SPICOSA

Science and Policy Integration

for COastal System Assesment

Denis Bailly
UMR-AMURE, Center for Law and Economics of the Sea
University of Brest (UBO)
France

Littoral 2010, London Science and Policy Integration for

September 21 - 23 COastal Systems Assessment
 SPICOSA
Science and Policy Integration for COastal System Assessment
An Integrated Project (IP) under the “global change and
ecosystems” priority of the 6th Research Framework
Programme, research area “sustainable use of land”, dedicated
to Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM).

21 countries, 54 research institutes,

universities, SMEs and NGOs,
18 study-sites, 300 persons,
budget of 14 M€, EU grant 10 M€)

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
SPICOSA aims at delivering tested
methodologies to support implementation of
environmental sustainability agenda along European coasts by:

- promoting the integration of knowledge about natural and

social processes in coastal systems

- from a policy perspective (problem oriented integrated

assessment, « what if » scenario to explore consequences of
policy options or changes in external forcings)

- with a participatory approach (co-expertise between science

and managers, support to stakeholders’ deliberation)

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
 The Systems Approach Framework (SAF)
Modelling based on system thinking.
Focus on interactions between processes rather than
processes themselves, explore feedback loops driving
systems’ dynamics
Start at high scale (low resolution) and then downscale to
the extend extra information significantly improves
understanding of the problem
Trust benefits of communicative rationality : more
communication improves understanding and efficiency of
collective choices

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
TCoastal systems are dynamic social and ecological systems
Science and Policy Integration for
COastal Systems Assessment
Integrated and participatory assessment in support to policy deliberation
Science and Policy Integration for
COastal Systems Assessment
 Main challenges for the System Approach Framework
Demonstrate and make easy to operate the dynamics of interactions
between natural and social processes
Provide integrated assesments of policy options that mobilize the best
of existing knowledge
Operate simultaneaously numerical simulation and qualitative/narrative
information
Produce outputs (indicators, interpretatives)
that stimulate debate among stakeholders
and with policy-makers, including the
potential to integrate their knowledge in our
representations

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
   18 Study Sites

The Project tests and improves the SAF at eighteen Study Site
Applications (SSAs) all over Europe representing the diversity of
coasts that differ in geomorphology, environmental conditions,
cultures, and human activities.

Each SSA is run by a multidisciplinary team involving natural

scientists, social scientists and modellers, working in interaction with
local policy-makers and stakeholders.

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
SPICOSA Study Site Applications
1. Gulf of Riga
2. Gulf of Gdansk
3. Oder Estuary
4. Himmerfjarden
5. Limfjorden
6. Sondeled
7. Clide Sea
8. Cork Harbour
9. Scheldt Delta
10. Pertuis-Charentais
11. Guadiana Estuary
12.Barcelona Coast
13. Thau Lagoon
14. Taranto Mar Piccolo
15. Venice Lagoon
16. Thermaikos Gulf
17. Izmit Bay
18. Varna Bay

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
Science and Policy Integration for
COastal Systems Assessment
11.50 – 12.10 SSA 15 Venice Lagoon, Italy
Simona Della Riva, CORILA, Italy

12.10 – 12.30 SSA 13 Thau Lagoon, France

Johanna Béganton, UMR-AMURE, IFREMER, France

12.30 – 12.50 SSA 17 Izmit Bay, Turkey

Leyla Tolun, TUBITAK, Turkey

12.50 – 13.10 SSA 16 Thermaikos Gulf, Greece

Zoi Konstantinou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
14.30 – 15.10 Littoral 2010 Poster presentations
15.10 – 15.35 SSA3 Oder Estuary, Germany
Jesko Hirschfeld, Institute for Ecological Economy Research,
Berlin, Germany
15.35 – 16.00 SSA7 Clyde Sea, Scotland
Break (Hall and map room)
16.15 – 16.40 SSA 10 Pertuis Charentais, France
Michel Lample, UMR-AMURE, Brest University, France
16.40 – 17.05 A critical view to science-policy integration, lessons learned
from the project experience
Loraine McFadden, MFHRC, Middlesex University, United
Kingdom
17.05 – 17.30 Discussion

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment
Science and Policy Integration for
COastal Systems Assessment
Lessons from SPICOSA

Developing and testing simultaneously

Implementing a large project : benefit of rapid wide impact, of rapid uptake with
science development

What you can expect

Scientific publication (special issue of Ecology and Society journal)

A web-based handbook describe SAF methodology

An introduction to the SAF (student textbook)

SSA portofolio with the results of experimenting the SAF

Training material (professional and academic)

Science and Policy Integration for

COastal Systems Assessment