Monday, 06 May 2013 09:26

This newsletter provides some information on events that took place in the last few months: the 3rd General Meeting, the Participatory workshop on a cross-cutting approach to coastal management, ... You will also find information on new articles from the PEGASO Wiki, a link to the indicator factsheets, the Spatial Data Infrastructure Brochure, etc.

Link: http://www.uicnmed.org/newsletter/2013/pegaso_informs4_en.htm

Monday, 08 April 2013 07:02

This April newsletter is the opportunity to announce the move of the MedPAN premises in Marseille, France. Already inaugurated with the local partners, the Secretariat will open its doors to all members and partners of the network during the 3rd International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC 3), actually hosted this year by the euro-Mediterranean metropolis.
You can now reach us at +33 4 91 58 09 62 or as always at +33 6 81 75 61 78

For the rest, you will find in the Newsletter a selection of latest news published on the MedPAN website, including this month, two interviews with Messrs Juan Pablo Pertierra and Fotios Papoulias of the European Commission, on the links between the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Habitat and Birds Directives in the Mediterranean. We also draw your attention on the launch of the IMPAC3 Call for Papers that needs to be answered by 10 May 2013.

Read the full newspaper in English or in French.

Thursday, 04 April 2013 09:50

The submission period of CIESM Congress papers will expire on the 15 April.

More information and the themes of the Congress can be found online at http://www.ciesm.org/marine/congresses/program.htm.

Download the congress poster.

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 13:05

Two wiki articles have been uploaded recently in the PEGASO Wiki. Please have a look at the following tools for Integrated Coastal Zone Management:

• Indicators
• Participatory methods

Tuesday, 19 March 2013 13:28

Abstracts from the PEGASO Community for the Global Congress on Integrated Coastal Management will be accepted until the 5th of April for a special PEGASO Session.

https://conference.medcoast.net/

 
Dear PEGASO Colleagues,

The Global Congress on ICM, which is the joint meeting of EMECS 10 and MEDCOAST 2013 (the eleventh event of the series), will convene in Marmaris, Turkey during 30 October - 03 November 2013. The abstract submission to the Global Congress expired about a month ago and we received 371 abstracts, excluding presentations to be made in Special Sessions. 

As many of you already know, MEDCOAST's bi-annual conference series, which has been run regularly since 1993, focuses on the issue of Integrated Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Therefore, it will be a golden opportunity for our PEGASO project to make a big presence in the conference and the PEGASO Special Session for showing what has been achieved to a global community of ICM scientists, professionals and end-users, just before the project concludes. It would be nice if we could get one presentation from each CASE, 1-4 presentation (s) from each WP and individual contributions from several partners.

Special issues of several leading coastal and marine journals containing peer-reviewed articles selected from the proceedings of the Global Congress are planned. It would be an excellent product of our project if one of these special issues contains exclusively selected PEGASO articles and called: Coastal Management in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

The deadline for abstract submission by the PEGASO community is extended until 5 April 2013. Please kindly send your abstract as ms word file to my email address with cc to the Congress Secretariat ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). It is important that you follow exactly the format for abstracts given in the congress web page (http://conference.medcoast.net).

Kind regards,
Erdal Özhan

Friday, 15 March 2013 07:33

Deadline for submission of proposals: 30/04/2013
More information is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/maritimeaffairs_fisheries/contracts_and_funding/calls_for_proposals/2012_25/index_en.htm

Friday, 15 March 2013 07:29

The European Commission  launched a proposal to improve the planning of maritime activities at sea and the management of coastal areas. The proposal – which takes the form of a draft directive – aims to establish a common European framework for maritime spatial planning and integrated coastal management in EU Member States, with a view to ensuring that the growth of maritime and coastal activities and the use of resources at sea and on coasts remain sustainable.

More information at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/newsroom/cf/mare/itemdetail.cfm?item_id=9877&subweb=347&lang=en http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/maritime_spatial_planning/index_en.htm

The text of the proposal can be found on

http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/policy/maritime_spatial_planning/documents/com_2013_133_en.pdf

Monday, 11 March 2013 12:32

English version
French version

Dans le cadre du projet collaboratif PEGASO financé par le 7ème Programme Cadre Recherche Développement de l’Union européenne et dédié à la gestion intégrée des zones côtières (GIZC) en Méditerranée et en mer Noire, le Plan Bleu, l’Ifremer, la Tour du Valat, l’Agence de l’eau Rhône Méditerranée Corse (en tant que membre du comité des utilisateurs du projet), en collaboration avec l’Université Mohammed V - Rabat Agdal, ont organisé un atelier participatif d’échanges d’expériences et de mise en débat des travaux réalisés dans les sites d’étude Bouches du Rhône (France) et Baie d’Al Hoceima (Maroc).

Cet atelier a eu lieu à la Villa Valmer à Marseille, le lundi 11 février 2013, et a bénéficié de la participation active, de l’expertise et des témoignages d’un panel diversifié d’acteurs locaux et de gestionnaires des littoraux des Bouches-du-Rhône.

Les principaux outils développés dans le cadre du projet PEGASO et leur application ont été présentés par les responsables des sites d’études : indicateurs, diagnostic territorial environnemental, comptabilité environnementale spatialisée, scénarios participatifs.

Les interactions avec les acteurs locaux ont permis de mieux connaître les outils de gestion qu’ils utilisent au quotidien, tout en soulevant des perspectives d’appropriation de la « boîte à outils intégrée » PEGASO pour de futures applications à l’échelle locale des « sites d’application collaborative » (CASES).

Cet atelier a enfin permis de mettre en exergue les avancées que représentent les études conduites dans les CASES, ainsi que les points d’amélioration à apporter dans les prochains mois. Cette démarche devrait aboutir, d’ici à la fin de l’année 2013, à l’organisation d’un second atelier participatif pour une restitution finale des résultats des études de cas.

Plus d'information :

• Projet PEGASO
• Activités du Plan Bleu sur les zones côtières

Wednesday, 20 February 2013 13:21

MedPAN launched on 13 February a new call for small projects, to support the actions of MPA managers in the Mediterranean. This call is slightly different this time as the projects will need to be conducted between March and September 2013. The deadline to submit projects is then set for 6 March 2013 and all the supporting information can be found here. This third appeal conducted with support from the French Fund for the Global Environment Facility of the Albert II of Monaco Foundation and the MAVA Foundation will complete the 15 projects being currently implemented.

We invite you through this newsletter to discover one of them, conducted by the Palm Islands Nature Reserve in Lebanon.

You will find in this newsletter a selection of the latest news published on the MedPAN website (which we invite you to explore further under the new section "Web Tip of the month"). Finally, you will notice that several articles this month revolve around the theme of artificial reefs, echoing the Euro-Mediterranean Conference that took place in February in Marseilles, France.

Read the full newsletter here.

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 13:27

Source: http://environmental.elsevier.com/latest-news/100/call-for-papers-marine-economics-and-policy-related-to-ecosystem-services/

Abstract submission deadline: May 15th, 2013

Paulo A.L.D. Nunes^a and John Gowdy^b

^a Marine Economics Research Program, CIESM – Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée (The Mediterranean Science Commission), Villa Girasole, 16 Boulevard de Suisse, 98000 Monte Carlo, Monaco

^b Economics Department, Russell Sage Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA

Marine resources are critical for the health of the world’s economies and the health of the planet. The Mediterranean Sea is the world's largest and deepest enclosed sea. Drawing upon its geographical location at the crossroads of three continents, the surrounding twenty three countries attract thirty percent of global international tourism arrivals – which makes coastal tourism and yachting hugely important. Maritime trade, cruise shipping, oil and gas, cruise and port cities, aquaculture and fisheries are other important economic activities. The Black Sea’s main economic activities are shortsea shipping, offshore oil and gas exploration and coastal tourism. Additional sectors are fishing and aquaculture, especially in Turkey and Bulgaria. The Caribbean Sea includes twenty-eight coastal states and territories, most of them Small Island Developing States (SIDS). It includes the Gulf of Mexico as well as waters of the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to these States and Territories. To the Caribbean economies, the role of marine biodiversity, and ocean health, in supporting local livelihoods is especially critical.

 Scope and Potential Topics

Socio-economic papers dealing with policy and management challenges related to marine ecosystem services in the Mediterranean Basin, Black Sea and Caribbean, including political economy, governance, institutional and public policy analyses, will be considered for inclusion in the special issue. Multidisciplinary and policy-oriented papers that target research from a range of disciplines, including economics and ecology, biology, geography, geomatics engineering, GIS, computer sciences, sociology, anthropology will be eligible for submission. More specifically, papers could address the following topics:

• Socio-economic impacts of marine invasive alien species, including jellyfish outbreaks
• Coastal eco-tourism, recreation and tourism activities, including cruise shipping
• Offshore renewable energy
• Socio-economic impact of ocean acidification
• Blue carbon and market based mechanism for payment of ecosystem services
• Economics and management of Marine Protected Areas, including large scale marine ecosystems
• Exploitation of marine living resources, including the role of artisanal fisheries in supporting local coastal livelihoods
• Success stories and failures in coastal conservation
• Remote sensing and operational oceanography: applications for coastal management
• The role of biodiversity in supporting local economies 

The tentative schedule for submission, review and publication is:

• Call for papers: January 15, 2013;
• Submission of a 300-400 word extended abstract (max one page) to Professor John Gowdy and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes (e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by May 15, 2013;
• The editorial team completes evaluation of extended abstracts and invites authors of accepted abstracts to develop full papers: November 31, 2013;
• Submission of full papers via Elsevier’s EES systems, in accordance with the Ecosystem Services’s specific guidelines for authors: January 31, 2014;
• First review begins February 1, 2014 with initial responses by April 15, 2014;
• Second review begins June 15, with second responses by August 31, 2014;
• Submission of the final drafts: October 31, 2014;
• Tentative publication date: end 2014 – early 2015

40th CIESM Congress –  Marseille, France, 28 October - 1 November 2013

All the authors are also encouraged to submit their extended abstracts to the Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée (CIESM) Congress, which takes place in 2013 Marseille - http://www.ciesm.org/marine/congresses. The Commission is proudly to host a new research programme on Marine Economics so as embed a socio-economical dimension around the marine science sectors of CIESM activity, with a view to contribute original insights for policy and decision makers.

Submission guidelines

All papers for the special issue will go through the journal’s normal refereeing process. After submission of the abstracts and provision of feedback from the SI editorial team, the selected authors will be invited to prepare and submit full papers for potential publication in the SI. Paper submissions should be between 5000 and 6000 words. All papers should be developed based upon the editorial guidelines provided in the instructions for authors, which can be accessed from the website: http://www.elsevier.com/authors/home#prepare-your-paper

Editorial Team – Contact Information

Dr Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Head of the Marine Economics Research Programme
Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée
Villa Girasole, 16 Boulevard de Suisse, 98000 Monte Carlo, Monaco

Professor John Gowdy
Economics Department, Russell Sage Laboratory, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, US.