This document discusses integrated coastal area management. It notes increasing demands on coastal areas from agriculture, tourism and infrastructure development. This has led to issues like nitrate pollution, impacts on bathing waters and urban waste. It advocates an integrated approach to management using tools like indicators, decision support systems, and public participation. This will help regulate uses and activities sustainably. It provides examples from Spain of intensive agriculture impacting local areas. It also discusses challenges small island developing states face with coastal threats like climate change, and how the IOC can help with tools like ocean observing systems and integrated management approaches.

1. Integrated Coastal Area Management
Gestion Intégrée des Aires Côtières
Gestión Integrada de Áreas Costeras Alejandro Iglesias-Campos
7 May 2014 – Athens, GR
III UNESCO-GEF IW:LEARN
Groundwater integration Dialogue
“Managing Groundwater in Coastal Areas and SIDS”
IOC-UNESCO:
Integrated Coastal Area
Management and Transboundary
Groundwater Ecosystems

2. Total abstraction per year
2Source: European Environment Agency, 2012

3. Abstractions per sector (Mio m3/year)
Source: European Environment Agency, 2012 3

4. Source: Groundwater forum
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5. From traditional agriculture…

6. … to “global-industrial” agriculture
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7. Summer products 365 days/year!
(in all latitutes). Consumers’ consciousness?
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8. … but collateral effects at local scale!
Source: Environmental Information Network of Andalusia, Spain, 2014
Campo de Dalías, Almería, Spain
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9. Tourists’ consciousness

10. Tourists’ consciousness?

11. Exponential development of infrastructures

12. “Industrial (coastal) water”

13. In addition to other coastal risks…

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Land:
I.Drinking
Water
II.Groundwater
Land/Coastal
-Marine
I.Nitrate
II.Bathing
waters
III.Urban
Waste
IV.Floods
Overlapping EU Policy Framework

15. 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 sciences
v. Coupled with Training component
IOC/ICAM
Assisting Member States since 1997
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16. 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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17. 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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18. Our governance approach
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19. 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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20. 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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21. 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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22. •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, 2014
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SIDS: To be or not to be!

24. 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

27. 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

28. 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

30. Ευχαριστώ πολύ!
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Merci beaucoup!
Thank you!
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