Hydro-resilience: Citizen and Open Science for Climate Adaptation

Human-induced climate change is affecting weather and climate extremes worldwide, causing alterations in the atmosphere, ocean, cryosphere and biosphere with widespread adverse impacts on people and nature. These changes in environmental conditions have far-reaching consequences, leaving entire communities and ecosystems at risk due to reduced water security.

Despite advances in climate and water sciences, a significant gap remains between the availability of information and its integration by stakeholders. Incomplete knowledge limits the development and implementation of effective adaptation strategies and policies against hydro-climatic vulnerability on a local level.

The integration of citizen engagement and open science offers new opportunities to involve local communities in the development of climate risk strategies and to ensure that these communities can harness the foresight provided by climate science. 

In that sense, the project “Hydro-Resilience: Citizen and Open Science for Climate Adaptation” was developed to pilot Citizen and Open Science applications for climate risk management and to support water management under climate change uncertainty. The specific objectives of the project include:

• Improve capacities on hydroclimatic vulnerability and water resilience management

• Promote knowledge generation and validation through citizen and open science

• Implement citizen and open science to enhance capacities of water management through CRIDA

• Support hydroclimatic risk management strategies and policies in pilot countries