EU H2020 GREEN DEAL: WaterLANDS

WaterLANDS: Water based solutions for carbon storage, people and wilderness. This European project aims to restore European wetlands – including coastal wetlands – together with surrounding communities.

Due to changes in land use, many species of plants and animals, as well as hidden ecosystem services such as retention of water and carbon and natural coastal adaptation, have disappeared from the landscape. Consequences of these changes are increased flooding, soil subsidence and deteriorated water quality.

WaterLANDS aims to bring together best practices from fragmented restoration projects across Europe in order to define solutions that benefit both environment and people. The best practices will be tested by restoring wetlands, including coastal marshes.

One of the restoration action sites is the Ems-Dollard estuary, where already several nature based adaptations are implemented. Research activities within WaterLANDS have to be aligned with the ambitions of the Eems Dollard 2050 program.