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Scope for innovation are: Rewilding urban areas and shorelines to reduce the impacts of flooding in Torbay integrated with water sensitive urban planning, design and infrastructure, community-based nature reserves, micro-projects etc
CarneyTorbay, a coastal community in South Devon, faces challenges from climate change, flooding, rising sea levels, and coastal erosion. To build a resilient community, we propose an innovative project that integrates local initiatives and nature-based solutions. This project aims to develop and share new local solutions through community engagement, resulting in a sustainable program that enhances climate resilience.
Proposed Solutions:
Rewilding and Living Shorelines: Restore natural ecosystems with native vegetation and wetlands to buffer against flooding and erosion, using natural materials for shoreline protection.
Community-Based Nature Reserves: Empower local communities to manage nature reserves, fostering environmental stewardship and sustainable practices.
Micro-Projects for Flood Mitigation: Implement small-scale initiatives like rain gardens, permeable paving, and green roofs to reduce flood risks and enhance community resilience.
Citizen Science, River and Coastal Monitoring: Engage community members in monitoring coastal changes and collecting data on water quality to enhance resilience measures.
Regenerative Horticulture for Climate Adaptation: Promote soil health and ecosystem restoration practices to increase biodiversity, improve water infiltration, and support climate adaptation.
Community-Led Flood Forecasting Systems: Develop localized flood forecasting systems using real-time data and citizen observations for timely alerts and preparedness.
Resilience Gardens and Community Food Hubs: Establish community spaces for growing food, sharing resources, and promoting sustainable practices to enhance food security and community bonds.
Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Local Businesses: Support eco-tourism and local businesses employing eco-friendly practices to promote economic resilience and environmental stewardship.
Digital Platforms for Community Engagement: Utilize online platforms to facilitate communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among residents, organizations, and policymakers.
Skills Development and Training Programs: Invest in training programs on natural processes, flood preparedness, and community resilience to empower residents as active agents of change.
By implementing these solutions, CarneyTorbay can enhance its resilience to climate change impacts, foster local engagement, and build a stronger, more innovative community.
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Through asset-based community development approaches to working and our extensive community networks we would lead on empowering communities to find their own solutions that benefit the whole community. Through this work we want to create a model for asset based community development of natural spaces.
Education and School-Focused Innovations: Create curriculum packages for climate change education in schools and promote local environmental awareness. We currently use shared learning methods and peer support group learning for a range of projects and would develop the model to encompass environmental awareness and would support micro funded approaches to deliver creative environmental learning. Water Reuse and Rainwater Management: Explore community rainwater sharing, sustainable water use, and green/blue space strategies. We would be promoting low cost solutions for flood mitigation in homes, yards, community and green/blue spaces:
Flood Focused Digital Solutions: Use existing data and machine learning for flood and asset warnings, along with resource allocation during floods. Studies are currently being carried outby Exeter University with infrastructure organisations in Torbay and the impacts are being developed in to predictive modelling systems. Our aim with this project is to make the models available to local communities, translated if necessary, and reference them with localised historic knowledge.
Flood Focused Infrastructure and People Solutions: Develop flood barriers for harbours andhigh-risk roads, and enhance communication for coordinated responses. Our ole through the project would be to ensure that there were community networks in place to respond to flood events through coordinated localised communication.
Health: Implement accessible health programs addressing climate impacts and mapping health inequalities. CDT and the wider VCSE network in Torbay have a range of programmes work at grassroots levels to improve health inequalities – including loneliness, isolation, health and wellbeing, activity and community action.
Our asset-based / strength-based ways of working have been developed over the last 8 years – and has aspects that are specific Torbay, even though the principles are universal. It has taken time to develop a community builder team culture, trust in the processes of codesign and collaboration by the community and an extensive community network across all neighborhoods in Torbay. We focus on peoples passions and ambitions, local action, positive solutions, wise use of resources and allowing local people to take the lead. We are continually learning better approaches from our communities. Traditionally this way of working has been to address social, health and power inequalities. CDT and Torbay are considered innovators in this way of working with the community and we have influenced the strategies of social programmes in other areas of the UK through our work. We want to demonstrate that these processes have a place in addressing climate change and improving our natural environment.
Asset-based working does require coordination, a unique set of learned skills, trust and collaboration, staged resourcing and at least 20years of coordinated input for it to be embedded in the culture of a community. Collaboration across sectors is crucial – but when groups and organisations work in siloes community development is restricted. For this application I am aware you may consider the proposal too open – but our experience is that if you take time to cultivate initiative in local communities then the solutions that emerge are solution focused, tangible and specific, sometimes surprising and wonderful, often inexpensive, and not always approaches you could have planned for, but when embraced by sectors in the community they become long term solutions. Arsinoe funding isn’t a long-term solution but it would allow us to kick-start a new set of initiatives in the community. We have already identified a large appetite among young people and community groups to promote environmental awareness and address climate change. We also believe if the focus is entirely on addressing the problems created by flooding then sectors of our communities will switch-off and disregard the reality of climate change – but if we focus on improving local communities, understanding of water catchments and take a broader approach to the relationship between natural and built environments, then people will be more open to engage.
Scope for innovation are: Rewilding urban areas and shorelines to reduce the impacts of flooding in Torbay integrated with water sensitive urban planning, design and infrastructure, community-based nature reserves, micro-projects etc
CarneyTorbay, a coastal community in South Devon, faces challenges from climate change, flooding, rising sea levels, and coastal erosion. To build a resilient community, we propose an innovative project that integrates local initiatives and nature-based solutions. This project aims to develop and share new local solutions through community engagement, resulting in a sustainable program that enhances climate resilience.
Proposed Solutions:
Rewilding and Living Shorelines: Restore natural ecosystems with native vegetation and wetlands to buffer against flooding and erosion, using natural materials for shoreline protection.
Community-Based Nature Reserves: Empower local communities to manage nature reserves, fostering environmental stewardship and sustainable practices.
Micro-Projects for Flood Mitigation: Implement small-scale initiatives like rain gardens, permeable paving, and green roofs to reduce flood risks and enhance community resilience.
Citizen Science, River and Coastal Monitoring: Engage community members in monitoring coastal changes and collecting data on water quality to enhance resilience measures.
Regenerative Horticulture for Climate Adaptation: Promote soil health and ecosystem restoration practices to increase biodiversity, improve water infiltration, and support climate adaptation.
Community-Led Flood Forecasting Systems: Develop localized flood forecasting systems using real-time data and citizen observations for timely alerts and preparedness.
Resilience Gardens and Community Food Hubs: Establish community spaces for growing food, sharing resources, and promoting sustainable practices to enhance food security and community bonds.
Eco-Tourism and Sustainable Local Businesses: Support eco-tourism and local businesses employing eco-friendly practices to promote economic resilience and environmental stewardship.
Digital Platforms for Community Engagement: Utilize online platforms to facilitate communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration among residents, organizations, and policymakers.
Skills Development and Training Programs: Invest in training programs on natural processes, flood preparedness, and community resilience to empower residents as active agents of change.
By implementing these solutions, CarneyTorbay can enhance its resilience to climate change impacts, foster local engagement, and build a stronger, more innovative community.
The main components of the system have been tested separately, and an initial integration exercise has been conducted.
Through asset-based community development approaches to working and our extensive community networks we would lead on empowering communities to find their own solutions that benefit the whole community. Through this work we want to create a model for asset based community development of natural spaces.
Education and School-Focused Innovations: Create curriculum packages for climate change education in schools and promote local environmental awareness. We currently use shared learning methods and peer support group learning for a range of projects and would develop the model to encompass environmental awareness and would support micro funded approaches to deliver creative environmental learning. Water Reuse and Rainwater Management: Explore community rainwater sharing, sustainable water use, and green/blue space strategies. We would be promoting low cost solutions for flood mitigation in homes, yards, community and green/blue spaces:
Flood Focused Digital Solutions: Use existing data and machine learning for flood and asset warnings, along with resource allocation during floods. Studies are currently being carried outby Exeter University with infrastructure organisations in Torbay and the impacts are being developed in to predictive modelling systems. Our aim with this project is to make the models available to local communities, translated if necessary, and reference them with localised historic knowledge.
Flood Focused Infrastructure and People Solutions: Develop flood barriers for harbours andhigh-risk roads, and enhance communication for coordinated responses. Our ole through the project would be to ensure that there were community networks in place to respond to flood events through coordinated localised communication.
Health: Implement accessible health programs addressing climate impacts and mapping health inequalities. CDT and the wider VCSE network in Torbay have a range of programmes work at grassroots levels to improve health inequalities – including loneliness, isolation, health and wellbeing, activity and community action.
Our asset-based / strength-based ways of working have been developed over the last 8 years – and has aspects that are specific Torbay, even though the principles are universal. It has taken time to develop a community builder team culture, trust in the processes of codesign and collaboration by the community and an extensive community network across all neighborhoods in Torbay. We focus on peoples passions and ambitions, local action, positive solutions, wise use of resources and allowing local people to take the lead. We are continually learning better approaches from our communities. Traditionally this way of working has been to address social, health and power inequalities. CDT and Torbay are considered innovators in this way of working with the community and we have influenced the strategies of social programmes in other areas of the UK through our work. We want to demonstrate that these processes have a place in addressing climate change and improving our natural environment.
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