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SUSTAIN The project

Dr Alan Pickaver & Ms Maria Fereira

Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)

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Background

Project co-financed by INTERREG IVC ProgrammeInnovation & Environment Regions of Europe Sharing Solutions

TOTAL BUDGET: €1.798 023

Jan.’10 – Dec . ’12

PARTNERSHIP: 12 Partners including 8 regional and/or local authorities, lead by EUCC

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To have in place, at the end of three years, a fully

implementable policy tool, applicable for all 22 coastal states of the EU, which will

enable the self-assessment of the sustainability of local

authorities.

Objective

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Conclusion Friendly-to-use, self-

assessment tool.

Participatory.

Highly sensitive, flexible and adaptive but robust.

After a baseline level is measured, further measurements show progress or otherwise.

Allows predictions to be made based upon different policy options.

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1. Governance has been dealt with through a checklist, not classical indicators.

2. The Issues and Indicators for Economics, Environmental Quality and Social Well-being have been divided into Core and Non-core issues.

3. An Indexing (scoring) methodology which gives SD Index (score).

What is new?

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Legacy of SUSTAIN

DeCyDe-for-Sustainability: A coherent, policy-driven management tool comprising:

A set of agreed indicators, implementable at local and regional partner authority level

A means of scoring these indicators in an objective way.

A means of giving a cumulative indexation of the sustainability effort.

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Integration land-sea

Project was entirely based on ICZM. As this policy initiative has been included in the MSP, it directly addresses very focussed aspects of the maritime area related to the coastal zone rather than the open sea.

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Implementing good ideas

Our partners self-taught from good examples of other partners and implemented them e.g.Bio-degradability signage for boat users,Urban Consortium of different administrations for coastal regeneration,Jelly fish monitoring

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Europe 2020 goals

Sustain was highly significant for MSP. The definitions of the Pillar Indicators are :

To promote and support a vigorous and sustainable economy;

To make available and promote sustainable environmental practices;

To promote social unity and durability;

To provide consistent management, cohesive policies….. for the wise use of the coast.

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Stronger maritime dimension

Learning from others (best practice)

Improved cross-border cooperation

Integration WFD and MSFD with MSP

Coastal areas MUST be included despite lack of ICZM Directive

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Maria Ferreira

Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)

Postbus 11232

2301 EE Leiden,

Netherlands

Tel. + 31 71 5122900

Fax. +31 71 5124069

www.sustain-eu.net

THANK YOU!THANK YOU!