SPICOSA Intro - Littoral 2010 (Education Centre)

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Science and Policy Integration forCOastal Systems Assessment

SPICOSA

Science and Policy Integration

for COastal System Assesment

Denis Bailly

UMR-AMURE, Center for Law and Economics of the Sea

University of Brest (UBO)

France

Littoral 2010, LondonSeptember 21 - 23


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SPICOSASPICOSA

Science and Policy Integration for COastal System Assessment

An Integrated Project (IP) under the global change andecosystems priority of the 6th Research Framework

Programme, research area sustainable use of land, dedicatedto Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).

21 countries, 54 research institutes,universities, SMEs and NGOs,18 study-sites, 300 persons,budget of 14 M, EU grant 10 M)


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SPICOSA aims at delivering testedmethodologies to support implementation ofenvironmental sustainability agenda along European coasts by:

- promoting the integration of knowledge about natural andsocial processes in coastal systems

- from a policy perspective (problem oriented integratedassessment, what if scenario to explore consequences of

policy options or changes in external forcings)

- with a participatory approach (co-expertise between scienceand managers, support to stakeholders deliberation)


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The Systems Approach Framework (SAF)

Modelling based on system thinking.

Focus on interactions between processes rather thanprocesses themselves, explore feedback loops driving

systems dynamics

Start at high scale (low resolution) and then downscale tothe extend extra information significantly improvesunderstanding of the problem

Trust benefits of communicative rationality : morecommunication improves understanding and efficiency ofcollective choices


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TCoastal systems are dynamic social and ecological systems


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Integrated and participatory assessment in support to policy deliberation


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Main challenges for the System Approach Framework

Demonstrate and make easy to operate the dynamics of interactionsbetween natural and social processes

Provide integrated assesments of policy options that mobilize the bestof existing knowledge

Operate simultaneaously numerical simulation and qualitative/narrativeinformation

Produce outputs (indicators, interpretatives)

that stimulate debate among stakeholdersand with policy-makers, including thepotential to integrate their knowledge in ourrepresentations


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18 Study Sites

The Project tests and improves the SAF at eighteen Study SiteApplications (SSAs) all over Europe representing the diversity ofcoasts that differ in geomorphology, environmental conditions,

cultures, and human activities.

Each SSA is run by a multidisciplinary team involving naturalscientists, social scientists and modellers, working in interaction withlocal policy-makers and stakeholders.


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SPICOSA Study Site Applications1. Gulf of Riga2. Gulf of Gdansk3. Oder Estuary4. Himmerfjarden5. Limfjorden6. Sondeled

7. Clide Sea8. Cork Harbour9. Scheldt Delta10. Pertuis-Charentais11. Guadiana Estuary12.Barcelona Coast13. Thau Lagoon

14. Taranto Mar Piccolo15. Venice Lagoon16. Thermaikos Gulf17. Izmit Bay

18. Varna Bay


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11.50 12.10 SSA 15 Venice Lagoon, Italy

Simona Della Riva, CORILA, Italy

12.10 12.30 SSA 13 Thau Lagoon, France

Johanna Bganton, UMR-AMURE, IFREMER, France

12.30 12.50 SSA 17 Izmit Bay, Turkey

Leyla Tolun, TUBITAK, Turkey

12.50 13.10 SSA 16 Thermaikos Gulf, Greece

Zoi Konstantinou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece


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14.30 15.10 Littoral 2010 Poster presentations15.10 15.35 SSA3 Oder Estuary, Germany

Jesko Hirschfeld, Institute for Ecological Economy Research,

Berlin, Germany

15.35 16.00 SSA7 Clyde Sea, Scotland

Break (Hall and map room)

16.15 16.40 SSA 10 Pertuis Charentais, France

Michel Lample, UMR-AMURE, Brest University, France

16.40 17.05 A critical view to science-policy integration, lessons learned

from the project experienceLoraine McFadden, MFHRC, Middlesex University, United

Kingdom

17.05 17.30 Discussion


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Lessons from SPICOSA

Developing and testing simultaneously

Implementing a large project : benefit of rapid wide impact, of rapid uptake with

science development

What you can expect

Scientific publication (special issue of Ecology and Society journal)

A web-based handbook describe SAF methodology

An introduction to the SAF (student textbook)

SSA portofolio with the results of experimenting the SAF

Training material (professional and academic)

Documents

SPICOSA Intro - Littoral 2010 (Education Centre)