WP4 Multi-scale tools, methods and models for integrated assessment
Objectives:
To exploit and refine existing scientific expertise and methods relating to indicators, environmental accounting, scenario construction, participatory approaches and valuation, to create a suite of tools and techniques that can be used to make a multi-scale assessment in the coastal zone in the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins.
To integrate the suite of tools into a common analytical framework that can form the technical and methodological basis of the assessment platform for ICZM that will be delivered by the project.
To develop training materials and opportunities related to the suite of assessment tools that can support the wider capacity development activities initiated by the project.
To qualify the choices and uses of tools/methods based on an integrated expertise in order to recommend the best practises responding to various applications (issues, scales).
Participants:
UAB, UPO, PLAN BLEU, IFREMER, ACRI EC, PAP RAC, IUCN, UNOTT, VLIZ, UNIV CA´ FOSCARI, JRC, HCMR, MEDCOAST, DDNI, UM5a, AREA ED, NIOF, UOB, MHI, TDV, NARSS, BSC PS
Description of work:
Task 4.1. Indicators to measure sustainable development of coast and sea
Task 4.2. Coastal land and marine ecosystem accounting
Task 4.4. Participatory methods
Task 4.5. Economic assessment and social valuation
Task 4.6. Integration work: towards an interactive toolbox
