SCORE project partners from CNR-ISAC, ATU, Lamma, UNIPI, ZRS, UCD and UCC have published a paper in the Sustainability journal. It is available in open access.
Abstract
Climate change resilience for urban coastal communities is a pressing matter considering hazards like sea-level rise, coastal flooding and erosion. Adapting to such changes and creating climate change resilience should be an all-stakeholder process. This paper discusses the early stages of stakeholder participation through a co-creation living lab (LL) approach in the Mediterranean coastal town of Piran. To achieve climate change resilience ecosystem-based approaches (EBAs) are used as tools, while in Piran the novel coastal city LL (CCLL) approach is supposed to facilitate a process to achieve acceptance and implementation of such EBA solutions, through consented decision of representative stakeholders from each of the quadruple helix framework, including citizens. During this process several organisational limitations were encountered such as the question of incentivizing stakeholders, man-hour devotion, appointing contact persons within large organisations, and the challenge of organising continuous personal face-to-face meetings. Parallel to previous findings that defining a shared vision is necessary for a successful CCLL, we emphasize that newly retrieved specific challenges identified through personal communication with stakeholders, and capitalising on those, further motivated the stakeholders. These specific challenges represent pressing issues, for example: how to retrieve and revalorize the historical water management system; how to improve the existing early warning system; how to empower and educate, through climate action, the town’s community that is facing population decline through tourism gentrification. The experience by the authors of this paper suggests that continuous interaction with stakeholders and facilitating multidisciplinary activities based on stakeholder’s prior knowledge and experience, are best practices in the co-creation of the urban living lab.
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Title: A New Approach towards a User-Driven Coastal Climate Service to Enhance Climate Resilience in European Cities
Authors: Roberta Paranunzio, Iulia Anton, Elisa Adirosi, Tasneem Ahmed, Luca Baldini, Carlo Brandini, Filippo Giannetti, Cécil Meulenberg, Alberto Ortolani, Francesco Pilla, Gregorio Iglesias, and Salem Gharbia
Cite as: Paranunzio, Roberta, Iulia Anton, Elisa Adirosi, Tasneem Ahmed, Luca Baldini, Carlo Brandini, Filippo Giannetti, et al. ‘A New Approach Towards a User-driven Coastal Climate Service to Enhance Climate Resilience in European Cities’. Sustainability 16, no. 1 (19 January 2024). https://doi.org/10.3390/su16010335
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