Sustainable and Resilient Coastal Cities

To enable nature-based solutions (NbS) to be mainstreamed into the coastal flood defence systems of coastal urban areas, either as stand-alone projects or integrated into existing grey infrastructure, utilising natural adaptative responses to build climate resilience to sea level rise.
The overall objective is to create a replicable approach across the 2 Seas coastal communities to build more climate resilience across their urban landscapes to sea level rise, tidal surges and storms via NbS.• 7km of coastline in the 2 Seas area with increased climate resilience to coastal flooding thanks to deployment of 8 NbS Investment Pilots.
• 720 urban decision-makers, officers working on coastal management with enhanced capacity on NbS.
• 24,000 individuals engaged (directly/indirectly) on benefits of NbS in Investment Pilot areas.
• 60 coastal urban authorities engaged with SARCC tools and solutions for NbS (WP1, WP2, WP3).
• 80 businesses engaged with SARCC tools and solutions for NbS (WP2).There are five Main Outputs that the SARCC Partners will achieve:
• A New Framework and Monitoring Tool for the selection of the most suitable nature-based solutions to deploy along coastal urban landscapes (Output 1).
• Four Nature-Based Solution Capacity Programme to engage with urban decision-makers, leaders and officers involved in coastal management (Output 2).
• A Visualisation Toolkit for local stakeholders (citizens, businesses) to support the approval of Nature-Based Solutions for Coastal Management (Output 3).
• To deploy a series of 8 Nature-Based Solution Investments, highlighting added value in comparison to traditional grey infrastructure.(Output 4).
• To Mainstream Nature-Based Solutions into long-term coastal management strategies of the Urban Partners (Output 5).