Resilience and inclusive pathways to a blue economy in coastal regions

Coastal regions are often characterised by strategic socio-economic assets. This makes coasts
particularly sensitive to Climate Change (CC) impacts, which primarily expose infrastructure and local
population. Human activities are also responsible for additional pressures on coastal ecosystems, often
aggravating vulnerabilities from CC. Coastal area adaptation strategies should be iterative and dynamic, due
to the evolving dynamics of coastal territorial systems.
It is argued that governing Land-Sea Interactions (LSI) and the coastal zones is particularly prone to
problems of observation (between land and sea, between the centre and coastal margin) and complex interdependencies
(between social and ecological systems, between actors managing risk) at different levels
(landscape, regime, and niche). Governing LSI requires a multi-actor and multi-level perspective applied as
methodological frameworks to governance and new forms of policy integration. Therefore, the growth of the
pressures induced on the global marine environment urgently requires more sustainable coastal and
maritime management.
OCEANIDS is a HORIZON-MISS-CLIMA project. Its aims is building user-driven applications and tools, to
achieve a more resilient and inclusive systemic pathway to a Blue Economy in coastal regions. The project
has a strong focus on behavioral change, both on individual as well as on a systemic level, enabling
participating regions and communities to better understand and use potential social tipping points and
systemic leverage points to accelerate transformative changes towards climate resilience.