Integrated Coastal Area ManagementGestion Intégrée des Aires CôtièresGestión Integrada de Áreas Costeras Alejandro Iglesias-Campos

7 May 2014 – Athens, GR

III UNESCO-GEF IW:LEARNGroundwater integration Dialogue

“Managing Groundwater in Coastal Areas and SIDS”

IOC-UNESCO:Integrated Coastal Area

Management and Transboundary Groundwater Ecosystems

Total abstraction per year

2Source: European Environment Agency, 2012

Abstractions per sector (Mio m3/year)

Source: European Environment Agency, 2012 3

Source: Groundwater forum 44

From traditional agriculture…

… to “global-industrial” agriculture

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Summer products 365 days/year! (in all latitutes). Consumers’ consciousness?

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… but collateral effects at local scale!

Source: Environmental Information Network of Andalusia, Spain, 2014

Campo de Dalías, Almería, Spain8

Tourists’ consciousness

Tourists’ consciousness?

Exponential development of infrastructures

“Industrial (coastal) water”

In addition to other coastal risks…

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Land: I.Drinking WaterII.Groundwater

Land/Coastal-MarineI.NitrateII.Bathing watersIII.Urban WasteIV.Floods

Overlapping EU Policy Framework

i. Developing and codifying the ICAM process, particularly from a scientific perspective,

ii. Defining scientific requirements/inputs in various phases of the coastal management cycle.

iii. Development of a set of tools and guidelines for addressing specific ICAM issues

iv.Bridging natural and socio economic sciencesv. Coupled with Training component

IOC/ICAMAssisting Member States since 1997

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i. Environmental information

ii. Indicators

iii. Decision support tools

iv. Capacity development, consciousness and public participation.

v. Dissemination of good practices and lessons learnt.

Pillars of ICAM

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i. Increase collective capacity to respond to change and challenges in coastal and marine environments through further development of science based management tools such as Integrated Coastal Area Management, Marine Spatial Planning, and Large Marine Ecosystem Approach;

ii. Build on IOC’s and UNESCO’s other coastal programmes in developing Member States’ capacity for the application of ecosystem-based management tools; and

iii. Promote the integration of climate change adaptation and coastal hazards preparedness into the application of area-based management approaches.

IOC-ICAM: Objectives

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Our governance approach

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ICAM help!

Building a strong system of alliances for a new institutional policy (at local, regional, national and/or transboundary level)

Having appropriate tools to know the status and improve the integrated coastal management model by considering the specific risks of coastal groundwater.

Achieving the necessary resources to implement a credible integrated management plan.

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Goals

We need to regulate the uses and activities for the coastal areas from an approach of sustainability and participation…

…in order to enforce the environmental quality, the monitoring processes and the evaluation.

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How to do it?

• Increase coordination between different administrations on the coast and implement collaborative Decision Support Systems.

• Incorporate participatory processes in coastal management in order to open the debate on problems and finding solutions to all civil society.

• Increase public awareness on issues affecting communication campaigns, creation and maintenance of communication platforms (web, forums, etc.). For citizens, stakeholders and politicians!!

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•Inventory of Aquifers•Inventory of Springs & wells•Levels in wells network

Detailed information on:•Permeability•Vulnerability•Vulnerable areas to nitrate pollution from agricultural sources

•Status and quality monitoring information network

No data, no knowledge, no action…

Source: Environmental Information Network of Andalusia, Spain, 201422

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SIDS: To be or not to be!

SMALL

374 km2 1.865 km2

SIDS: To be or not to be!

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DEVELOPING?? (GDP per capita)

14.400 USD 25.800 USD

SIDS: To be or not to be!

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SIDS: To be or not to be!

STATUS & Location

Canadá Venezuela

SIDS and coastal water threats

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SIDS’ needs IOC contribution

Degradation of coastal marine environment

How to manage extreme events and climate variabililty

Sustain and improve the Global Ocean Observing System to ensure nations have access to data and information for adaptation and local DSS.

Need to address transboundary issues Promote the use of transboundary marine assessments (TWAP)

Coastal water management Promote the use of integrated management tools such MSP and ICAM

SIDS and coastal water threats

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Main questions IOC answers

Reduce the rate of biodiversity loss and increase coastal/marine protected areas

Identify most vulnerable species and habitats in need of protection through the collection of marine biodiversity data (OBIS)

Baseline coastal/marine research and mapping

Support the development of coastal/ marine information systems and atlases.

Data management Support the development of national oceanographic data centers

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A “water” future is (still) possible

Ευχαριστώ πολύ!¡Muchas gracias!Merci beaucoup!Thank you!ا �ًر� ْك ُش�Спасибо谢谢

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