CADSEALAND – Land-sea interaction: coastal state and evolution in CADSES

3B005

CINFAI: Consorzio Interuniversitario Naz. per la Fisica
Via Viviano Venanzi 15
62032 Camerino (MC)
Italy

Dr. Janka Strakova
Tel.:	+39073761803
Fax:	+390737616804
Email:	janka.strakova@cinfai.it

4 - Environmental protection
4.3 - Integrated water management

(See here for a priorities and measures overview)

2nd Call

The complex ensemble of natural marine, terrestrial, atmospheric processes that determine the "state" of coastal areas is the result of a statistical balance which is subject to both natural and anthropogenic changes. It is of vital importance for the preservation and management of coastal areas to be able to detect these trends or their signs in the coastal state as well as to identify the nature and origin of the detected trends. Management interventions have to be addressed (including preservation and defence ones) in full respect of economic and social interests that are, almost invariably, linked in such circumstances. Given this complexity of coastal dynamics, trends in a statistical process have to be detected. The project was developed simultaneously along two lines: - A "horizontal" integration line along actions that is aimed at stimulating public institutions to define and develop guidelines for coastal management based on a land-sea integrated view of coastal areas; a particular effort is devoted to fulfilling the recommendations of the European Parliament and Council concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe (2002/413/EC), and - A "vertical" intervention line along actions is developed on specific coastal areas aimed from the start at maintaining a connection with concrete territorial problems. The objectives are essentially: guidelines for coast protection and management based on an integrated land-sea culture of coastal areas, an overall view of coastal areas in southern Europe and specific experiences in the Italian and Greek basins. The project development will greatly benefit from pairing up expertise and the institutional roles of the partners belonging to national and regional agencies, municipalities and universities in Italy, Greece and Romania.

The project targets the following results: - Developing international standards for the definition of a “state of the coast” useful for territorial planning, management, engineering, insurance, etc., which take into account the processes (both on land and at sea) that determine the coastal state, as well as the land-sea interactions (which are affected by both natural and human pressures) that determine the evolution (dynamics) of the coastal state, - To establish efficient monitoring systems for the state of the coast and its evolution, and efficient techniques for the protection of endangered coastal areas and the reconstruction of damaged ones, - Developing and diffusing an integrated culture of land-sea interaction in coastal areas for their preservation and management as well as for planning of the future development of the CADSES area, together with guidelines to be adopted by public institutions for the protection of the coast.

Total budget (EUR):	2.529.996,00 EUR
ERDF:	1.399.998,00 EUR

Start:	01/2004
End:	12/2006

• CINFAI: Consorzio Interuniversitario Naz. per la Fisica, Camerino (MC), Italy
• National Agency for Environment and Technical Services APAT, Rome, Italy
• Marche Region – Dep. for Territory end Environment – Service for Public Works and Environmental Impact Evaluation DTA-MR, Ancona, Italy
• Emilia Romagna - Regional Agency for Environmental Protection – Regional Meteorological Service ARPA-SMR, Bologna, Italy
• Geological, Seismic, and Soil Survey of the Emilia Romagna Region GSSS, Bologna, Italy
• National Technical University of Athens, Dept. of Civil Engineering - Division of Water Resources - Hydraulic and Maritime EngineeringNTUA-HM, Athens, Greece
• National Technical University of Athens, Lab. of Reclamation Works and Water Resources Management, School of Rural and Surveying Engineering NTUA-RS, Athens, Greece
• Rumanian National Institute of Hydrology RNIH, Bucharest, Romania
• Management Authority of Lake Pamvotis, Ioannina, Greece
• Municipal Enterprise for Water Supply and Sewage of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece
• Municipality of Evrostini, Derveni, Greece