Resilience and inclusive pathways to a blue economy in coastal regions

Coastal regions are often characterised by strategic socio-economic assets. This makes coastsparticularly sensitive to Climate Change (CC) impacts, which primarily expose infrastructure and localpopulation. Human activities are also responsible for additional pressures on coastal ecosystems, oftenaggravating vulnerabilities from CC. Coastal area adaptation strategies should be iterative and dynamic, dueto the evolving dynamics of coastal territorial systems.It is argued that governing Land-Sea Interactions (LSI) and the coastal zones is particularly prone toproblems of observation (between land and sea, between the centre and coastal margin) and complex interdependencies(between social and ecological systems, between actors managing risk) at different levels(landscape, regime, and niche). Governing LSI requires a multi-actor and multi-level perspective applied asmethodological frameworks to governance and new forms of policy integration. Therefore, the growth of thepressures induced on the global marine environment urgently requires more sustainable coastal andmaritime management.OCEANIDS is a HORIZON-MISS-CLIMA project. Its aims is building user-driven applications and tools, toachieve a more resilient and inclusive systemic pathway to a Blue Economy in coastal regions. The projecthas a strong focus on behavioral change, both on individual as well as on a systemic level, enablingparticipating regions and communities to better understand and use potential social tipping points andsystemic leverage points to accelerate transformative changes towards climate resilience.