Sustainable Coastal Risk Management in 2050

Programme 2000 - 2006 North Sea Region

Date of latest update: 2021-04-06

Description

Description (EN):

Safecoast’s aim was to learn from each other by discussing their different contexts and approaches to coastal flood and erosion risk management. Faced with climate change, and associated impacts on our coasts, it is important to analyse, compare and benchmark our methods and ideas, focusing on the question: ‘How to manage our North Sea coasts in 2050?’ In order to answer that question, a number of separate key questions need answering and are addressed in project Safecoast as follows: • What is the present context of coastal flood and erosion risk? • How do we deal with problems now in terms of policy and management? • What risk-related trends do we foresee by analysing scenarios for the future? • What will be the trend of coastal flood and erosion risk in the future? • Are current policies and measures sustainable with respect to the future? • What could be promising adaptive strategies for the future?

Achievements (EN):

The output and results have been documented in a set of separate and more detailed reports that can be found on www.safecoast.org. Also the synthesis report can be found on the website, which not only presents a compilation of the main findings from the different Safecoast projects, but also reflects the views, to the degree possible, of all stakeholders present in the different workshops that were organised between 2005 and 2008. The synthesis report has been distributed in all of the 5 participating countries. Since exchanging knowledge starts with exchanging information, considerable effort has been made to make relevant information accessible. Over 355 downloadable documents and over 85 news updates from the five North Sea countries with respect to coastal flood and erosion risk management and related themes are available though the Safecoast internet site. With over 70,000 unique visitors in 3 years, the Safecoast internet site will continue to be an information exchange platform for research, policy and management, especially in view of sharing best practices as part of the implementation of the EU floods directive (2007) and EU recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management (2002). Also, knowledge and information gathered in the framework of Safecoast may provide valuable resources to pending European policy (e.g. related to climate change adaptation).

Thematic information

Water management Managing natural and man-made threats, risk management

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management/ RIKZ

Address: P.O. Box 20907, Kortenaerkade 1, NL-2500 EX The Hague, Netherlands

Legal status: n/a

Ministry of Traffic Danish Coastal Authority / Kystdirektoratet

Name: Ministry of Traffic Danish Coastal Authority / Kystdirektoratet

Address: 7620 Lemvig, Denmark

Legal status: n/a

Flemish Government - Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services - Division Coast

Name: Flemish Government - Agency for Maritime and Coastal Services - Division Coast

Address: CZ-118 01 Prague 1, Czech Republic

Legal status: n/a

Schleswig-Holstein State Ministry of the Interior

Name: Schleswig-Holstein State Ministry of the Interior

Address: 24105 Kiel, Germany

Legal status: n/a

Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap Afdeling Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium en Hydrologisch Onderzoek

Name: Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap Afdeling Waterbouwkundig Laboratorium en Hydrologisch Onderzoek

Address: 2000 Antwerpen, Belgium

Legal status: n/a

Environment Agency, National Flood Risk Management Policy Team

Name: Environment Agency, National Flood Risk Management Policy Team

Address: LS6 1PF Leeds, United Kingdom

Legal status: n/a

NLWK, Betriebsstelle Norden

Name: NLWK, Betriebsstelle Norden

Address: D-26624 Südbrookmerland, Germany

Legal status: n/a

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Summary

Project name (EN): Sustainable Coastal Risk Management in 2050

Project acronym: SAFECOAST

Project start date: 2004-11-30

Project end date: 2008-06-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 2 325 230.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 162 613.00

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Financing programme

2000 - 2006 North Sea Region

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2019-04-25

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

70 / 70 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

557 / 557 (100%)

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Sustainable Coastal Risk Management in 2050

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