Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
The World Bank featured a Story Map: “Bulgaria: Toward Blue Economy Development”
The Story Map communicates the evidence from the diagnostic analysis and key policy messages of the full report, “Bulgaria: Toward Blue Economy Development” for the opportunities that each sector brings to the blue economy in order to better understand the development risks and chart a way forward that factors in future challenges. The GIS Story Map is an excellent tool to empower and involve all relevant stakeholders and provides a dynamic platform for increased transparency, accountability, and public engagement.
The CCMS Director, Dr. Margarita Stancheva has been involved in the diagnostic analysis of the Blue Economy in Bulgaria and has actively contributed to the GIS Story Map.
Follow the published Story Map on the World Bank website:
https://arcg.is/0Lqymv
CCMS presented MARSPLAN-BS II results at the 34th International Geographical Congress
The 34th International Geographical Congress was held 16-20 August 2021, convened by Istanbul University, Turkey. In view of the continuing disruption due to Covid19, this was a virtual Congress. More than 600 delegates from 75 countries were part of the event.
The First International Geographical Congress was held in Antwerp in 1871, and it passed a motion in favour of the use of the Greenwich Meridian as a global standard. And 150 years later, IGC remains the greatest periodic international event for the world geographic community; the various plenary presentations and parallel sessions were scheduled according to GMT.
The Commission on Coastal Systems (CCS) to the International Geographical Union (IGU) (http://igu-coast.org/) convened three parallel sessions at the Congress, chaired by Margarita Stancheva (CCS Secretary) and Colin Woodroffe (CCS Chair), and focused on the theme ‘sustaining coastal and marine environments in the Anthropocene’.
In the context of the MARSPLAN-BS II project, (funded by the EMFF via the European Commission` DG MARE and CINEA) as partner in the project, CCMS leads two important activities on addressing the Multi-Use (MU) Concept with MSP and integration of Land-Sea Interactions (LSI) in MSP. In her presentation, Dr. Margarita Stancheva (CCMS project coordinator) presented the results of elaborated MU case study in Bulgarian maritime space: exploring the potential for development of one MU combination: Tourism, Underwater Cultural Heritage (UCH) & Environmental Protection (municipalities of Shabla, Kavarna and Balchik) and the identified key drivers and barriers, as well as key recommendations to overcome these barriers.
Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis, the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releases its next report titled "Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis" on 9 August 2021. This report is the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report and is released following an approval session held remotely to consider the document from 26 July to 6 August.
Working Group I assesses the physical science basis of climate change. The REPORT provides the latest assessment of scientific knowledge about the warming of the planet and projections for future warming, and assess its impacts on the climate system.
The Parthenope University (Naples, Italy) is calling for a foreign student to carry out a PhD!
The theme of this PhD course is the study of a wide range of environmental phenomena, the potential risks associated with them and the methods for their mitigation. The topic is highly interdisciplinary and requires the convergence of tools and expertise from different scientific fields and disciplines. Starting from the climate, understood as a complex of phenomena at multiple scales that develop within atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, lithosphere, it will focus on the effects of the phenomena in terms of individual potential negative fallout on people and production capacity, as well as on the hazard assessment, on the vulnerability of the elements at risk, on possible integrated strategies for mitigation. Topics of basic and applied research in the fields of oceanography, meteorology, climatology, geology, will therefore be considered, as well as their interactions in cases of environmental pollution, hydro-geological risk and similar issues; they will be joined by disciplines more directly related to the assessment and mitigation of risk, such as maritime and hydraulic engineering, geotechnical and structural engineering and geomatics, together with issues related to the methods of experimental investigation, monitoring and control of the territory.
Deadline for the application submission: 27 August 2021.
For more information, please follow the link: https://www.uniparthenope.it/sites/default/files/documenti/affari_generali/dottoratoxxxvii/microsoft_word_-_fenomeni_e_rischi_ambientali_eng.pdf