Suchergebnisse

This deliverable provides a description of the site and set up of citizen science activities in the Italian case study where the MICS impact assessment will be applied. The Italian case study focuses on the Marzenego River and its tributaries which flow into the Venice Lagoon. The nature-based solutions (NBS) along the Marzenego River have involved restoring two wetlands (Oasi Lycaena and Oasi di Noale) and a new NBS project aims to enlarge the Noale Oasis to increase flood water retention and improve biodiversity. These NBS are the focus of the citizen scientist monitoring activities in the case study. Co-design workshops have identified that the following citizen science monitoring activities will take place: water quality monitoring, bacteriological analysis, riparian vegetation monitoring, aquatic vegetation monitoring. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

Deliverable D4.5 provides a description and evaluation of the findings on the impact of citizen science in the case study sites. The MICS impact assessment approach was applied to the five MICS case study sites across Europe, each of which have differing levels of citizen science engagement and approaches to environmental management. The case study are: (i) Outfall Safari (UK): aims to use citizen science to detect and record pollution from surface water outfalls to gather evidence and report on pollution incidents; (ii) Riverfly Monitoring (UK): aims to monitor key macroinvertebrate species (riverflies) that are indicators of river water quality; (iii) Marzenego River NBS Project (Italy): aims to establish a monitoring program to gauge the effectives of NBS implemented within the Marzenego River catchment; (iv) The Creek Rákos Citizen Science project (Hungary): aims to use citizen science as a means of establishing the baseline condition of the Creek to identify suitable sites for restoration and promote public support for NBS; and, (v) The Carasuhat Wetland NBS Project (Romania): aims to establish a monitoring programme to gauge the effectives of wetland NBS implemented in the Danube Delta. ; This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824711.

Abstract
Climate change is one of the most significant and pressing issues faced by humanity; it frequently results in major natural disasters, such as catastrophic floods, which require the establishment of effective management policies by local and national authorities. These policies involve complex multistep decision-making processes that require combined assessment of various sources of data by different stakeholders. Even though an abundance of data is being collected to monitor climate change and estimate its consequences on the society, the environment, and the economy, policy-making is still largely based on intuition rather than evidence due to lack of a structured approach for modeling the decision-making process and considering the appropriate use of data in every step of the process. The goal of this work is to introduce a novel decision support system that can guide policy makers through a structured data-driven decision-making process aiming to create policies for flood risk management. The proposed system is a multifacet platform that guides policy makers through five phases—inform, advise, monitor, evaluate, and revise—of the policy cycle. For each phase, different dashboards provide relevant information regarding the environmental, social, and economic conditions. To demonstrate the potential of the proposed system, we use it to assess a flood protection policy in the city of Vicenza, Italy. The results reveal the benefits and challenges of the proposed decision support tool for public administrations involved in flood risk management.