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steps = 4 work packages
- First, the project identifies existing barriers to effective marine governance and policy, and defines which enablers can be used to overcome such barriers.
- Second, the project co-develops innovations and improvements in governance schemes.
- Third, the project puts potential innovative solutions into practice and tests their feasibility and viability through policy dialogues at the relevant territorial level.
- Four, the project identifies specific strategies and actions in order to translate niche experiences into common practices. The project also develops recommendations and instruments for capacity building so that new schemes of governance are sustainable beyond the duration of the project. Stakeholders from the territories investigated in the project as well as national, EU and international key actors are involved in all four groups of activities.
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dimensions of institutional change
In BlueGreenGovernance we synthesize the insights gained through review of the scientific and grey literature, with a focus on five key dimensions fundamental to achieve institutional change within coastal governance:
- Integrated schemes for land-sea management
- Scientific knowledge
- Stakeholder involvement
- Stategic foresights
- E-gov tools
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case studies
In BlueGreenGovernance we selected seven case studies:
- Communidad Valenciana
- North Adriatic
- Isle of Wight
- Westerschelde
- Oslofjord
- Canary Islands
- Reunion
We used three criteria in selecting the case studies. More information about these and the individual regions can be found on the case study page.
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types of environmental challenge
One of the criteria for selecting the case studies is a diversity in environmental challenges. The project focusses on the geographical areas where these challenges are to be expected more intense:
- Sea level rise
- Coastal erosion
- Storm surges
- Extreme rainfall
- Flooding
- Water quality
- Land subsidence
- Degraded ecosystems
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project partners
In BlueGreenGovernance 15 projectpartners participate:
- University of Valencia (Project Coordinator) | ES
- University of Portsmouth (Scientific Coordinator) | UK
- KU Leuven Public Governance Institute | BE
- University of Antwerp | BE
- Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change | IT
- University Paris-Saclay | FR
- Open University | NL
- University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | SE
- Radboud University | NL
- Urban Planning Institute of the Republic of Slovenia | SL
- University of Reunion Island | FR
- KOFY | FR
- Centro Mediterano sui Cambiamenti Climatici | IT
- Tartu Ulikool (UTARTU) | EST
- Norsk Institutt for Vannforskning (NIVA) | NO
