The latter phase involves all project target groups and aims at developing proactive adaptation behaviours for the increased resilience of natural and cultural heritage.
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Beatrice Maria Sole Giambastiani
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali
Coordinator:
Comune Di Ravenna - Servizio Risorse Umane E Qualita'(Italy)
Other Participants:
Ente Di Gestione Per I Parchi E La Biodiversita' - Delta Del Po
(Italy)
Istituto Delta Ecologia Applicata S.R.L.
(Italy)
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna
(Italy)
Ruder Boskovic Institute
(Croatia)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 1.922.187,20
Project Duration in months: 30
Start Date:
01/06/2024
End Date:
30/11/2026
