PHUSICOS platform: Nature-based solutions to reduce risk in mountain landscapes

PHUSICOS platform aims at gathering nature-based solutions (NBS) relevant to reduce hydro-geological risks in mountain landscapes. The platform can be accessed directly through a web portal It is based on an Open Source CMS website, including a filer to store documents and a map server to bring ergonomic and powerful access. Furthermore, a list of metadata has been proposed to structure the information. These metadata have provided the baseline for database content and the platform has been filed with the literature review of existing NBSs related to extreme hydro-meteorological events. In particular this review integrates existing case studies presented in existing platforms. That is why PHUSICOS platform has been built to be coherent with these platforms. Nine platforms were identified during the inventory of NBSs of interest for PHUSICOS: Oppla, Think Nature, NAIAD, The European Climate Adaptation Platform (CLIM-ADAPT), Urban Nature Atlas, Prevention Web, Adaptation Community, PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet and RECONNECT.

Contribution to PHUSICOS platform is open to registered users. A questionnaire based on relevant data, necessary for the definition and identification of the NBS (metadata, to be used for searching the NBSs within the platform) has been defined to enter new entries. Next step will be the implementation of the evaluation for providing a ranking list of NBS according to a multi-criteria approach.

The platform now gathers 46 entries and will be enriched all along the project, in particular with NBS that will be implemented in PHUSICOS demonstrator sites: the Serchio River Basin (Italy), the Valley of Gudbrandsdalen (Norway) and the Pyrenees (Spain-France-Andorra).

The full structure of the platform and preliminary content are presented in this work.