17 Partners 9 Expert Couplets (collectives) Total: € 6 million Locally: € 750,000 North East Couplet
Why? To increase our capacity to respond to the ecological, social and economic impacts of climate change on the viability of coastal sectors To identify and implement the adaptation measures that need to be applied to coastal use and management.
Objective and aim of IMCORE Innovative management to adapt coastal areas to climate change To create a trans-national, innovative and sustainable approach to reducing the ecological, social and economic impacts of climate change on the coastal resources of North West Europe.
Process of IMCORE Using Expert Couplets and Transnational Working Groups….. Developing and Develop a range DISSEMINATING of TOOLS and CONTENT approaches to ADAPTATION Identify ISSUES and Evaluate the SCENARIOS planning of from all nine ADAPTATION couplets STRATEGIES Communities & Provide professional GUIDANCE bodies learn for LOCAL how to ADAPT and TO CHANGE REGIONAL bodies
North East Regional Initiative Working through IMCORE the North East have set up an initiative called ForeSea Backing the project is a wide scope of expertise from the ForeSea project board and from the other IMCORE trans-national expert couplet nodes
ForeSea Initiative Map a range of regional sea level rise scenarios Setup an effective North East Coastal Network Document the process of working with local communities on tourism, commercial fishing and coastal protection
ForeSea Partners o Environment Agency o Envision o Durham Heritage Coast o Northumberland AONB o Natural England o Government Office for the North East o Climate NE Partnership o Marine Management Organisation (MMO) o Royal Haskoning
Case Studies Tourism Coastal Defence www.economist.com Commercial fishing
Enabling coastal managers across North West Europe and North East England to improve strategies for adaptation to climate change
Keep in touch Maeve Lee Durham Heritage Coast Partnership County Hall Durham DH1 5UQ T: 0191 383 5527 E: maeve.lee@durham.gov.uk www.imcore.eu www.envision.uk.com www.durhamheritagecoast.org
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