New movie: "The Story of Data on the Environment"

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Created on Friday, 11 November 2011 08:44

A blueprint for ocean and coastal sustainability

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Created on Wednesday, 02 November 2011 16:19

The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability, prepared for consideration by the UN conference on sustainable development (Rio+20, June 2012),  was presented during the 36th session of the General Conference of UNESCO. The report contains a series of concrete measures to i.a. create a global blue carbon market as a means of creating direct economic gain through habitat protection; fill governance gaps in the high seas, by reinforcing the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea; support the development of green economies in small island developing states; etc.

The Blueprint was prepared by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). To download the entire report visit the page: http://www.unesco.org/new/en/rio20

Honourable citation of the PEGASO project on EU ICZM website!

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Created on Tuesday, 25 October 2011 07:15

The EU website on Integrated Coastal Zone Management is an important online information portal for anyone who is involved with or interested in the EU Coastal Zone Policy. The implementation process of the EU ICZM Recommendation (2002) is explained, the state of Europe's coastal zones is assessed and the ICZM Protocol to the Barcelona Convention is described. Moreover the PEGASO research project is honourably cited to support ICZM and the Protocol's implementation.

OURCOAST Conference on ICZM in Europe: 27 - 28 October 2011, Riga, Latvia

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Created on Friday, 21 October 2011 07:24

The OURCOAST stakeholders conference on ICZM in Europe will take place on Thursday 27th and Friday 28th October 2011, in the main building of the University of Latvia in Riga. This conference is organised under the auspices of the OURCOAST initiative commissioned by the Directorate- General (DG) Environment of the European Commission. The Conference will focus on the exchange of experiences and best practices in integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) in order to share and showcase the wealth of coastal-related activities and initiatives that addresses adaptation to risks, sustainable use of resources and economic growth. The OURCOAST Stakeholders Conference will be an occasion to reflect, at high level, on the further needs to support the implementation of ICZM in Europe.

For more information and registration (until 25th October 2011), click here.

New publication: Marine protected Areas of the North Adriatic Sea in an ICZM context

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Created on Monday, 17 October 2011 07:22

François Morisseau (Master student in the UAB/La Rochelle) has completed the following report: “North Adriatic Sea Marine Protected Areas, assessment of current situation, potential pressures and synergies in an ICZM context”. You can download the document here.

François has worked especially on characterizing Marine Protected Areas of the North Adriatic Sea in an ICZM context. His work enters in the fourth objective of Pegaso: to test and validate the assessment tools at regional and local scales to understand both global and cumulative local trends and how they interact in specific coastal and marine regions.

International Coast Day, 25 September 2011

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Created on Thursday, 15 September 2011 00:00

It has become tradition in the Mediterranean to celebrate the Coast Day on September 25. This year the central regional celebration will be organised at the “Sheraton” hotel in Algiers, under the high patronage of H.E. Mr. Chérif Rahmani, the Algerian Minister of Land-use Planning and Environment. The theme of the celebration will be “The Protocol has Entered into Force”.

Since a wide participation of Mediterranean experts involved in environmental issues is expected, this occasion will be used to organise a workshop on ICZM Indicators in the North African Countries (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia). It has been envisaged by the programme of the PEGASO project.

Coast Day celebrations will also be organised in several countries of the Mediterranean. All institutions and organisations working for the sustainability of our coasts are invited to join this initiative.

For more information, visit the Coast Day website.

Fourth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean coastal areas - Livorno, Italy, June 2012: call for papers

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Created on Thursday, 14 July 2011 06:19

This is a call for papers for the Fourth International Symposium "Monitoring of Mediterranean coastal areas: problems and measurement" that will be organized in Livorno (Italy) in June 2012.

Mediterranean Conservation Sciences Conference 2011, 8 – 10 december 2011, Tour du Valat, Camargue, France

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Created on Monday, 27 June 2011 12:49

Tour du Valat, Research centre for the conservation of Mediterranean wetlands, CEFE-CNRS (Montpellier) and IMEP (Aix-Marseille) are launching a series of conference every two years targeting young scientists concerning ‘Conservation Sciences in the Mediterranean Region’. The first conference will take place in December 8-10, 2011 Tour du Valat, Camargue, France. The main objective of this conference is to create a scientific dynamism around the Mediterranean basin about the stakes of conservation sciences.  Exchanging scientific knowledge and experiences should permit us to face the conservation challenges. You will find all the information about the conference on this website.

Marine and coastal conservation: dealing with impacting activities. 30 August - 1 September 2011, Le Conquet (near Brest), France

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Created on Wednesday, 22 June 2011 14:48

The 2^nd Eurosite Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Workshop will take place in le Conquet, Brittany – France from the 30^th of August to the 1^st of September 2011. The main aim of this workshop is to prepare site managers of marine and coastal areas to address novel issues, to anticipate what information, decisions and actions are necessary to protect and manage biodiversity and how to work at different scales: from local to European level. The meeting is open to pre-registered participants (members and non-members). The deadline for registration is 31 July 2011. For more information on the event, the draft programme and registration details, visit the Eurosite website or the Eurosite Marine and coastal Protected Areas Working Group dedicated website.

2nd general PEGASO meeting, 4-8 July 2011, Tulcea, Romania

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Created on Wednesday, 01 June 2011 13:07

The Danube Delta National Institute for Research and Development will host the second general PEGASO meeting in Tulcea (Romania) from 4-8 July 2011. This meeting will focus on project progress and next steps: ICZM in the Mediterranean and Black Sea region, Regional Assessment for the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, the Pegaso ICZM Platform at work, Coastal-Marine information system, SDI and geonode building, capacity building, … A fieldtrip to the Danube Delta (one the PEGASO project CASES) will offer opportunity to participants (scientists, end-users) to share their knowledge of issues affecting the Delta and coasts and to discuss strategies for addressing those issues. Download the agenda.