Symposium proposals for SENALMAR-COLACMAR 2015.
Proposal title:
Indicators for supporting decision-makers on integrated coastal zone management.
Symposium Organizers (name, institution, contact information):
Alejandro Iglesias Campos
UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
a.iglesias-campos@unesco.org
Fernando Félix Grijalva
Permanent Commission for the South Pacific (CPPS)
ffelix@cpps-int.org
Paula Cristina Sierra Correa
Invemar
Paula.sierra@invemar.co.org
Iván Murillo Conde
Colombian Ocean Commission.
datos@cco.gov.co
Overview (500 words max):
Integrated coastal zone management (ICZM) is a tool used to attain sustainable use,
growth and protection of marine-coastal areas and its resources. This continuous and
dynamic process allow the integration of institutions and authorities with interest in the
coastal areas and their sources. Accordingly, oceans management has to involve the usage
of indicators of changes in the systems, as the Ocean Health Index (OHI), a tool useful for
ocean’s integral management that relates ocean health with communities’ wellbeing. OHI
has been developed for the measurement of ocean health connecting data from biological,
physical, economic and social aspect.
SPINCAM is a project originated from the analysis carried out in the Latin American
countries and the Caribbean aimed to establish an ICAM indicator framework that will
generate useful information on decision-makers within the sustainable development
context. Its purpose will give support to the decision-makers processes and GIAC
implementation, using an improved methodology for data analysis, communication and
regional networking.
SINCAM and OHI indicators are used as quantitative tools that may also be incorporated
into strategic, operational planning for institutions. This methodology can use all the
information collected from fishing, oceanography studies, ecosystems evaluation, water
quality analysis, among others; all this becoming a challenge for its management and
incorporation. The use of all this information is crucial for ocean discovery and sustainable
use, that will promote economic growth nationally and regionally.
Additionally, SPINCAM and OHI bring support to the maritime territory management at a
local and regional level. All the data collected, the enforcement of capabilities and
management based on these indicators, are the foundations for the inter-institutional
alliances working on the territories.
Targeted Audience (300 words max.):
SPINCAM and OHI projects support the national process of decision-makers in the identification of
ecologic and socioeconomic trends in marine coastal areas and its resources, and providing
strategies to face future global changes.
SPINCAM regional atlas contains all the information collected by the associated countries: Chile,
Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Peru. This atlas provides information regarding resources and
contents for the integral coastal management in the region.
In the same way, OHI promotes knowledge, use and integration of information systems to support
decision-makers, linking the efforts made from institutions and sectoral parties. For this reason the
countries that has been applying OHI methodology for adequate ocean information management,
seek to calculate year after year their national OHI, and even at a bigger scale.
The implementation of these tools will allow us to evaluate the marine-coastal zone actual
condition and its dynamics. This symposium aims to promote an opportunity for experiences
exchange and dialogue among sectoral parties and diverse disciplines representatives, to
consolidate a shared regional view about the importance of indicator and tools to support marine
spatial planning.
Key words:
Indicators, Coastal Management, Marine spatial planning, information systems, information
management, SIG.
Potential Invited Speakers (not yet confirmed):
-Juan Manuel Barragán Muñoz, IBERMAR, University of Cádiz, Spain.
- Ann Katrien Lescrauwaet, PEGASO, Flanders Marine Institute, Belgium.
- Mary Cárdenas Tomažič, The Man and the Biosphere (MAB) programme, France
- Benjamin Halpern, Marine Science Institute, University of California – Santa Bárbara.
- Experts