Funded by the Water4All Partnership, the GreenAdapt2Extremes project aims to co-create, with various stakeholder groups in three river basins at high risk of floods and droughts in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands, adaptation processes based on nature-based solutions (NbS). The overall goal is to ensure water security and strengthen resilience and nature conservation in light of the increasing extreme events of floods and droughts due to climate change.
The project is structured into six Work Packages (WPs): GreenAdapt2Extremes: co-creation of visions for a resilient future of watersheds (WP1); (ii) collaborative assessment of causes, factors, dynamics, and interconnections of current and future multi-risks for ecosystems, economic sectors, and people related to floods and droughts, taking into account changes in water availability and demand (WP2); co-identification of adaptation options and co-creation of “green adaptation pathways” at the basin level with a particular focus on NbS (WP3); co-evaluation of adaptation options and pathways in terms of social acceptance, equity, benefits, and limits of disaster risk reduction (DRR), potential co-benefits, and maladaptive consequences considering also enabling factors and obstacles to the implementation of NbS (WP4); mapping of existing governance structures and co-creation of suggestions for multi-level water governance (WP5); promotion of international cooperation, collaborative learning, and knowledge transfer (WP6).
CIMA Research Foundation’s contribution
CIMA Research Foundation leads the activities dedicated to studying the causes and dynamics characterizing the risk of flood and drought in the current and future climate, based on which adaptation pathways will be co-created in three vulnerable basins to floods and droughts in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. In particular, we work on the case study of the Aosta Valley, where we primarily deal with the quantification of current and future risk and the co-creation, with local stakeholders, of possible adaptation pathways, as well as their evaluation.
