Project Objectives
1. Set up co-creation processes on wetlands for drought mitigation in all SCs by co-design, co-monitoring, and co-evaluation of NBS considering the needs identified by stakeholders, policymakers, and residents.
2. Demonstrate cost-effective wetlands as resilient solutions to present and future extreme drought events in different contexts (urban, peri-urban, rural) within various bioclimatic areas of Europe.
3. Strengthen the resilience to drought using NBS by adopting a comprehensive modelling approach, understanding the drought risk perception as a key element of drought risk management.
4. Create tools to facilitate the replication and upscaling of NBS to mitigate the impacts of droughts. To achieve this.
5. Disseminate, exploit and communicate the project's actions to key stakeholders and the general public, raising awareness of the crucial role of implementing wetlands as effective NBS for drought mitigation, and enhancing implementation of EU policies, especially those related to water management and climate adaptation.
Methods
KER1: AI driven expert system
KER2: Monitoring programme and platform
KER3: Cost effectiveness evaluation software
KER4: Decision support system
KER5: Map for drought resilience replicability
KER6: Participatory system dynamic model
KER7: Stakeholder engagement and co-design manual
KER8: Effective implementation and adaptative management manual
KER9: Policy, governance and financial recommendations based on identified barriers
KER10: Training and capacity-building portfolio for NBS4Drought solutions
KER11: Citizen science manual for NBS.
Barriers
1. Lack of high-quality data
2. Regulatory and permitting challenges
3. Lack of SC replications to validate the assesment results
4. Differences between countries
5. Diversity of policies
Funding
EU horizon, Grant number 101181351