Vídeo de apresentação COAST4US
Recentemente, publicámos nas nossas redes sociais o vídeo de apresentação do projeto. Aqui fica também para os visitantes do nosso website 🙂 https://youtu.be/7bXsFunlngI
THE PROJECT
Around the world, coastal areas are regarded as places of social and economic prosperity. However, the coast is also exposed to serious threats. Coastal erosion is one of the main risks associated with coastal areas. This phenomenon can cause high losses, with a particular focus on urban fronts. The COAST4US project - Application of the COAST tool to the Portuguese coast - aims to contribute to a more efficient mitigation of this problem, by providing decision-makers with more and better information for decision-making, by simulating scenarios of coastline evolution before the execution of a given intervention, as well as its cost-benefit ratio in relation to the current situation.
Thus, the COAST4US project intends to develop a study that validates and establishes COAST - cost-benefit analysis software for coastal interventions - as a reference tool at the national and international level. To this end, the COAST will be applied to several stretches of the Portuguese coast that face coastal erosion problems, contributing not only to better future coastal management, but also a fundamental contribution to the present coastal management.
CASE STUDIES
AveiroFigueira da FozCaparica
The coastal transect selected in Aveiro district is located from São Jacinto to Gafanha da Boa Hora. Thus, it encompasses 3 municipalities – Aveiro, Ílhavo and Vagos. The coastal stretch has around 22km and includes areas with a reasonable population density and tourist potential, such as Barra beach, Costa Nova and Vagueira.
Aceda aqui a visita virtual dos resultados em Aveiro:
Vagueira Beach
Tamargueira Beach. Photography by MEOBeachcam.
The Figueira da Foz coastal stretch extends from Cabo Mondego to Cova Gala beach. This coastal stretch has about 12 km that encompasses the entire urban front of Figueira da Foz, as well as the Mondego estuary, an area with a long history of interventions aiming to improve the navigability of the estuary, but which also lead to a high level of erosion on the beaches south of the interventions.
Due to the high tourist and bathing potential of the area, it is of all interest to present solutions that aim to balance all activities present in this region.
The section to be analyzed in Caparica has a length of about 5 km, from Cova do Vapor to Cornélia. This area, part of the municipality of Almada, is also highly affected by coastal erosion. On the other hand, its tourist potential, due to its proximity to Lisbon, means that this coastal stretch has a unique importance in the social and economic development of the area.
Saúde Beach. Photography by MEOBeachcam
Aveiro
The coastal transect selected in Aveiro district is located from São Jacinto to Gafanha da Boa Hora. Thus, it encompasses 3 municipalities – Aveiro, Ílhavo and Vagos. The coastal stretch has around 22km and includes areas with a reasonable population density and tourist potential, such as Barra beach, Costa Nova and Vagueira.
Praia da Vagueira.
Figueira da Foz
The Figueira da Foz coastal stretch extends from Cabo Mondego to Cova Gala beach. This coastal stretch has about 12 km that encompasses the entire urban front of Figueira da Foz, as well as the Mondego estuary, an area with a long history of interventions aiming to improve the navigability of the estuary, but which also lead to a high level of erosion on the beaches south of the interventions.
Due to the high tourist and bathing potential of the area, it is of all interest to present solutions that aim to balance all activities present in this region.
Figueira da Foz. Foto por MEOBeachcam.
Caparica
The section to be analyzed in Caparica has a length of about 5 km, from Cova do Vapor to Cornélia. This area, part of the municipality of Almada, is also highly affected by coastal erosion. On the other hand, its tourist potential, due to its proximity to Lisbon, means that this coastal stretch has a unique importance in the social and economic development of the area.
Caparica. Foto por MEOBeachcam.
NEWS!
Confira as fotos e vídeo do evento final!
O Cais Criativo na Costa Nova foi o palco para a celebração da conclusão do COAST4US!
Um dia repleto de boas discussões e interatividade.
(Carregue na imagem ao lado!)
Vídeo do evento final:
Sessão de apresentação pública do COAST4US
No dia 25 de Maio, pelas 17:30, irá dar-se a sessão de apresentação oficial do projeto COAST4US! Além da apresentação do projeto, contaremos com oradores muito especiais, que partilharão a sua experiência ao nível de gestão das zonas costeiras. Contamos com a tua participação para um debate acerca dos benefícios que trazem as zonas costeiras e o quão importante é protegê-las. Podes fazer a tua inscrição AQUI.
Social networks!
We have just launched our social networks! Follow us on Facebook, at www.facebook.com/project.coast4us/ or Linkedin, at www.linkedin.com/showcase/coast4us
Our website!
Welcome to our website! It was made for you to have an idea of what the project is about and we hope to post news here! Anyone who wants to comment or contribute with information, opinions or suggestions, feel free to fill out the form below, or send an email to contact.us@coast4us.pt. We will also enthusiastically welcome any stories or photos related to study sites or coastal erosion in general 🙂 Thank you all!
WHO ARE WE?
O projeto COAST4US é promovido pela R5e Consulting Engineers, em parceria com a R5m Marine Solutions e a Universidade de Aveiro. Conta ainda com o apoio da Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente (APA). O projeto é financiado pelos EEA Grants, ao abrigo do Programa Crescimento Azul, gerido pela Direção-Geral de Política do Mar. A nossa equipa é composta por especialistas no domínio das zonas costeiras dos três parceiros envolvidos.
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EEA Grants are a Financial Mechanism through which Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway provide financial support to European Union member states with greater deviations from the European average GDP per capita. The EEA Grants aim to reduce economic and social disparities in the European Economic Area and to strengthen bilateral relations between recipient countries and donor countries.
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THE TEAM
André Cardoso
André Monteiro
Blanca Mendiguren
Bruno Rocha
Carlos Coelho
Catarina Lemos
Márcia Lima
Paulo Santos
Pedro Narra
Caroline Ferreira