Objective
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the benefits of co-ordinated action for the conservation of coastal zones by promoting the concerted management of the Strymonikos coastal zone. The project will result in better planning of strategies and programmes of environmental protection, development of co-operative instruments, identification of sustainable practices, social dialogue and better regulation enforcement.
The project begins with a description of the environmental, social, economic, and administrative features and problems faced by this coastal zone. A monitoring programme of key parameters of the zone's marine environment is then initiated. The next step is an evaluation of the zone, identification of causes of environmental problems, problem ranking, evaluation of trends of environmental changes, setting of ideal protection and management aims, selection of domains of intervention and preliminary management planing in these domains.
Once this first steps are completed, a dialogue among interested parties and the establishment of an informal Co-ordination Scheme (CS) are initiated to set operational protection and management aims, to decide on priority measures and to co-ordinate the start of their implementation. An Information Centre is then set up for the protection of the coastal zone of the Strymonikos Gulf, with several functions. It is to be the headquarters of the Co-ordination Scheme, an information centre and an instrument to alert authorities on emerging environmental threats. Other measures will be implemented on the basis of the results of the concertation task. Finally the project will end with the organisation of a national conference of the concerted sustainable management of coastal zones, along with various communications with other similar projects at EU level, media work, technical publication of the results of the project, in order to disseminate knowledge gained.
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