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RESTORE OUR COASTS: Global Coastal Ocean Restoration and Resilience
The Restore our Coasts project tackles coastal restoration and resilience through innovative nature-based solutions such as coral reef reintroduction and seagrass and mangrove restoration. A multidisciplinary approach integrates numerical models, economic analysis, and community collaboration in over 14 countries, fostering sustainable and replicable practices beyond the project’s lifespan.
Restore our Coasts will address coastal restoration and resilience holistically by delivering new solutions for ecosystem restoration and management through a multidisciplinary approach that integrates in-situ observations, use of numerical models for forecasting, economic analyses and projected social impact.
The approach will inform the application of site-specific nature-based solutions such as coral reef reintroduction, seagrass and mangroves restoration. Passive restoration measures removing sources of disturbance, such as establishment of marine protected areas, will also be considered.
Co-design and continuous stakeholder and user collaboration at Pilot Sites in more than 14 nations, will be an important element to ensure that solutions are co-designed to support community and coastal resilience.
Private, government and community representatives will be engaged. Special emphasis will be on developing sustainable and replicable practices that live beyond the project’s lifespan.
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Program and Call for proposals
Call for Decade Actions No. 05/2023
Start date
05/01/2024
End date
04/30/2030
Duration in months
72
Coordinator
University of South Africa (ZA)
Partners
UNISA (ZA) - CMCC (IT) - HEREON (DE) - IGP (PE) - PLOCAN (ES)