A PROactive approach for COmmunities to enAble Societal Transformation

PRO-COAST将在沿海生态系统动态研究中制定、应用和验证一个前沿的业务框架，以造福最易受生物多样性丧失风险影响的人口。这样一个框架需要解决手头复杂的社会生态问题，特别是因为这些问题涉及到对社会及其与生态系统相互作用的动态视角。因此，PRO-COAST框架将基于综合社会生态系统框架（SESF），该框架基于已故诺贝尔奖获得者埃莉诺·奥斯特罗姆的开创性工作。PRO-COAST将应用并验证其整体框架，以确定位于欧洲大陆的九个代表性案例研究中不同子系统的相互作用和动态，包括欧盟和非欧盟地区，涵盖所有五个欧洲沿海地区。沿海生态系统是贯穿所有案例研究的共同主线，但每个案例都提出了一个具体的问题和框架。在每个案例研究中，我们将与当地利益相关者共同制定一套工具和政策，以成功实施生物多样性保护项目。共同创造的两种方法（布里斯托尔方法和极端公民科学（ECS）框架）将用于发展和建立一种参与式方法，这种方法凭借自身的优势，对当地环境做出反应。根据PRO-COAST提高变革社区的能力和复原力的总体目标，将启动一个考虑到技术和社会能力的变革进程。虽然技术方面的变化包括有关生物多样性的新技术和服务，但社会方面的变化侧重于人类对变化的开放和准备。为了实现其目标，PRO-COAST汇集了14个不同国家的20个组织，根据经验，专业知识以及最重要的互补性和跨学科性的标准进行选择。

PRO-COAST will develop, apply and validate a cutting-edge operational framework in the study of coastal ecosystem dynamics for the benefit of the population most exposed to risk deriving from biodiversity loss. Such a framework needs to tackle the complex socialecological issues at hand, particularly so because these issues involve a dynamic perspective on the social as well as its interaction with the ecological system. Hence, the PRO-COAST framework will be based on the integrative Social Ecological Systems framework (SESF), based on the seminal work of the late Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom. PRO-COAST will apply and validate its holistic framework for identifying the interactions and dynamics of the different subsystems in a set of nine representative case studies located on the Europeancontinent, both in EU and non-EU areas, covering all five European coastal regions. The coastal ecosystem is the common thread running through all the case studies, but each one presents a specific issue and framework. In each case study we will co-create together with local stakeholders a set of tools and policies for the successful implementation of biodiversity conservation projects. Two approaches (the Bristol Approach & the Extreme Citizen Science (ECS) framework) to co-creation will be used to develop and establish a participative approach, which is, by virtue, responsive to local contexts. In line with PRO-COAST’s overall objective to increase capacity and resilience within the transformative communities a change process will be initiated, taking into account technical and social capacity. While the technical side of the change comprises new technologies and services regarding biodiversity, the social side of the change focuses on the human’s openness and readiness for change. To achieve its goals, PRO-COAST brings together 20 organisations across 14 different countries, selected on criteria of experience, expertise and most of all complementarity and interdisciplinarity.