Acronym Froan Scenarios
Category
Fisheries
Title Building scenarios as a tool for dialogue, business development and management in protected coastal areas Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator Katrina Rønningen Coordinator email Katrina.Ronningen@ruralis.no
Coordinator institution
RURALIS - Ruralis; Department of Rural and Regional Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
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Start year 2007 End year 2009 Funding (€) € 595,129 Website https://www.fhf.no/prosjekter/prosjektbasen/900146/ Summary The reason for this project was that Frøya municipality and the county governor's environmental protection department in Sør-Trøndelag together contacted the Norwegian Center for Rural Research in December 2005. The actors in the management of Froan tried to get an agreed management plan for the controversial Froan protected area after previous attempts were stranded.
Use of scenarios as a tool for dialogue, business development and management in protected coastal areas (Froan Scenarios) (2007–2009) is a 3-year KMB (competence project with user participation) project with main funding from the Research Council of Norway (AREAL program), and co-financing from Frøya municipality's business fund, Frøya Nye Næringsforening, Fiskarlaget Midt-Norge (with financing from FHF) and Trøndelag Fiskeoppdretterlag (with financing from FHF). After the project was fully funded, the Research Council of Norway wanted the project to strengthen the business dimension. This was done by strengthening the marine ecological part of the project to also include the marine ecological consequences of farming in Froan. The fish farming company in Froan, SalMar ASA, came in and helped to expand this part of the project with financing.
Froan-Scenarier is an interdisciplinary project where social scientists (social geographers and a social anthropologist), marine biologists, oceanographers and landscape ecologists, together have contributed to the project's issues. Three research environments have collaborated with the project: the Norwegian Center for Rural Research (project leader), the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the Norwegian Institute for Forests and Landscapes. There has been international collaboration with the Swiss federal research institute WSL (Wald, Schnee und Landschaft) with the development of scenarios, and with the University of Gothenburg exchange of experience regarding the completed ZUCOSOMA project on coastal management. In addition, there has been network collaboration with the project PROBUS (Protected Areas as Resources for Coastal and Rural Business Development) at Nordland Research.
Goal:
Exploring the potential of scenarios as conflict resolution tools in controversial development processes in the coastal zone, by looking at the extent to which scenarios can help facilitate an arena for dialogue and conflict resolution between stakeholders in disputed coastal areas.
Sub-goals
1) To explore social aspects and (lack of) interaction between conservation purposes and business development in the coastal zone.
2) To develop scenarios for the study area (Froan) and analyze together with the stakeholders consequences of the possible development images the scenarios provide for the ecology both above and below water, for society and the business actors in the study area.
3) To develop terrestrial and marine modeling as an approach to evaluate ecological and landscape sustainability.
4) To identify possible barriers to socio-economically and socio-culturally sustainable business development within the protected area and in connection with the protected area.
5) To develop recommendations on the use of scenarios to resolve use / protection conflicts in the coastal zone.
Keywords
Economy;
MPA;
Sustainability;
Marine Region
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Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
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Barents Sea (27.I)
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Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
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Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
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