SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

Case study 1. Regional development

vs. Harbour functioning

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

Gdansk SSA is a complicated place with lots of different people doing lots of different things.

Who are these people and how are they linked to the physical and issue bits?

• Can people be grouped?

• Which are linked to issue?

• What rules apply?

• How are rules applied?

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

8 Government Departments, at least 13 other bodies. Need to include other stakeholders – NGOs and civil society – make the picture even more complicated.

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

The EU ICM Programme confirmed the hypothesis that most physical problems and conflicts in the coastal zone can be traced to procedural, planning, policy and institutional weaknesses. These can be traced to a lack of awareness about the strategic economic and social importance of sustainable management of the coastal zones.

The issue is procedural rather than technical.

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

• Previous meetings of the Gdansk SSA have identified many of the pieces.

• The workshop will take 2 key issues that have been identified:

• Regional development vs. Port development

• Tourism capacity

and explore if the SPICOSA DPSIR and CATWOE can help to organise information to discuss these issues.

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

One way to do this is a modification of the DPSIR method:DPSIR SPICOSA

Driver: An increase in salmon farming,

giving rise to.....

Human Activity: Fish farming is an HA and is an human intervention in the function and structure of natural systems.Results in a …….

Pressure: from increasing loading with nutrients,

resulting in a shift in the …..

Forcing: Nutrient loading implies an increase over a ‘normal’ level,which acts on ……

State: ecosystem (increasing nutrients, phytoplankton, primary production),

which may be diagnosed as an …..

System State: the situation at a specific time.to bring about a …..Response: a forced rate of change in the ecosystem.perhaps causing an …..

Impact: the ‘undesirable disturbance’ (e.g. harmful algal blooms),causing a …..

Impact: end-result in a cause-effect chain, with direct consequences for users,perhaps requiring a …..

Response: measures to mitigate the Driver and Pressure

Policy Change: scenarios that policy makers could use to make informed judgements on likely outcomes of management choices.

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

HA: What are the forces driving………?

F: What will the changes do to the environment………?

R: How will the environment respond – what will it change into………?

SS: What will be the outcome of these changes………?

I: What will be its impact on the HA……?

PC: What is the future scenario and how could this be mitigated……?

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

CATWOE – mnemonic of 6 characters needed to explore functional relationship between stakeholders for an issue.C = Customers stakeholders affected by a transformation but not its control.

A = Actors carry out transformations (policy & decision makers).

T = Transformations conversion of input to output to change a system (policy to alter behaviour).

W = Weltanschauungh worldview giving context/justification to T (future scenario of policy).

0 = Owners stakeholders with power ad influence to facilitate or block T.

E = Environment features outside of human system.

SPICOSA WP13 – pilot training course: Gdansk 7th – 8th October, 2008

Science and Policy Integration for COastal Systems Assessment

T – Transformational process: Increasing HA (tourism, leisure, recreation) in the Gdańsk region by improving the water quality in the Gulf of Gdańsk;C – Customers – Beneficiaries of ‘T’: Public, Tourists, Residents, Tourism business sector;A – Actors: Local authorities, Municipalities, Investors;W – Worldview: High water quality is an imperative for socio-economic development;O – Owners: Local authorities, Municipalities, Environmental protection & sanitary agencies, Sewage discharge sector;E – Environmental constraints: good water quality, aesthetic & landscape value, EU directives implementation.

For each of the identified Human Activities:

C: Who would be affected by the change in the HA and has no power over it?

T: What would be the outcome of the proposed HA development?

A: Who would make the decisions and implement the HA development?

W: What is the reason why the HA development is important?

O:Who has the ability to either stop or allow the HA development to happen?

E: What are the elements outside of the human activity system that are taken as givens? These will often include natural constraints which affect the types of activity within an activity system.