1. The Pegaso project
Experience from EU and Mediterranean cooperation of observatories and testing indicators
Françoise Breton & Alejandro Iglesias
EEA/EIONET Workshop,Maritime and coastal information systems, Nov, Trieste,Italy

2. - ICZM and the link with marine/maritime
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1. 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

3. 1.1 Development of ICZM indicators
ETC-LUSI Key element supporting ICZM
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1.1 Development of ICZM indicators

4. ICZM and main policies 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)

5. Water Framework Directive
Integration of EU policies in coastal zones : River catchments, marine and coastal zones
ICZM Recommendation
1Nautic Mile WFD
Water Framework Directive
Watershed management, water bodies
Emergent marine
policies -UE
Continental waters
Chemical
status
Limit territorial waters (4-12 nm)
Limit Exclusive Economic Zone
Base line
Territorial waters
Directive/
Marine Strategy
Marine sub-regions
Juridictional waters
Deep sea

6. ICZM frame and DPSIR 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

7. 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 ( )towards a coastal observatory
Support to the countries doing their ICZM strategy ( )
: participation in EU ICZM Expert Group meetings to assess how to continue and the different options (linking ICZM, marine and maritime)

8. The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (1)

9. The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (2)
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First agreed list of 27 ICZM indicators

10. The EU WG-ID ICZM indicators (3)
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GOALS INDICATORS MEASUREMENT/DATA

11. DEDUCE Products www.deduce.org Example: Area of build up land
Indicator fact sheet

12. 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 ICZMlocal sustainable development

13. Economic well-being of Coastal communities by NUTS
At European scale, coastal communities have a slightly lower population with higher
education qualification.

14. Development of Land and biodiversity accounts (EEA-ETC/LUSI)
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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

15. LEAC: Urban sprawl in the province of Venice, , cells of 1 km x 1 km – wetlands in the background
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.

16. 1.The Green Background Landscape index
LEAC: New spatial modeling techniques for mapping biodiversity potential
1.The Green Background Landscape index
2. Naturilis (N2000+CDDA) index
3. MEFF, Mesh size index
4. The Net Landscape Ecological Potential Index

17. INDEX Developping land accounts for the coast and coastal wetlands
Accounts for biodiversity in coastal wetlands ( )- Report due in 201
Camargue
Doñana
Amvrakikos
Danube Delta
 Mapping and accounting ecosystem services
The Camargue socio-ecosystems

18. Application of land-use indicators for MedWetland assessment

19. Initial DB inventory linking coast, marine and maritime issues (1)
erosion patterns
Initial DB inventory linking coast, marine and maritime issues (1)
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Report on available existing data sets (national, international DB) ( )
Example: erosion patterns
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)

20. Initial DB inventory linking coast, marine and maritime issues (2)
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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.
MARATLAS
Data identification
From EEA Data Services

21. ICZM and the link with marine/maritime
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Development of Spatial indicators for marine and maritime assessments developping LEAC for the sea

22. 2. The FP7 PEGASO project on Mediterranean and Black Sea
2.Connected project to support ETC-LUSI EEA work
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2. The FP7 PEGASO project on Mediterranean and Black Sea

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

24. 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.

25. The PEGASO project (UAB is coordinator)

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

27. OBJECTIVES OF 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.

28. BUILDING A MED AND BS SDI
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:
To organize local geonodes and standardize spatial data to support information sharing on an interactive visor, and to disseminate all results of the project.

29. OBJECTIVES OF 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 Seaswork with ICAN and Envirogrid (FP7)
Sharing capacity:
South-south/
north-North and
South-North

30. BUILDING TOOLS
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

31. Work on GlobCorine: to extend LEAC to the Mediterranean and Black Sea
Identification of wetlands not declared at Ramsar
SISCAL.net
Sources:
GlobCover2005 – courtesy European Space Agency
Ramsar database – courtesy Wetlands International

32. 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

33. Developing spatial indicator of habitat richness
Models 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:
Automatic extration of landscape features/heterogeneity using ENVI Zoom software (which detects local homogeneity)
Automatic calculation of a number of shape, texture and spectral attributes for each feature
Classifying the landscape features into 8 categories according to the increase of average NDVI value

34. 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)

35. Mapping coast-sea uses for maritime activities
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.
Shipping intensity in the Northern Adriatic in 2005
(DAMAC project, Marche Regione, Italy 2007)
Mapping marine uses on the Romanian Black Sea
From SIGLA
From PlanCoast project

36. TESTING THE TOOLS
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.

37. WORKING WITH GOVERNANCE PLATFORM
Building & Testing of Nile Delta ICZM Governance Platform
Stocktaking & Assessment of end-users, target groups, stakeholders & their needs
Multilevel Stocktaking & Analysis of knowledge and frameworks of ICZM in Egypt
Identification of Resources, Environment & Processes
Identification of Issues, Conflicts & Threats
Building of Nile Delta ICZM Governance Platform
Testing of Nile Delta ICZM Governance Platform
At different scales, bringing national, regional with local

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

39. CAPACITY BUILDING AND DISSEMINATION
To establish and strengthen mechanisms for networking and capacity development so as to promote knowledge transfer and the continued use of the project outputs.
Interactive internet portal.
Training courses.
Dynamic regional networks.
Disseminate widely.
Promote the ICZM Mediterranean and Black Sea strategic Panel.

40. 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 and
Black 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.

41. Building a huge Mediterranean-Black Sea Connexion
3. Cooperation elements with relevant Med and BS organizations and observatories
Building a huge Mediterranean-Black Sea Connexion
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

42. Links with Union for the Mediterranean (UpM)
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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