RescueME Platform
Resilient Cultural Landscapes
Protecting European Coastal Heritage from Climate Change
About RescueME
RescueME is a Research Action funded by the Horizon Europe programme, focusing on enhancing the resilience of coastal cultural landscapes in Europe. RescueME mobilizes resources, engages stakeholders, facilitates decision making, and enhances the implementation of co-created and just resilience solutions to protect our common heritage.
Explore Our Applications
ATLAS
Regional Analysis
Provides a high-level overview at the NUTS3 level, ideal for broader regional analysis and comparisons across European coastal regions.
- • NUTS3 Level Data
- • 5 Landscape Typologies
- • Risk Assessments
- • Regional Comparisons
ISDSS
Incremental Spatial Decision Support System
Operates at granular levels, enabling localized decision-making and in-depth analysis tailored to specific coastal areas.
- • 8-Step Workflow
- • Risk Assessment
- • Solution Planning
- • Impact Analysis
Key Platform Features
Evidence-Based Decisions
Data-driven insights for coastal resilience planning
Multi-Scale Integration
From regional overviews to local detailed analysis
Comprehensive Solution Library
Access to proven resilience strategies and tools
Strategic Planning Tools
Step-by-step workflows for implementation
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European Commission - Horizon Europe Programme
Explore the diversity of Europe's coastal cultural landscapes and climate risks they face. The RescueME ATLAS helps you discover regional similarities and future climate threats in a visual and accessible way.
The RescueME ATLAS offers two main ways to explore European coastal cultural landscapes that allow to better understand their diversity and vulnerabilities:
Typologies – Discover how coastal regions in Europe are clustered based on shared patterns and similarities.
Risk Assessment – Explore how different climate hazards and non-climatic threats may affect these regions today and in the future.
The typologies in the ATLAS classify coastal small regions of Europe (NUTS3 regions)* based on shared characteristics of their socio-ecological-technical systems, with regards to their build, human, financial, natural and social capital. These typologies help identify regions with similar challenges and opportunities, making it easier to understand how different landscapes are shaped and what challenges they may face. It is important to mention that the clusters can only be interpreted relative to each other.
The risk assessment component shows risks related to seven climate hazards (pluvial floods, river floods, coastal floods, landslides, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves) and poor air quality. It offers a composite risk index for each coastal region, under current and future climate scenarios, enabling visualizing how risks are changing over time and across regions. NUTS3 regions can be compared for the reference year, while a risk evolution map can be visualized in each NUTS3 for reference year and future scenarios considered.
How to navigate
When you access the ATLAS, you'll see a layer panel with different groups. Click on one of the five capital types to view related landscape clusters, or select a risk type and time period/scenario to see the risk maps. Colors on the map show the cluster type or the level of risk in each region.
On the left, you'll find a panel with detailed descriptions of the data used in the analysis.
To get more information, click on any coastal region on the map. A panel will open on the right with a table of indicator values used to define the typologies. Hover over any value to see its unit. For risk assessments, the table shows risk component and subcomponent indices, as well as the overall composite risk index.
