Using Seagrass as Insulation Material

Publication: Article
Citation: Stelljes, Nico (2021): Using seagrass as insulation material. In: Baltic Stories Magazine, 2. Page 16-17. https://issuu.com/pomorskieregion/docs/baltic_stories_magazine_issue_2_final

"Using Seagrass as Insulation Material" by Nico Stelljes is published in the "Baltic Stories Magazine" that is devoted to promoting cooperation around the Baltic Sea, joint initiatives and projects of the European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR).

The short paper gives an example of how to use Segrass in a sustainable way. It was embedded in the INNOVA project. INNOVA was a European research project dedicated to developing climate services at different innovation hubs. One of these innovation hubs, located at the Bay of Kiel in Germany, was led by Ecologic Institute. The core themes of the innovation hub were

how the issue of beach wrack affects coastal management, and
how climate change might have an impact on beach wrack.

This issue of the Baltic Stories Magazine has been created by the "Pomorskie in the European Union" Association within the Let's Communicate! project.

Seagrass from the Baltic Sea was used to insulate a roof.

Societal Local and Regional Resiliency Spurred by Contextualized Climate Services

The role of culture in co-production

Year 2022

Publication:Article

Focusing on urban and rural development at the regional and local level as key areas of application for climate services, the paper characterizes this valley of death and suggests options to bridge the gap. The authors, among them Ecologic Institute's Dr. Grit Martinez, suggest that reframing of the concept of climate services can help expand their applications and effectiveness, taking local non-climate challenges, opportunities and narratives into account.

Reframing Climate Services to Support Municipal and Regional Planning

Year 2021

Publication:Article

Cover of publication with text and logos

Recent and historic high-impact events have demonstrated significant flood risks to many coastal areas in Europe and across the globe. Understanding the behavior of humans in relation to risk management poses grand challenges for both natural and social sciences and humanities. The study analyzes the cultural aspects of coastal risk management and illustrates path-dependencies of concrete disaster risk reduction measures in relation to local contexts in European coastal regions in Northern and South Western Europe. Dr. Grit Martinez from Ecologic Institute co-authored the journal article.

The Role of Culture and Informal Aspects for Coastal Disaster Risk Reduction Measures

Empirical Evidence from Northern and Southern Europe, Advances in Climate Change Research

Year 2020

Publication:Fact Sheet

This fact sheet for the project INNOVA illustrates a literature review on the effects of climate change on beach wrack landing on the German Baltic Shore. Beach wrack consists mainly of bladderwrack and seagrass and it is likely that climate change will have various effects on these plants. Aspects like rising water temperature, erosion, changes in salinity, eutrophication or oxygen deficiency are all affected by climate change. This will have direct effects on the composition and amount of beach wrack landing on the Baltic Sea shores.

INNOVA Beach Wrack Fact Sheet

Kiel Bay: Projected Climate Changes and Impacts on Beach Wrack

Year 2021

Presentation:Speech

The concept of climate services is rapidly climbing research-funding agendas word-wide. Initially climate services focused on improving access to climate data but have since evolved into user informed activities. Still, there is a long way to go to make climate services not only usable but also useful for regional and local decision maker. Paying attention to this matter, the sixth International Climate Service Conference in Pune, India focused among others on the architecture of user participation, contextualization of climate services and ethical question on its provision. Dr. Grit Martinez of Ecologic Institute presented the Institute's recent research results from the European research project Innovation in Climate Service Provision.

On the Way to Demand Driven Climate Services

12 February 2020
Dr. Grit Martinez

Publication:Article

Profound societal transformations are needed to move society from unsustainability to greater sustainability under continually changing social and environmental conditions. A key challenge is to understand the influences on and the dynamics of collective behavior change toward sustainability. In this paper, the authors of whom Grit Martinez of Ecologic Institute is one, demonstrate how affective narrative expressions influence transitions to more sustainable collective behaviors.

Influence of Narratives of Vision and Identity on Collective Behavior Change

Year 2019

Presentation:Panel discussion

From 11 until 14 June 2018 transitions scholars and stakeholders from around the world met for the 9th International Sustainability Transitions (IST) conference in Manchester (United Kingdom). Dr. Grit Martinez of Ecologic Institute spoke in a dialogue session about cultural conventions, system reconfigurations and transitions.

Sustainability Transitions: What is the stake of cultural conventions?

13 June 2018
Dr. Grit Martinez

Presentation:Speech

From 26 to 28 April 2018, the Global Forum on Urban Resilience and Adaptation took place in Bonn (Germany), just after the March Cities IPCC Conference, a few days ahead of the midyear Bonn climate talks and a few months before nations review SDG 11 on cities and human settlements. For the INNOVA project, Dr. Grit Martinez of Ecologic Institute presented INNOVA's approach to risk assessment in the session "Assessing urban risk and vulnerability and prioritizing action." The presentation slides are available for download.

Assessing Urban Risk and Vulnerability and Prioritizing Action

26 - 28 April 2018
Dr. Grit Martinez

Project

The research project INNOVA will consolidate key factors from adaptive management strategies from leading earlier and on-going European initiatives in Spain (Valencia), Germany (Bay of Kiel) and the Netherlands (Nijmegen) and France’ overseas territories in Guadeloupe and Martinique. INNOVA intends to provide prototypes of climate services including business models, practical frameworks, and recommendations for creating and up-scaling opportunities while adapting to a changing climate.

Innovation in Climate Services Provision (INNOVA)

Oct 2017 - Sep 2020

Language: English
Authorship: Dr. Nico Stelljes
Funding: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
Published in: Baltic Stories Magazine, issue 2, 2021
Published by: Issuu
Year: 2021
Dimension: 2 pp.
Project: Innovation in Climate Services Provision (INNOVA)
Project ID: 2294
Keywords: Coastal + Marine

Resource Conservation + Circular Economy

Climate change, adaptation, risk management, climate service, perception, emotion, culture, oral history, ethnography, transdisciplinarity, innovation, transformation, change

Europe, European Overseas Territories