Center for Coastal & Marine Studies
All roads lead to retreat: adapting to sea level rise using a trigger-based pathway
As coastal communities all over the world deal with the consequences of rising sea-level and more intense storm events, planners and managers continue to grapple with the optimal policy approach to managing increasing risks to coastal ecosystems, people and property.
The impact of rising sea levels and coastal erosion will see shorelines retreat steadily and provide major challenges for planning authorities, according to a research that involved The University of Western Australia, and was contracted to GHD consultancy firm.
MARSPLAN-BS II Advisory Board Meeting & Interdisciplinary Workshop “Blue Synergy”
9 - 10 July, 2020, Burgas, Bulgaria
On July 9th, 2020, the first Advisory Board Meeting of MARSPLAN – BS II Project (Cross-border Maritime Spatial Planning for Black Sea – Bulgaria and Romania), will take place in the Exhibition Center Flora, Burgas.
The meeting will be attended by all project partners, as well as leading experts on MSP from Italy and Poland, representatives of Turkey, Ukraine and Georgia, Black Sea Commission, BSEC, EEA and IOC-UNESCO. Some of participants will be connected via Webex platform, because of the measures against COVID - 19.
ICBSS - BSEC - DG MARE online Workshop, 16 June 2020
CCMS Director Dr Margarita Stancheva took participation at ICBSS - BSEC - DG MARE online Workshop on “How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected Blue Economy in the Black Sea region? Potential response actions” on Tuesday 16 June 2020. The Workshop was organized by the International Centre for Black Sea Studies (ICBSS), the Organization for the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) and the EU Commission's Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE), in cooperation with the Bulgarian Coordination of the Common Maritime Agenda.
OUR FIRST MARSPLAN-BS II SYNTHESIS REPORT ON MARITIME USES IS PUBLISHED ONLINE!
FIRST MARSPLAN-BS II SYNTHESIS REPORT ON MARITIME USES
This report provides the initial comprehensive support to the competent MSP authorities of Bulgaria and Romania in the preparation of the official planning. This first report was elaborated under Sub-activity 1.1.1 with the following main objectives: