CLIMATE RESILIENT-REGIONS THROUGH SYSTEMIC SOLUTIONS AND INNOVATIONS

The aim of the EU-funded ARSINOE project is to leverage innovation for climate adaptation across a series of key systems – from biodiversity to flooding and sea level rise and from droughts and water scarcity to heatwaves and deforestation. ARSINOE will build an ecosystem for solutions to climate change adaptation. It will develop a methodological framework for combining the systems innovation approach with the Climate Innovation Window, a reference portal, to create a new three-tier approach that will be showcased in nine widely varied demonstrators, as a proof of concept. The project’s overall aim is to show the way towards a green, digital, inclusive, resilient and sustainable future.

ARSINOE will shape the pathways to resilience by bringing together SIA (Systems Innovation Approach) and CIW (Climate Innovation Window) with the purpose to build an ecosystem for climate change adaptation solutions. Within the ARSINOE ecosystem, pathways to solutions are co-created and co-designed by stakeholders, who can then select either existing CIW technologies, or technologies by new providers (or a combination) to form an innovation package.

Adaptation to climate change refers to all approaches taken to adjust, prepare for, and accommodate new conditions that are created by changing climates.

For natural-resource managers, adaptation strategies also include actions taken to assist natural resources (species, habitats, forest plantations, watersheds) in accommodating new conditions imposed by climate, but also facing socio-economic impacts brought about by a worsening climate migration crisis.

As climate change is complex and interconnected with other global challenges, such as food security, water scarcity, biodiversity depletion and environmental degradation, it is insufficient to use traditional approaches to innovation that focus on one aspect of the problem.

This is why we need Systems Innovation Approach (SIA) to address the growing complexity, interdependencies and interconnectedness of modern societies and economies, focusing on the functions of the cross-sectoral system “as a whole” and on the variety of actors

Within ARSINOE, DTU (Martin Drews) leads WP3 (Dynamic Multi-Sectoral Resilience Modelling and Assessment Framework) and Task 3.3 (Climate projections of multi-hazards and multi-risks) - in close collaboration with Professor Ralf Ludwig, LMU. DTU also contributes to a number of other WP3 tasks, in particular Task 3.4 (led by Ralf Ludwig, LMU). The majority of these activities relates to extreme and compound climate events (using novel ML/AI methods), storm surges, extreme precipitation and droughts.

Together with Municipality of Esbjerg (Bodil Ankjær Nielsen), DTU leads Case Study (CS) 7: Southern Denmark / Wadden Sea Region. Other partners and affiliates include other Wadden Sea municipalities (Varde, Fanø and Tønder), Danish Coastal Authority and LNH Water A/S,

Martin Drews serves as Data Officer for ARSINOE.

ARSINOE is funded by Horizon 2020 Green Deal and coordinated by the Professor Chrysi Laspidou and Dr, Giannis Adamos, University of Thessaly.

The aim of the EU-funded ARSINOE project is to leverage innovation for climate adaptation across a series of key systems – from biodiversity to flooding and sea level rise and from droughts and water scarcity to heatwaves and deforestation. ARSINOE will build an ecosystem for solutions to climate change adaptation. It will develop a methodological framework for combining the systems innovation approach with the Climate Innovation Window, a reference portal, to create a new three-tier approach that will be showcased in nine widely varied demonstrators, as a proof of concept. The project’s overall aim is to show the way towards a green, digital, inclusive, resilient and sustainable future.