Experience from EU and Mediterranean cooperation of

observatories and testing indicators

The Pegaso project

EEA/EIONET Workshop,Maritime and coastal information systems, 18-19 Nov, Trieste,Italy

Françoise Breton & Alejandro Iglesias

Content1. ETC-LUSI : key element to support ICZM

policies with indicator development – ICZM indicators– LEAC and spatial indicators

- ICZM and the link with marine/maritime

2.Connected project to support ETC-LUSI EEA work

3. Cooperation elements with relevant Mediterranean organization and observatories

INDEX

1.1 Development of ICZM indicators

1. ETC-LUSI

Key element supporting ICZM

ICZM and main policies• Support the ICZM Recommendation (EU expert Group and indicator

production)

• Support WFD (river catchments DB)

• Support the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (especially the ecosystem based concept and the spatial perspective of the seas)

• Support the Maritime Road Map (coast/sea uses and spatial planning),

• Adress main socio-environmental issues (especially marititime activities) in all EU coasts and seas (Cohesion policy)

• Support the climate change adaptation Green Book, the flooding Directive and H2020

• Support the new EU Comission restructuring of Directorates (DG ENV Marine unit with Coast and Maritime issue; support DG MARE work)

ICZM and main policies

Limit territo

rial waters (4-12 nm)

Limit Exclusive Economic Zone

Base line

Territorial waters

Juridictional waters

Continental waters

Deep sea

Directive/Marine StrategyMarine sub-regions

Chemical status

1Nautic Mile WFD

Water Framework DirectiveWatershed management, water bodies

Integration of EU policies Integration of EU policies in coastal zones :in coastal zones : River River catchments, marine and catchments, marine and coastal zonescoastal zones

ICZM Recommendation

Emergent marine policies -UE

• Defining Coastal units – Administrative (Coastal Nuts)– Geographical (coastline, elevation and bathymetry), physical (sandy, rocky, muddy), by

landscape

• Articulation of the coast with river catchments, and broader hinterland– Water quantity and quality (S) – River management impacts (ex. dams and beach erosion) (I) – River floods (I)– Land uses (D, P) – Lagoons and deltas, transitional waters (WFD) integrated management (fish nursery,

protection against CC ) (S, R) (link with ICZM)

• Articulation of the coast and river with the marine interface and the maritime activities– Coast and Sea bed morphology and biodiversity (ex.posidonia beds) (S)– Sea water quality (S, P)– Land use and sea use drivers D)– Sediment balance (river-coast-sea) (S)– Anadrom migratory Species (river-coast-sea)(S)– Seascapes and marine ecosystems and species (S)– Sea uses maps (3 dimensions) (D, P)– Maritime activities and their coastal-sea hinterland (D)– Coastal/maritime planning (R) within ICZM frame

ICZM frame and DPSIR

INDEX ICZM work at ETC-LUSI

• Work on ICZM since 1992.

• Since ETC creation in 2001, ICZM has been an activity phare: – Participation to the EU ICZM Expert Group (DG ENV) since 2002– Lead of the WG-ID of the ICZM Expert Group (since 2002); – Participation to high level meetings since today– Participation in DEDUCE interreg project to develop and produce the

EU first set of agreed indicators (2004-2007)towards a coastal observatory

– Support to the countries doing their ICZM strategy (2007-2008)

• 2008-2009: participation in EU ICZM Expert Group meetings to assess how to continue and the different options (linking ICZM, marine and maritime)

The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (1)

INDEX- First agreed list of 27 ICZM indicators

The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (2)

INDEX The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (3)

GOALS INDICATORS MEASUREMENT/DATA

•Example: Area of build up land

•Indicator fact sheet

•www.deduce.org

DEDUCE Products

INDEX Participation at the Tourism

Sustainibility Group TSG– to use ICZM indicator experience for measuring the

Sustainability of tourism

-Coastal tourism/cruisers maritime activity

– Following UNWTO criteria for sustainable tourism, most of them have same objectives than ICZM:

• Make optimal use of environmental resources• Respect the socio-cultural authenticity of host communities, conserve tangible and intangible heritage• Catalyzing benefits for communities• Maintaining high levels of satisfaction for the user and for the local populations solidarity and ethic principles of ICZMlocal sustainable development

At European scale, coastal communities have a slightly lower population with highereducation qualification.

Economic well-being of Coastal

communities by NUTS

INDEX

- 1.2 LEAC

- Building Spatial indicators for the dry coast and wetlands

- Initial inventory of available data linking coast and sea

- ICZM and the link with marine/maritime applying LEAC for the sea covers, sea uses, seascapes

Development of Land and biodiversity

accounts (EEA-ETC/LUSI)

LEAC: Urban sprawl in the province of Venice, 1990-2000, cells of 1 km x 1 km – wetlands in the background

Legend

Land uptake by urban

Value

0 - 2

2 - 5

5 - 100

Inland marshes

Peat bogs

Salt marshes

Salines

Intertidal flats

Water courses

Water bodies

Coastal lagoons

Estuaries

Wetlands

Despite possible threats from sea level rise and the permanent ecological problems of the lagoon due to agriculture eutrophicating surpluses, urban and infrastructures development has continued in the province of Venice.

Net change in coastal land cover 1990-2000

% of initial year

-4,0

-2,0

0,0

2,0

4,0

6,0

8,0

%

Artif icial areas

Arable land & permanent crops

Pastures & mosaics

Forested land

Semi-natural vegetation

Open spaces/ bare soils

Wetlands

Water bodies

LEAC: New spatial modeling techniques for mapping biodiversity potential

1.The Green Background Landscape index2. Naturilis (N2000+CDDA) index3. MEFF, Mesh size index

4. The Net Landscape Ecological Potential Index

INDEXDevelopping land accounts for the

coast and coastal wetlands

–Accounts for biodiversity in coastal wetlands (2007-2009)- Report due in 201

–Camargue–Doñana–Amvrakikos–Danube Delta

Mapping and accounting ecosystem services

The Camargue socio-ecosystems

Application of land-use indicators for MedWetland assessment

INDEX

erosion patterns

Initial DB inventory linking coast,

marine and maritime issues (1)

Report on available existing data sets (national, international DB) (2008-2009)

Data is available, but the time series are so old and not “significant” European wide, National and Regional Governments have much better information on erosion patters.

–Distribution of the artificial coastline

along the European coasts by NUTS3

– coastal segments. Analytical results  (language: English, version  3)

– Example: erosion patterns

INDEXInitial DB inventory linking coast,

marine and maritime issues (2)

Alien and invasive species (Only regional examples)

• Regional data available on specific invasive species, there is not spatial data available on general approaches for the complete coastal and transitional/marine waters.

MARATLASData identification

From EEA Data Services

INDEX

- Development of Spatial indicators for marine and maritime assessments developping LEAC for the sea

ICZM and the link with

marine/maritime

INDEX

2. The FP7 PEGASO project on Mediterranean and Black Sea

2.Connected project to support ETC-LUSI EEA work

• It is a unique legal instrument on ICZM in the entire international community and shall serve as a model for other regional seas.

Supporting the ICZM Protocol

• ICZM Protocol adresses Land and sea ecosystems, coastal and maritime planning including tourism, energy, etc., impacts of Climate change and adaptation, in a multi sectoral /holistic approach

AIMS of PEGASO• Built on the needs of stakeholders developing simple and efficient

tools (Indicators, mapping of conflicts, environment accounts, scenarios, coastal and maritime planning )

• Bridging science and decision making in a co-working process involving users from the beginning and, therefore, building a long term co-research capacity within the post normal science paradigm

• Will enable end user communities around the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins to work together to identify common threats and solutions in relation to the long-term sustainable development and environmental protection of coastal zones

• PEGASO build on existing capacities to develop common novel approaches to support integrated policies and practices for coastal, marine and maritime realms.

The PEGASO project(UAB is coordinator)

To construct an ICZM governance platform, consistent with the aims of article 14 of the ICZM protocol for the Mediterranean.

THE PLATFORM

The ICZM Governance Platform will enable the science and end user communities to share data and information and explicit their needs for tools, so as to build a common understanding on priority issues affecting the coastal zones of the two regional seas.

The platform is formed by the PEGASO partners, nine test fields (the CASES) with their stakeholders and the end-users Committee.

OBJECTIVES OF THE PLATFORM

To build a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

The ICZM Platform will be supported by the development and implementation of an SDI:

BUILDING A MED AND BS SDI

To organize local geonodes and standardize spatial data to support information sharing on an interactive visor, and to disseminate all results of the project.

The Spatial Data Infrastructure will share spatial data in an interactive way:

• To advance in the concept and implementation of an interactive atlas of the Mediterranean and Black Seaswork with ICAN and Envirogrid (FP7)

• Sharing capacity:– South-south/– north-North and – South-North

OBJECTIVES OF THE SDI

PEGASO will refine and further develop efficient and easy to use tools for making sustainability assessments in the coastal zone.

• Spatial Indicators (expressing statistics into space)• Accounting tools/LEAC development for the

Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts and sea (as far as possible)

• Maritime spatial planning guidelines• Making of simple scenarios with participatory

methods• Developing basis for a Med and BS Atlas

BUILDING TOOLS

Work on GlobCorine: to extend LEAC to the Mediterranean and Black Sea

Identification of wetlands not declared at RamsarSources:

GlobCover2005 – courtesy European Space AgencyRamsar database – courtesy Wetlands International

Challenge:Accounting for Biodiversity at the coasts and wetlands of the Mediterranean

and Black Sea

Building on what we have performed with CLC

Colaboration with the Med Wetland Observatory

New spatial indicators

Developing spatial indicator of habitat richnessModels based on image texture and primary productivity have been applied for explaining up to 70 % of the variability in species richness (of birds - St-Louis et al, 2006; of birds and butterflies - Seto et al, 2003; of vascular plants – Griffiths and Lee, 2000)

A test was performed for the region of Doñana national park, on the basis of vegetation index (NDVI) derived from Landsat TM images, following three steps:

Classification work for Sea Bed Mapping

With the Marine Directive, countries will have to build a sea bed data base.

-classification and harmonisation issues are of first importance, -common support and guidance to countries (following INSPIRE Directive).

populating ATLAS of coast and sea (ICAN network)

Mapping coast-sea uses for maritime activities

Shipping intensity in the Northern Adriatic in 2005(DAMAC project, Marche Regione, Italy 2007)

The shipping routes, the anchorage areas, the nature protection areas (Natura 2000, RAMSAR sites and World heritage), the gas and oil exploitations & connecting pipelines, the fi shing areas and telecom cables were mapped.

Mapping marine uses on the Romanian Black Sea

From PlanCoast project

From SIGLA

NIOFICZM ProtocolWater Directives

Aquaculture, habitat loss,coastal erosion, water quality

LocalNile Delta

DDNI, UNIGE-GRIDHabitat and Water

Framework Directives

Biodiversity decline, water quality

LocalDanube Delta

MHIHabitat and Water Framework Directives

Water quality, biodiversity decline

LocalSebastopol Bay

INSTMICZM ProtocolCoastal erosion, reduction of marine biological communities

LocalGulf of Gabès

IFREMER, TDVEU Maritime Policy

Intense urbanisation, port management, tourism, biodiversity loss.

Local and RegionalBouches du Rhône

UOBICZM ProtocolCoastal development and land use, decline of capture fishery, water quality

RegionalNorth Lebanon

UM-VICZM ProtocolHabitat loss, intense urbanisation, tourism pressure

NationalMoroccan coast

HCMR, MEDCOAST

EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Tourism pressure, better management of fishery and aquaculture, maritime mobility and accessibility.

Marine region -Sub-region (sensu EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive)

Aegean Islands

UNIVE, PAP/RAC

EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation

Marine region –Sub-region (sensu EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive)

North Adriatic

NIOFICZM ProtocolWater Directives

Aquaculture, habitat loss,coastal erosion, water quality

LocalNile Delta

DDNI, UNIGE-GRIDHabitat and Water

Framework Directives

Biodiversity decline, water quality

LocalDanube Delta

MHIHabitat and Water Framework Directives

Water quality, biodiversity decline

LocalSebastopol Bay

INSTMICZM ProtocolCoastal erosion, reduction of marine biological communities

LocalGulf of Gabès

IFREMER, TDVEU Maritime Policy

Intense urbanisation, port management, tourism, biodiversity loss.

Local and RegionalBouches du Rhône

UOBICZM ProtocolCoastal development and land use, decline of capture fishery, water quality

RegionalNorth Lebanon

UM-VICZM ProtocolHabitat loss, intense urbanisation, tourism pressure

NationalMoroccan coast

HCMR, MEDCOAST

EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Tourism pressure, better management of fishery and aquaculture, maritime mobility and accessibility.

Marine region -Sub-region (sensu EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive)

Aegean Islands

UNIVE, PAP/RAC

EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation

Marine region –Sub-region (sensu EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive)

North Adriatic

The tools will be tested and validated in 9 sites (CASES) and by the ICZM Platform, using a multi-scale approach for integrated regional assessment.

TESTING THE TOOLS

WORKING WITH GOVERNANCE

PLATFORM

At different scales, bringing national, regional with local

To support an integrated regional assessment for the Mediterranean and Black Sea coastal and maritime areas, agreed with the governance platform.

ASSESSMENT

• To identify the main common threats and priority responses

• To formulate policy response options at different spatial and temporal scales.

• To produce guidelines for sustainable planning and assessment.

To establish and strengthen mechanisms for networking and capacity development so as to promote knowledge transfer and the continued use of the project outputs.

CAPACITY BUILDING AND DISSEMINATION

• Interactive internet portal. • Training courses. • Dynamic regional networks. • Disseminate widely.• Promote the ICZM Mediterranean and Black Sea strategic Panel.

• The foundation and strength of PEGASO is that it is built upon the long-term work of a number of key national and international institutions dedicated to regional assessment of the Mediterranean andBlack Sea basins in recent decades

• 24 partners : MAP/PAP-RAC/Plan Bleu, IUCN, PSCBS, MEDCOAST, UNEP-GRID, JRC, Universities and Research Institutes from UK, BE, FR, ES, IT, GR, MA, AZ, TN, LB, EG, TR, RO, UA.

PARTNERS

Building a huge Mediterranean-Black Sea Connexion

3. Cooperation elements with relevant

Med and BS organizations and observatories

• SPICOSA• SESAME• ENVIROgrid• MESH• PlanCoast• GEF LME• Continuing

ENCORA coastal wiki

– ICAN– GEO-GEOSS– Observatory of Med

Wetlands– CEDARE– Mediterranean Action

Plan– Bucharest Convention– MEDCOAST– UICN (AMPs)– WWF– National observatories in

South countries

Towards a Mediterranean cluster:supported by Spain, Andalusia and Catalonia

– Links with Union for the Mediterranean (UpM)

– Presentation of Coastal and Marine ETCLUSI Work & PEGASO to the EU Maritime Day, May 2010 in Gijon, Spain

– Links with H2020 and EEA

- Bidding for an FP7 proposal for Africa

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