The overarching goal is to inform the development of transdisciplinary techniques that combine knowledge, mātauranga, local and historical knowledge, lived experience and science to help foster resilient coastal ecosystems that can adapt to sea-level rise while supporting community values.
Key objectives for the project are to:
- Collect and analyse local values and perspectives through participatory research on the focus ecosystems within the study area.
- Review and test the application of selected assessment frameworks for characterising, communicating, and informing policy on management priorities for these ecosystems.
- Develop sea-level rise and ecosystem transition scenarios at case study locations.
- Identify adaptation strategies and resilience building measures that are appropriate for case study locations and contexts as informed by local values and perspectives.
- Apply the scenario models and associated values information to evaluate what communities stand to lose and what can be gained from selected adaptation options.
- Identify key barriers and enabling factors that could help facilitate the ecosystem transitions and land-use changes that would be needed to implement these options.
Resilient Coasts & Communities 