INGV hosted the final event of the European project SAVEMEDCOASTS for the assessment of coastal risks caused by sea level rise
The final conference of the SAVEMEDCOASTS project – “Sea level rise scenarios along the Mediterranean coasts” was held at the Rome headquarters of the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV). , funded by the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid of the European Union (DG-ECHO) for 2017-2018.
Augusto Neri, director of the Volcanoes Department of INGV, the project partners, AUTH – Università Aristotle of Thessaloniki, CGIAM - Center for Integrated Geomorphology for the Mediterranean Area, CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, stakeholders (ISOTECH – Environmental Research and Consultancy, Cyprus; PEDIN – Regional Union of Municipalities of Ionian Islands, Greece ) and the press.
"DG-ECHO officer Dr. Liassides Panayiotis also participated in the day" underlines Marco Anzidei, INGV lead researcher and project coordinator, who appreciated the activities and the results obtained, in the spirit of service for the coastal populations of the Mediterranean".
The aim of the meeting was to present the state of the art of the project. In particular, the scientific motivations and the main phases of SAVEMEDCOASTS which follow the international guidelines for the integrated management of the coastal strip and of the resident populations, the sea level rise projections along the Mediterranean coasts up to 2100, the impact assessments socio-economic factors due to expected flooding linked to climate change (useful for the adoption of measures to prevent and mitigate the phenomenon) and some case studies on expected scenarios of coastal flooding in Italy, Greece, France and Egypt, also due to storms and tsunamis.
“Based on the climate scenarios of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) and the geospatial data analyzed by SAVEMEDCOASTS and shared through a Web-GIS accessible from the project website, high-resolution maps have also been created to describe the expected scenarios for specific areas which also include sites registered by UNESCO”, concludes Marco Anzidei.
Image - Map of coastal lowlands prone to marine flooding in the Mediterranean region. Coastal plains with a height of less than 2 m above sea level are highlighted in blue.
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