| No 4, 25 February 2000 |
| Information & Meetings | |
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What's new on the website |
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Conferences & events |
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New Coastal Publications |
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Vacancy |
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Course |
| Organisations | |
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New Website Links |
| Environment | |
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The cyanide disaster: let it be the last one |
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UNEP's reaction to the Baia Mare spill |
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France wants to prevent oil spill disasters |
| Development & Trends | |
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Quality of Coastal Towns |
| Policy | |
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Better protection for UK coasts? |
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EU drift net ban confirmed |
| Funds | |
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EC's IST 2000 Programme out |
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Environmental RTD actions: EC extended deadline |
| Information & Meetings |
What's new on the website
New case studies in the Coastal Guide on Dune Management
The Dune Guide has been extended with eight case studies on natural dune processes and management in relation to sea defence, among them:
- The mobile dune of Råbjerg Mile, Denmark
- Coastal protection on the western coast of the island Sylt, German North Sea
- Biodiversity and dune protection in Merlimont, France
- Dune mobility in Slowinski National Park, Poland
| March 22nd | Dealing With Risk and Uncertainty in Coastal Environments, A one-day workshop, Cambridge, UK. Info: fax: +44 1223 355674, e-mail: geog-CCRU@lists.cam.ac.uk |
| May 26 - 28 | Clean up the Mediterranean Sea 2000 - join this international action organised by Legambiente, involving 19 Mediterranean countries, 100 organisations and 10,000 people to clean the Mediterranean Sea, including the sea floor, and monitor illegal dumping. Contact: Legambiente, Via B. Buozzi, 13, 58100 Grosseto, Italy. Tel: +39 564 22130, fax: +39 564 414948, e-mail: cleanupmed@festambiente.it, Website: http://www.festambiente.it/cleanup/ |
| July 16 - 21 | ICCE 2000 "Coasting Ahead", 27th International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Sydney, Australia. Info: Fax: + 61 (0) 2 92415282, e-mail: capcon@ozemail.com.au, Conference website |
| Sep 5 - 6 | EUCC-France Workshop: Dune and Coastal Wetland Management in the Merlimont Area, Pas-de-Calais, France. Info: Jean Favennec, fax: +33 5 56 98 41 07, e-mail: jean.Favennec@onf.fr |
| Sep 10 - 22 | IHDP workshop "Human Dimensions in the Coastal Zones, Bonn, Germany. Info: fax: +49 228 739054, e-mail: shaw.ihdp@uni-bonn.de, Conference website |
Please note:
The year 2000 overview of the Coastal Guide conference meeting list can
be found at http://www.coastalguide.org/meetings/
| Connecting Science and Management in the Coastal
Zone - Proceedings of the 7th EUCC International Conference
Coastlines '99 in Miedzyzdroje, Poland, 7-12 June 1999. Ed.
Kazimierz Rabski, EUCC-Poland (1999, 220 pp.) Bureau D&K/EUCC
Services, e-mail: admin@coastalguide.org.
Price: Euro 28.00 (members Euro 19.60), postage and VAT included.
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| Aeolian transport of nourishment sand in beach-dune
environments By Daphne van der Wal, (1999, 157 pp.) IDEEA,
Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130, 1018 VZ, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Fax
+31 20 5257431. ISBN 90 6787 053 6. |
| Handbook of Beach and Shoreface Morphodynamics
Ed. by Andrew D. Short (1999, 379 pp) Customer Services, John
Wiley & Sons Ltd, 1 Oldlands Way, Bognor Regis, West Sussex,
PO22 9SA, UK. Fax: +44 1243 820250, s-books@wiley.co.uk,
ISBN: 0 471 96570 7. Price £ 125.00 |
| Incentives for the conservation of the nesting
grounds of the sea turtle Caretta caretta in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos,
Greece (OECD study) By Stavroula Spyropoulou & Dimitrios
Dimopoulos (1999, 31 pp.) OECD Paris, France. Fax + 33 1 45248167.
http://www.oecd.org/env.
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| Conflict Management and Consensus Building
for Integrated Coastal Management in Latin America and the Caribbean
By Frank Rijsberman (editor), Environment Division
of the Sustainable Development Department of the Inter-American
Development Bank, A PDF version can be downloaded from http://www.iadb.org/sds/utility.cfm/205/ENGLISH/pub/1532
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| Birds of Azov-Black Sea Region on the Border
of the Millenium By Dr. Ivan Russev (editor), 2000, 160
pp, ISBN 966-549-391-4, published by the Ukranian Natural Heritage
Fund and the EUCC, Ivan Rusev, 26 apt, 30, Geroev Stalingrada Str,
65053 Odessa, Ukraine, tel/fax: +380-482-522805, e-mail: wildlife@paco.net.
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Short-term consultants
ARD, Inc. is looking for short-consultants for intermittent posting over the next four years. All positions require fluent French, and advanced degree (preferably a Ph.D.), at least 5 years of post-graduate professional field and previous experience in North Africa. Candidates who cannot demonstrate these qualifications are requested not to apply.
Areas of expertise required:
- Water pollution prevention
- Coastal zone management
- Water policy
- Legal drafting
- Strategic Planning
- Water demand management
- Water quality improvement
- U.S. river basin agency management
- Integrated water management project design
Please email full, chronological curriculum vitae to dhewitt@ardinc.com
by March 15, 2000. Thank you.
ARD, Inc.
159 Bank St., 3rd Floor
Burlington, VT 05401
Ph.: (802) 658-3890
Fax: (802) 658-4247
URL: http://www.ardinc.com
Diploma in Estuarine and Coastal Science and Management
A multidisciplinary course which covers the physics, chemistry and biology of coastal systems as well as the socio-economic, administrative, management and legislative frameworks and leads to MSc/postgraduate diploma. It involves taught sessions as well as a 4-month research project which can be carried out with external organisations. During the 10 years that this course has been in existence, its graduates have gone on to employment worldwide in environment protection agencies, fisheries bodies, consultancies, local municipalities, industry and research.
The course is offered by the Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies,
University of Hull, UK (see http://www.hull.ac.uk/iecs
or contact Dr. Mike Elliott M.Elliott@biosci.hull.ac.uk
).
| Organisations |
New Website Links
IHO International Hydrographic
Organization: intergovernmental consultative and technical organization,
established in 1921, to support the safety in navigation and the protection
of the marine environment
Marine
Ecology, department of Göteborg University: undergraduate education
in marine ecology (including education for masters degree) and postgraduate
education (lic.- and PhD-exams) aswell as research, development, information
and consulting activities
Caspian Environment
Programme CEP: environmentally sustainable development and management
of the Caspian environment, including living resources and water quality,
so as to obtain the utmost long-term benefits for the human populations
of the region, while protecting human health, ecological integrity and
the region's sustainability for future generations
The Ocean Project:
Ocean Conservation through Education, Awareness, and Networking
Seas At Risk: an independent non-governmental federation of national and international environmental organisations concerned with the protection and restoration of the marine environment (NL)
Check out the other Website
Links on the Coastal Guide
| Environment |
The cyanide disaster: let it be the last one
The European Centre for Nature Conservation (ECNC) calls for a European
Ecological Risk Assessment Programme to protect Europe's nature against
industrial disasters like the cyanide spill that happened in Rumania's
Baia Mare gold mine on 31 January 2000 and polluted the river Tisza and
consequently the Danube water system. ECNC urges governments and concerned
international organisations to identify nature sites of European importance
where similar types of industry related accidents could occur and to develop
a European action plan. The organisation also suggests that in the course
of the EU accession process, risk sites should be identified and the prevention
of ecological disasters prioritized. Another example of an
industrial accident is the one that has polluted Doñana National
Park for years to come.
For more information on the Doñana spill visit http://www.coastalguide.org/donana/index.html
ECNC can be contacted through Mr Mihaly Vegh, Head of Central and East
European Unit of ECNC, tel.: +36-52349476, e-mail: ecncdb@elender.hu
UNEP's reaction to the Baia Mare spill
UNEP published a press
release on the results of an emergency response team mission from 15 to
17 February. This team of the Balkan Task Force took samples along the
Danube River in Yugoslavia and came to the conclusion that the cyanide
level is still a cause of concern for certain fish species. UNEP will
send another team of international experts to Hungary and Romania to carry-out
a detailed scientific analysis of the environmental damage caused by the
spill. The European Environment Commissioner Margot Wallstroem announced
that a task force would be set-up
to ascertain the extent of the accident.
http://www.unep.org/unep/per/ipa/pressrel/r02-1500.001,
http://www.unep.org/unep/per/ipa/pressrel/r02-2000.002
Robert Bisset, BTF Press Officer, email: robert.bisset@unep.org
France wants to prevent oil spill disasters
As Reuters reported
on 14 February, French oil companies (among them TotalFina, Elf Aquitaine,
Royal Dutch/Shell France, Esso France XOMIN) signed a charter which seeks
to increase and improve checks of oil tankers to give early warning of
potential problems. It bans single-hull tankers from the year 2008 onwards,
allows vessels over 15 years old to be used only if they passed recent
rigorous checks and outlaws "flags of convenience". The French Transport
Minister Jean-Claude Gayssot pledged to prepare a European Council decision
for the time of the French presidency
along these lines of charter.
This is a reaction to the spill of 10 000 tons of heavy crude oil after
the 25 year old tanker Erika had broken in two on December 12 of last
year (see also CG News No 1 and 2). Whether in future the charter and
potential European measures will prevent all of the causes of this disaster
has to be
seen.
To summarize the cause of events:
An inspection of Erika in Rotterdam in 1997 had revealed several severe
deficiencies but the Italian State Maritime Agency gave the tanker another
certificate recently which however many companies such as Royal Dutch
Shell did not trust. RoyalFina did and chartered the tanker from its Italian
owner with an Indian crew and under Maltese flag of convenience. On 10
December the captain of Erica noticed structural problems and as storms
were predicted along the coasts of Brittany, he asked for permission at
a French harbor to anchor for maintenance work. The port authority refused
and the tanker broke apart off shore during the following storm. About
half of the cargo was spilled into the sea. Those 10 000 tons of heavy
crude oil are of such a viscous consistency that equipment and methods
usually applied to contain oil spill do not work. Consequently, about
500 km of coastline in southern Brittany was effected by the disaster,
at least 200,000 birds died. TotalFina agreed to cover the costs of clean-up
operations but will most likely be reimbursed by insurance companies and
compensation funds. The oil wastes which have been collected will be temporarily
stored until a final solution for treatment has been found (the oil of
the Amoco Cadiz is still filling on-shore storage facilities 20 years
after the accident happened!).
For more information visit http://www.oil-spill-web.com
http://www.cutter.com/osir/jan6sp.html,
http://www.itopf.com/index.html
| Development & Trends |
Quality of Coastal Towns
The EUCC and the Province of North Holland jointly developed a project
to enhance the sustainable development in coastal areas. This project
is now being executed together with eight partners in three countries
under the Interreg IIc regional development fund of the European Union
(EU).
Interreg was established in 1989 with the initial goal to enlarge the
integration of regions along internal and external borders of
EU member states. In 1996 a new range of activities were added in order
to support the trans-national co-operation with regard to regional planning.
This is the context of the project Quality of Coastal Towns. A number
of coastal councils have agreed to collaborate in the preparation of integrated
(multi-sectoral) spatial planning studies, strategies and action plans
for sustainable development and the enhancement of the multifunctional
qualities in their regions.
The planning areas of the Councils involved in this collaboration are
- without any exception - combining:
- one or more small and medium sized coastal resort or town and
- important natural coastal landscapes or habitats.
The project has three main aims:
- Prepare spatial planning strategies and action plans that contribute to the sustainable development of their coastal towns, to the enhancement of recreation & tourism quality and to the conservation of theirenvironmental, natural and cultural values
- Contribute to the preparation of an overall spatial planning strategy for small and medium sized coastal towns on the basis of the above studies and strategies and of the wider experience in NW-Europe
- Communicate and disseminate this overall strategy and more specific opportunities for sustainability, recreation & tourism quality enhancement and of coastal conservation to coastal councils.
"Coastal towns" should be understood as the entire planning area of the
participating municipalities, borough, district or island councils: the
combination of small and medium sized coastal towns and their surrounding
countryside and natural habitats, including relevant near shore zones.
An Internet-page with information on the project in under construction.
Meanwhile information about the Coastal Towns project is spread via this
newsletter. For information on the project, contact Pieterjan van der
Hulst, e-mail: vanderhulst@eucc.nl,
on Interreg IIc: http://www.nwmainterregiic.org
| Policy |
Better protection for UK coasts?
According to a BBC press release, the UK Department of the Environment,
Transport and the Regions announced that it is goimg to explore
ways of giving greater protection to vulnerable parts of the British
coast. To do this a consultative process is launched which could
result in the setting-up of marine environmental high risk areas
(MEHRAs). Herewith he UK government is following one of 103 recommendations
made in the report of the Donaldson inquiry into the loss of the
tanker Braer in 1993 off southern Shetland. Conservation groups welcomed
the announcement but stress that MEHRAs should not only look very good
on paper but that both implementation and enforcement should have high
priority.
BBC press release: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_639000/639263.stm.
Consultation paper of the Department of Environment, Transport and Regions
on the MEHRA concept: http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/consult/mehra/index.htm
On 22 February, the European Court of First Instance rejected a claim
from French and Irish tuna fishermen wanting to stop a European ban on
drift net fishing. For the whole text of the decision, please visit http://www.europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/index.html,
klick "case-law" and search
for the decisions of 2000-02-22.
| Funds |
EC's IST 2000 Programme out
As part of the Fifth Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration (RTD) activities of the European Commission (DG Research), a new Call for Proposals was launched under the IST Programme. It invites to submit project proposals on a user-friendly information society. The deadline for proposals depend on the various budget lines, the earliest being 10 May 2000. For more information visit http://www.cordis.lu/ist
Environmental RTD actions: EC extended deadline
The deadline for
the submission of proposals for the research area "support for research
infrastructure" of the European Commission's call for proposals of 18
November 1999 for indirect RTD actions on "Energy, environment and
sustainable development" (call identifier EESD-ENV-99-2) is
postponed to 28 September 2000. http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/calls/calls.htm
Deadline for submitting contributions to Coastal Guide News No 5:
Wednesday, 8 March 2000
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