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THE CHALLENGE Many efforts have been deployed for developing Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Both basins have, and continue to suffer severe environmental degradation. In many areas this has led to unsustainable trends which have impacted on economic activities and human well being. An important progress has been made with the launch of the ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean Sea in January 2008.

PROJECT OBJECTIVES The main objective of PEGASO is to build on existing capacities and develop common novel approaches to support integrated policies for the coastal, marine and maritime realms of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Basins in ways that are consistent with and relevant to the implementation of the ICZM Protocol for the Mediterranean. PEGASO is consistent with the frameworks of the Barcelona and Bucharest Conventions which seek to achieve a coordinated approach to sustainable resource management and development, and to protect these regional seas and the quality of life of their peoples. It also continues ICZM efforts, supporting new marine and maritime policies.

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Il Centro Euro-Mediterraneo per i Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) è una struttura di ricerca scientifica che si prefigge di approfondire le conoscenze nel campo della variabilità climatica, le sue cause e le sue conseguenze, attraverso lo sviluppo di simulazioni numeriche con modelli globali del Sistema Terra e con modelli regionali.
Il CMCC sviluppa e verifica modelli numerici documentati per le simulazioni climatiche. In particolare:
* un modello globale di simulazione del Sistema Terra, che includa l’atmosfera, l’oceano, i ghiacci marini, la biosfera terrestre e gli ecosistemi marini, accoppiato ad un modello ad alta risoluzione del Mar Mediterraneo
* Simulazioni climatiche di lungo periodo
* Ensembles di qualità controllata
* Suite di modelli di simulazione dell’impatto socioeconomico dei cambiamenti climatici
Il CMCC usa direttamente queste simulazioni per effettuare studi dell’impatto dei cambiamenti climatici sull’economia, sull’agricoltura, sugli ecosistemi marini e terrestri, sulle zone costiere, sulla salute.

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Il principale obiettivo di SPICOSA è lo sviluppo di un approccio di ricerca e di strumenti di supporto per la valutazione delle decisioni politiche per una gestione sostenibile Sistema Costiero (ICZM-Integrated Coastal Zone Management) attraverso una considerazione bilanciata degli aspetti ecologici, sociali ed economici. Acquisendo questo obiettivo SPICOSA propone una ristrutturazione della ricerca scientifica e delle metodologie per comprendere e quantificare le risposte degli ecosistemi costieri, soggetti a cambiamenti ambientali ed antropogenici sia locali che globali, considerando anche le ripercussioni sui servizi sociali ed economici. Questo richiede anche un’integrazione su scala normativa, geografica, politica e sociale.

Spicosa´s overall aim is to develop a self-evolving, holistic research approach and support tools for the assessment of policy options for sustainable management through a balanced consideration of the ecological, social and economic aspects of Coastal Zone Systems (Integrated Coastal Zone Management). Achieving this objective will require a restructuring of the science and methodology needed to understand and to quantify the response of the coastal ecosystems, together with their consequences to their social and economic services, when these ecosystems are subjected to changing environmental and anthropogenic conditions from local to global. It will also demand integration through disciplinary and through geographic, political, and social scales.

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  ECASA - FP6 EU project: Ecosystem Approach for Sustainable Aquaculture 

The main objective of the three year long project “ECASA”, funded by the European Union, is the identification of a set of biological and chemical parameters, to be used as environmental impact indicators of finfish and shellfish mariculture. These parameters were measured in several study sites across Europe using strictly standardized protocols, in order to assure the inter-comparison of the results and to allow the calibration and validation of a set of mathematical models, which can then be used for site selection, EIA studies and farm management.

Sezione DOWNLOAD del software per l'acquacultura (ECASA-WP4).

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