Mare Nostrum Partners to Develop Toolkit for Improved ICZM Implementation

KAVALA, Greece, March 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

The EU-funded Mare Nostrum Project will hold a special partners' meeting in Greece to develop a new toolkit of alternative legal-institutional instruments to improve the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) principles.

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The partners' meeting, hosted by the Municipality of Kavala, will take place March 10-13, 2015.

The Mare Nostrum Project has identified major gaps in the implementation of the Barcelona Protocol on the ICZM treaty, which has been formally adopted by most of the Mediterranean Basin countries.

Mare Nostrum's newly developed toolkit is based on detailed analysis of local case studies conducted in several Mediterranean countries.

"By analyzing specific case studies on the local-municipal levels, Mare Nostrum will be able to propose a set of legal-regulatory and institutional tools which can help local or national governments to improve the implementation of ICZM goals," said Mare Nostrum project initiator and coordinator Prof. Rachelle Alterman of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

"Instead of looking for generalized 'best practice,' which may not be transferable to specific local contexts, Mare Nostrum's toolkit will propose a set of alternative instruments. The various government or citizen-group users may find it relevant to their own contexts to help address their specific problems in implementation of specific aspects of ICZM."

About Mare Nostrum 

Mare Nostrum's objective is to explore new ways of protecting and managing the Mediterranean coastline within the existing international Barcelona Convention and its protocol on ICZM. The project uniquely focuses on understanding the "implementation gap" between the ideals of the Barcelona Convention and realities on the ground. The outcomes of the project will include recommendations for legal and institutional tools which may be adopted to improve practices at the local level, taking a "bottom-up" approach.

Mare Nostrum is one of the 95 projects funded by the 2007-2013 ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme. The project is of three years' duration and has a total budget of €4,319,592, 90 percent of which is being financed by the programme.

For further information, visit http://www.marenostrumproject.eu.

Statement about the Programme  

The 2007-2013 ENPI CBC Mediterranean Sea Basin Programme is a multilateral cross-border cooperation initiative funded by the European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument (ENPI). The programme's objective is to promote the sustainable and harmonious cooperation process at the Mediterranean Basin level by dealing with common challenges and enhancing its endogenous potential. It finances cooperation projects as a contribution to the economic, social, environmental and cultural development of the Mediterranean region. The 14 countries participating in the programme are Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Malta, Palestine, Portugal, Spain, Syria (participation currently suspended) and Tunisia. The Joint Managing Authority (JMA) is the Autonomous Region of Sardinia (Italy). Official programme languages are Arabic, English and French (http://www.enpicbcmed.eu).

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