Acronym NA
Category
Aquaculture
Title SUSTAINABLE COASTS? Public and scientific perceptions of drivers aeffecting coastal zone management and ecosystem services Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Bjørn Petter Kaltenborn Coordinator email bjorn.kaltenborn@nina.no
Coordinator institution
NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2016 End year 2019 Funding (€) € 760,416 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/255783?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=60&TemaEmne.2=Terrestrisk%20arealbruk%20og%20arealendring Summary "This project takes a social science approach in a multidisciplinary perspective and asks: how do we identify, interpret and apply different perceptions of ecosystem change, underlying causes, and effects on ecosystem services in coastal areas in order to improve management models and land use planning. The novelty of the project lies in expanding traditional notions of ecosystems by building empirical knowledge about how different stakeholders evaluate and perceive forces of change.
The project will identify how a range of public segments and stakeholders involved in and/or affected by environmental change and land use planning, perceive a) major direct and indirect drivers of change, and b) effects on salient ecosystem services. The project will use the Lofoten islands and the Svalbard archipelago as study sites, since these locations constitute particularly dynamic coastal socio-ecological systems facing great policy and management challenges. The project has contributed significant knowledge about what various actor groups perceive as key processes of change concerning both the environment and society, and what causes these changes. The project has also identified conflict areas and how different business interests assess risks and environmental consequences differently. The results show, among other things, that coastal values and the perception of sustainability at the local level differ from what is advocated in parliamentary reports, coastal zone plans, and regional business initiatives. We believe that the knowledge from the project can be highly useful at the municipal, as well as county and regional levels in planning and business development. Some of the findings also have value in prioritizing future research needs and can be used as input for future R&D strategies, such as HAV21, which the Research Council developed a few years ago, when this work is to be revised."
Keywords
Economy;
Integrated management;
Spatial planning;
Marine Region
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Spitzbergen and Bear Island (27.IIb)
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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