ACTeon environment
Human size research and consultancy specialized in the development, implementation and evaluation of EU environmental policy. Key areas of expertise include social issues, economics, governance, participatory stakeholder processes.
Recent projects related to the topic include R2D2 (ANR-funded research project vulnerability and development of adaptation strategies on water resources in the Durance river basin, that has developed stakeholder-based prospective scenarios including for coastal areas of the PACA region); review of interregional studies on climate change adaptation (including coastal issues) and development of a national synthesis (for DATAR, as part of the Governance component of the PNACC); Explore 2070 project (MEDDTL, development of integrated approaches to climate change adaptation in the field of water that will provide relevant knowledge on water resources and socio-economic development for building the knowledge base of the French case study) ...
BRGM
Natural Science research in Geosciences, including on coastal hazards and risks in coastal areas (coastal erosion, flooding and water resources) and on the effects of climate change and sea level rise.
Recent research projects related to the topic include Explore 2070 project (BRGM was involved in the assessment of climate change implications for subsurface water resource and coastal risks); THESEUS project (FP7 funded project on the development of innovative coastal adaptation strategies in a changing climate); CECILE (ANR funded project on the implications of sea level rise for coastal erosion); Misseva (ANR funded project on the implications of climate and global change for submersion risk in Languedoc-Roussillon); Public service missions in the region “Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur” for assessing erosion and submersion risk for defining urban development regulatory documents (e.g. Scots).
ISCTE-IUL
Research unit in a public university, focused on economics, business and psychology. Key areas of expertise include decision making processes, participatory processes, perception and values, environmental economics, water management.
Recent projects related to the call topic include "ESAWADI - Utilizing the Ecosystem Services Approach for Water Framework Directive Implementation", ERA-IWRM/0001/2009) 2010-2012 and “Pricing and Behavioural Responses in the Water Sector”, PTDC/EGE-ECO/114477/2009, 2011-2013.
CESAM, University of Aveiro
Key areas of expertise of the Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies include integrated research in the Coastal and Marine Environment (Ecology, ecosystem services, spatial planning...).
Relevant on-going projects in the proposed Portuguese research include: LTER/BIA-BEC/0063/2009, LTER-RAVE - Long term monitoring in the Ria de Aveiro: towards a deeper understanding of ecological, environmental and economic processes; LAGOONS – (FP7 - Project Number: 283157), Integrated water resources and coastal zone management in European lagoons in the context of climate change; PTDC/AAC-CLI/100953/2008, ADAPTARia: Climate Change Modelling on Ria de Aveiro Litoral - Adaptation Strategy for Coastal and Fluvial Flooding.
University of Athens, Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment
The Laboratory of Physical Geography has expertise in the natural, technical and policy aspects of Coastal Zone Management, management and environmental protection of the marine and terrestrial coastal zone, sea level rise, coastal pollution (in water column and in sediment), and aspects related to climatic change (sea level rise), Integrated Coastal Management.
Recent projects related to the call topic include: SYNERGASIA (Ministry of Education and in-life learning); the development of a new methodology for the quantification and mitigation of the climatic impact on the eastern coast of Crete (AKTAIA).
What's new ?
The ADAPT-MED workshops for the Portuguese case study were held on the 17th of March and on the 8th of May 2015
Filipe Neto Brandão - member of the Portuguese Parliament from Aveiro – asks the Environment and Agriculture Ministers when the tidal defence works will start in Baixo Vouga Lagunar
The ADAPT-MED online survey on the perception of adaptation to climate change is now available !