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Dr Athena Mourmouris
Member of the Project Core Team
Honorary Director General for the Environment, Greece
E-mail: athenamour
yahoo.co.uk (athenamour[at]yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk)
UNEP/MAP – PAP/RAC
MSP-MEd aims to facilitate the implementation of the ICZM Protocol in the Mediterranean Sea. The Protocol includes several explicit references to marine spatial planning providing the legal basis for planning and management in the Mediterranean. Project activities evaluated related methodologies and existing tools, proposed possible cooperation and management schemes and identified possible ways to deal with key challenges, in an effort to assist the Contracting Party to the Barcelona Convention to meet the common objectives of MSP and ICZM. MSP-MED represents also an opportunity to: (1) network with UNEP-MAP Coastal Area Management Programmes (CAMPs); (2) combine planning at the national level with consultations and implementation needed at the regional level; (3) incorporate the principles of ecosystems-based approach (EcAp) and good environmental status (GES) in the marine spatial planning (MSP). The Region of the Ionian Islands was selected as a case study combining a number of challenging characteristics.
Project partners
The project was commissioned by PAP/RAC to the University of Thessaly, in collaboration with external experts.
Other subjects cooperated with the project, by providing information, participating in stakeholders meetings, facilitating local meetings and field visits, and expressing views as end-users:
- Greek Ministry for the Environment and Energy;
- Region of Ionian Islands;
- Regional Union of Local Administration in the Ionian Islands;
- Hellenic Centre of Marine Research (HCMR);
- National Marine Park of Zakynthos.