About the project

The approach that addresses the challenges and needs identified - urban flooding caused by torrential rains, turbulent wind, long lasting drought, overheating which causes so-called urban heat islands – will constitute in mobilizing social and ecological capital for strengthening urban climate resilience. It will mean actions aiming at a strong engagement of stakeholders and use of synergies between actions addressing technical, social and environmental innovations. The approach applied in the project is meeting the needs for strengthening urban climate resilience by mobilizing sustainable processes of common actions of the communities starting with raising awareness and involvement of local inhabitants in the development of adaptation strategies, identification of proper territory based actions, management of shared and divided responsibilities for implementation of particular interventions and their use in self learning process in the community. This approach aims to start a domino effect that produces, in the long term, appreciable results even on a larger scale. To this purpose, CICADA4CE project intends to adopt specific strategies aimed at modifying the mindset and behaviours of citizens and administrations and to commit them to jointly reach the common goal. The project combines the potential of people who are aware of the necessity for climate change adaptation and believe in the powerful strength of ecosystem services which is to be mobilized by them. So first people are to be convinced that ES potential can and has to support climate change adaptation – there are already many methods for estimation, evaluation, assessment of the value of ES – and then these people can and should mobilize this potential for acting towards climate change adaptation in urban areas. The concept of ecosystem and community based adaptation will be applied in suitable action plans for the cities and further tested by means of pilot actions, which will give innovative solutions.