Sustainable management of the North Sea: As a part of the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the development of a new marine strategy we want to develop pilot mangagement plans for land - coast - ocean in different regions around the NS. Sustainable management must be knowledge based. To develop management plans we therefore need to understand the consequenses of human activity on the ecosystem and be able to predict the ecosystem tipping points to assure that the level of activity is on the safe side. To be able to do this it i crusial to have a close link and a good communication between sciens and management. The pilots will be used to test and develop guidances and best practis for knowledge based planning.

The aim of the project is to enable sustainable economic development in the coastal zone around the North Sea and combined with environmentally responsible practices by developing proposals for holistic management plans, including components of - data availability to enable for planners and the public - enable public participation - habitat modelling and mapping of recourses - develop monitoring programs to assure knowledge based management - adjust and develop management models to combine different EU directives

- proposals for holistic management plans for the selected pilot areas around the NS.

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