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Our Future Coast Working with nature to safeguard coastal communities.
Traditional hard defences are prohibitively expensive and unsustainable for large areas of our rural coast.
Our Future Coast will test and implement nature-based solutions at 14 sites on the NW Coast.
We will develop a suite of natural buffer strips to increase coastal resilience of vulnerable hot-spots in the North West. Natural coastal buffer strips can provide multiple benefits, including reducing flood risk, reducing coastal erosion, increasing biodiversity and water quality, provides carbon capture and other ecosystem services such as recreation and well-being.
Buffer strips with their rich vegetation, act as natural breakwaters, capturing sediment and dissipating wave energy. Buffer strips include developing salt marsh, managed realignment, reclaiming redundant brownfield sites, dune systems, and intertidal lagoons to provide storage of surface water during high tide.
Linking together innovative monitoring, community engagement and natural coastal interventions to enhance coastal understanding and resilience whilst delivering multiple benefits. The project will provide the essential evidence of the benefits of the buffer strips but also to demonstrate the effectiveness and multi beneficial use of bringing together remote monitoring system.
Our project will address 5 key areas:
Understanding the eco-geomorphological system
Develop innovative solutions to create and maintain buffers
Application of novel and integrated monitoring techniques including autonomous radar, WireWall, satellite and drone photogrammetry and Citizen Science to provide a single learning model of the coastal nearshore
Establish adaptation triggers and pathway;
Empowering communities; throughout the project, communities will be engaged in a process of co-creation of knowledge and co-design of buffers.
The project outcomes will be documented as a practical user guide and disseminated through established portals, educational establishments, professional organisations, community champions and a dedicated community co-ordinator.
Our project will:
establish best practice procedures for the creation of ecological buffers allowing the coast to breathe,
co-develop, co-create and co-manage coastal innovation projects with local communities, building greater community resilience,
bring together coastal evidence that substantiates the value of natural coastal interventions demonstrating and measuring a wide range of benefits.
How our project is testing innovation
As part of the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme we will be testing 2 resilience actions.
Nature based solutions
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Wyre Council, Coastal Protection Authorities: Allerdale, Copeland, South Lakes, Barrow, Lancaster, Wyre, Blackpool, Fylde, West Lancs, Sefton and Wirral; Morecambe Bay Partnership, Wyre Rivers Trust
Lancashire Wildlife Trust, National Oceanography Centre, Lancaster University, Natural England, Marine Management Organisation, Historic England, National Trust, Sefton Coast Partnership, NW Coastal Forum, Eden project, RSPB, 7 FLAGs and numerous landowners other stakeholders and community forums
Our Future Coast Working with nature to safeguard coastal communities.
Traditional hard defences are prohibitively expensive and unsustainable for large areas of our rural coast.
Our Future Coast will test and implement nature-based solutions at 14 sites on the NW Coast.
We will develop a suite of natural buffer strips to increase coastal resilience of vulnerable hot-spots in the North West. Natural coastal buffer strips can provide multiple benefits, including reducing flood risk, reducing coastal erosion, increasing biodiversity and water quality, provides carbon capture and other ecosystem services such as recreation and well-being.
Buffer strips with their rich vegetation, act as natural breakwaters, capturing sediment and dissipating wave energy. Buffer strips include developing salt marsh, managed realignment, reclaiming redundant brownfield sites, dune systems, and intertidal lagoons to provide storage of surface water during high tide.
Linking together innovative monitoring, community engagement and natural coastal interventions to enhance coastal understanding and resilience whilst delivering multiple benefits. The project will provide the essential evidence of the benefits of the buffer strips but also to demonstrate the effectiveness and multi beneficial use of bringing together remote monitoring system.
Our project will address 5 key areas:
Understanding the eco-geomorphological system
Develop innovative solutions to create and maintain buffers
Application of novel and integrated monitoring techniques including autonomous radar, WireWall, satellite and drone photogrammetry and Citizen Science to provide a single learning model of the coastal nearshore
Establish adaptation triggers and pathway;
Empowering communities; throughout the project, communities will be engaged in a process of co-creation of knowledge and co-design of buffers.
The project outcomes will be documented as a practical user guide and disseminated through established portals, educational establishments, professional organisations, community champions and a dedicated community co-ordinator.
Our project will:
establish best practice procedures for the creation of ecological buffers allowing the coast to breathe,
co-develop, co-create and co-manage coastal innovation projects with local communities, building greater community resilience,
bring together coastal evidence that substantiates the value of natural coastal interventions demonstrating and measuring a wide range of benefits.
How our project is testing innovation
As part of the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Programme we will be testing 2 resilience actions.
Nature based solutions
Community and voluntary sector action to be better prepared and recover more quickly
Wyre Council, Coastal Protection Authorities: Allerdale, Copeland, South Lakes, Barrow, Lancaster, Wyre, Blackpool, Fylde, West Lancs, Sefton and Wirral; Morecambe Bay Partnership, Wyre Rivers Trust
Lancashire Wildlife Trust, National Oceanography Centre, Lancaster University, Natural England, Marine Management Organisation, Historic England, National Trust, Sefton Coast Partnership, NW Coastal Forum, Eden project, RSPB, 7 FLAGs and numerous landowners other stakeholders and community forums
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