INCORE-MED – Inclusive Coastal Resilience in the Euro-Med
INCORE-MED brings citizens back into the heart of coastal and maritime planning. In Sardinia, Catalonia, Algarve and Kaštela, the project tests two advanced participation tools to improve coastal and marine policies: Scenario Workshops + Adaptation Pathways (SWAP) and Democracy Labs (DLABs). The SWAP tool helps local actors co-design paths of climate adaptation by blending community visions with expert climate forcing projections, using scenario building and multicriteria analysis. DLABs create dialogue and deliberation spaces where citizens and authorities co-develop new rules and formats for public engagement in coastal climate adaptation processes.
These tools are deployed to:
- create and update participatory cartographies and climate risk perception maps;
- integrate climate adaptation strategies in regional and local plans;
- disseminate the methodology to new territories through guidelines and online self-learning courses.
Focus
The project tackles the shared challenge of low public participation in Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) and Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP), which limits the effectiveness of climate adaptation. INCORE-MED focuses on empowering citizens to become active agents of change and integrating their voices into environmental governance through ecosystem-based approaches, climate justice, and participatory democracy.
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