People for Ecosystem basedGovernance Assessing Sustainable Development of Ocean and coast

Françoise Breton Project and Scientific Coordinator

FP7-ENV.2009.2.2.1.(February 2010-January 2014)

Main goal of PEGASO

• Support to ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean

• Supporting similar developments for the Black Sea

Support to 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

Objectives of PEGASO• Bridging science, stakeholders and

decision makers

• Establishing co-working process, building and sharing common knowledge

• Support Southern capacity for addressing by themselves the implementation of the Protocole

• Building on existing capacities to develop common novel approaches and practices for coastal, marine and maritime realms

Policy driven

• Consistent with the frameworks of the Barcelona and Bucharest Conventions

• Continuing ICZM efforts • Supporting new Marine Strategy Directive

Framework• Supporting maritime policy• Links with Directive habitat, CC and adaptation

etc, • In phase with H2020

PEGASO STRUCTURE

Partners

• 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, IOC-UNESCO• Univ and Instituts: JRC, UK, BE, FR, SP, IT,

GR, MA, AL, LE, EG, TR, RO, UKR

ICZM Governance Platform

• The core of the project is thedevelopment of an ICZM Governance Platform that :

• will enable the science and end user communities to share data and information, explicit their needs

• test sustainability tools developped in PEGASO in case studies,

• build a common understanding on priority issues and institutional perspectives affecting the coastal zones and the sea of the two regional seas.

The ICZM Governance platform includes all the PEGASO partners (scientists and decision makers), the Stakeholders of the CASES and the end-user

Committee.Establishment of the ICZM Med and BS Strategic Panel , to reinforce ICZM

platform future

ICZM Governance Platform

The ICZM Platform will be supported by the development and implementation of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) for the Mediterranean and Black Seas.

PEGASO will Construct/support a network of local geonodes coordinated together around a common interactive web portal

The SDI

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

Why a 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)

• Making of simple scenarios with participatory methods for decision making

• Developing basis for a Med and BS Atlas• Coastal and maritime spatial planning guidelines

A tool box for assessment

•DEDUCE Indicator fact sheet (as a tool) Area of build up land

www.deduce.org

Previous experiences

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

Site analysis:PEGASOCASES

Sites issues

North Adriatic Climate change, vulnerability, coastal & maritime planning

Bouches du Rhone (Marseille, Camargue)

Urban pressures on coast/sea ecosystems, tourism, coastal and maritime planning

Marroco coast Ecosystems, water and tourism

Nil Delta CC, Water, aquaculture and local development

North Lebanon Urban pressures on coast/sea ecosystems, tourism, aquaculture

Aegean Islands Tourism, ressource management and vulnerability, MPA and biodiversity, shipping logistics, coastal and maritime planning

Dalyan coast (Turkey) Habitat and specie conservation, biodiversity, tourism

Sebastopol Bay Urban pressure on coast/sea waters and ecosystems, coastal and maritime planning

Georgia coast Oil logistics, refinery vs nature protection, biodiversity loss, tourism, local development

Danube Delta Biodiversity loss, water pollution, CC, local development

Tools built in PEGASO validated by the ICZM Governance platform and

CASES

-Tourism is so important that it needs to be analysed together with ICZM:-Tourism in islands: mobility and accessibility

-Climate change, vulnerability and adaptation

Habitats and Biodiversity loss (AMP, Wetlands…)

Fisheries and aquaculture as ecosystem services

Harbors and navigation routes

1st challenge: Make the shared ICZM Governance Platform work

- Expressing needs and testing tools, - Co-working: identifying priorities, support data gathering,

revising outputs for assessment , etc- Discussing consensuated responses

Work on progress since Venise KO (12-14 April):

-Building Platform ToR with our 24 stakeholders

-Participative discussions (at KO, on the PEGASO web portal)

-Preparing the stocktake for ICZM Protocol (how countries are equipped for) with the platform

next meeting 24 September: Slovenia, Coast day, meeting of all NFPs of Protocole

1st CASE meeting in the Nile Delta, in October 2010 (working guidance)

Developping PEGASO WEB PORTAL

2d challenge:Extending assessment to the whole Mediterranean

and Black Sea: from CLC to GlobCorine

Identification of wetlands not declared at RamsarSources:

GlobCover2005 – courtesy European Space AgencyRamsar database – courtesy Wetlands International

•Agreement between ESA and EEA to produce a CORINElike product from –GlobCoverGlobCorine (Desembre 2009)

•Coastal mapping of coastal areas of both seaswill be done using GlobCorine

•Agreement EEA/ESA to make a mapping of South Med wetlands and LEAC with GlobWetland

3rd challenge: Produce a sea bottom maps and test LEAC at sea

–IBCM (above) & partner data: currently being harmonised–Sediment data for other basins from EMODNET

Work in progress

- Data inventory - Data gathering at bassin scale

- Planned meeting with JRC, EEA and ESA on available data for the Med and BS, ToR to be prepared

- ToR in preparation with ENVIROGRID, SPICOSA, MESH, etc to access and exchange data

- Preparation of the geonode implementation

4th challenge: Mapping coast-sea uses for maritime activities developping Planning

guidances

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

–Mapping shipping routes, the anchorage areas, the nature protection areas (Natura 2000, RAMSAR sites and World heritage), the gas and oil exploitations & connecting pipelines, the fishing areas and telecom cables.

–From PlanCoast project

– From SIGLA

–links river-coast-sea, identifying how uses impact ecosystems and sea scape

PEGASO Diffusion

PEGASO has been already presented at:

-EU Maritime Day 2009 in Rome (19-20 May 2009)(Joe Borg interested in having a follow up)

-PAP-RAC, INFO RAC and Blue Plan meeting (25-29 May 2009) in Zagreb

-MEDSTAT Course at UAB (24-26 June 2009), BCN with Marroco, Algeria, Tunez and Israel

-NFP meeting of MAP in Athens (6-9 July 2009) (Lybia, Albania, Algeria, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Israel have demonstrated interest)

-ICZM EU Expert Group meeting in Brussels, 7 september 2009

PEGASO flyer v.1

Towards a Mediterranean Cluster

• Links with Union Pour la Mediterranée (UpM

• Presentation of PEGASO to the EU Maritime Day, May 2010 in Gijon, Spain

• Links with H2020 and EEA

• UAB and the Spanish government are planning to fund a coastal, marine and maritime ICZM cluster in the Mediterranean and Black Sea with enlargement to Africa. PEGASO is the first step.

• Ensuring maintenance of PEGASO network, practices and products after the porject ends

GraciesMuchas gracias Moltes gràcies Eskerrik Asko Moitas gracias

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for additional information please contact:francoise.breton@uab.cat