Resilient, inclusive, healthy and green rural, coastal and urban communities

Under this destination, transdisciplinary R&I with a strong social and behavioural sciences dimension, and attention to gender aspects, will foster a sustainable, balanced and inclusive development of rural, coastal and urban areas in three different ways:

  • Firstly, it will aim to increase our understanding of the differential impacts of climate, environmental, socio- economic and demographic changes on rural, coastal and urban areas in order to identify ways to turn these changes into equal opportunities for people wherever they live, enhancing territorial cohesion and enabling a just transition.
  • Secondly, it will explore innovative ways to tailor policy responses to the place-based challenges identified at various levels of governance. 
  • Thirdly, it will support bottom-up community-led innovation to empower communities to develop, test and upscale solutions that answer global challenges in locally adapted ways. Achieving policy goals require to provide people with more equitable access to the knowledge and skills required to make informed choices and be actively engaged in sustainable management of natural resources, from production or service provision to consumption and disposal.

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