MARINESCAPE FORUMYacht Club of Greece

PIRAEUS26-27 May 2015

08:00 - 09:00 Registration and coffee

OPENING SESSION09:00 - 10:30

Tuesday 26th May 2015

Welcome addresses

Keynote speeches

Thymio Papayannis, Director, Med-INAAphrodite Sorotou, Organiser of Piraeus Marinescape Forum, Med-INA and CIVILSCAPE

Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons, Executive Secretary of the European Landscape Convention, Directorate General of Democracy, Council of EuropeChris Dalglish, Research and Policy Coordinator, Landscape Research GroupDirk Gotzmann, Director, CIVILSCAPE

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

SESSION I: Understanding marinescapes11:00 - 12:30Chairs

Speakers

Nejib Benessaiah, Senior Advisor, MedWetThymio Papayannis, Director, Med-INA

Jennifer Moody, Archaeologist, University of Texas at Austin / The changing dynamics of Aegean marinescapes from the Miocene to thepresent - tectonics, climate and peopleKostas Damianidis, Architectural engineer / The negative impact of European policy for fishing on maritime cultural heritage in GreeceAris Ikkos, Research Director, INSETE / A measurement of use of beaches by hotels in GreeceDiscussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

SESSION II: Governing and developing marinescapes 14:00 - 15:30Chairs

Speakers

George Vlahos, President, WWF GreeceAris Ikkos, Research Director, INSETE

Nizar Abu-Jaber, Director of Consultations and Training Centre at German Jordanian University / An opportunity for sustainable land useplanning through trans-Mediterranean cooperationAristeidis Romanos, Architect, Urban Planner / Planning Maritime SpaceCarla Gonçalves, Iniciativa Latinoamericana del Paisaje, Evolving Landscape / Coastal Zone Management Plan for the North of PortugalNatassa Kannavou, Head of Local Economic Growth and Entrepreneurship Office, Municipality of Piraeus / Integrated territorial investment

Discussion

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break

PLENARY DISCUSSION 16:00 - 17:00ModeratorsNikos Streftaris, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of OceanographyDirk Gotzmann, Director, CIVILSCAPE

Closing of the first day of the Marinescape Forum

Agenda

Chair of the ForumAlan Leslie, Director, Northlight Heritage

Tribute to Professor Oliver Rackham OBE by Kallia Pediaditi

08:30 - 09:00 Registration and coffee

SESSION III: Future prospects for Mediterranean marinescapes09:00 - 11:00

Wednesday 27th May 2015

Chairs

Speakers

Alan Leslie, Director, Northlight HeritageChris Dalglish, Research and Policy Coordinator, Landscape Research Group

Manuel Borobio Sanchiz, Managing Director, Galician Territorial Studies Institute and Associate Professor of Geography at Santiago deCompostela University / From the Galician Coastal Management Plan to the landscape strategyDemetres Karavellas, Director, WWF Greece / The WWF Mediterranean Μarine Initiative: A call for collective actionNikos Streftaris, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Institute of Oceanography / Delivering science-based advice to policymakers to achievegood environmental statusShalimar Sinno, Landscape expert, Society for the Protection of Nature in Lebanon / The marine programme of SPNLCarola Hein, Department of Architecture, TU Delft / Port Cities: Dynamic landscapes and global networks

11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break

PART B11:30 - 12:30

Speakers

Discussion

12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS14:00 - 17:00Moderated by Chris Dalglish, George Dimitropoulos, Alexis Katsaros, Alan Leslie, Kallia Pediaditis, Aphrodite Sorotou

Coffee available during the roundtable discussionsPresentation of roundtable discussion results and the Piraeus Statement on Mediterranean marinescapes17:00 - 17:45

PART A

Discussion

Closing of the Marinescape Forum by Maguelonne Déjeant-Pons and Thymio Papayannis17:45 - 18:00

Michel Gressot, Senior Economist, Global Footprint Network / Food, urbanization and transportation: three drivers of human pressure onMediterranean ecological assetsStella Kyvelou, Associate Professor, Department of Economics and Regional Development, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences andPresident of the SDMed Association / About the maritime dimension of territorial cohesion in the MediterraneanAphrodite Sorotou, Organiser of Piraeus Marinescape Forum, Med-INA and CIVILSCAPE / Towards the establishment of a MediterraneanMarinescape Observatory

SESSION 16: Coastal communities and Blue Society09:00 - 10:30

Thursday 28th May 2015 (EC EUROPEAN MARITIME DAYS at Megaron Moussikis Athens)

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Co-organised by: CIVILSCAPE, Municipality of Piraeus, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research

med inaMediterranean Institutefor Nature and Anthropos

Organised by Supported byWith the contribution of

“The landscape is a record of our roots and the growth of civilization. Each individual historic wood, heath etc. is uniquely di�erent from every other, and each has something to tell us”

The Marinescape Forum Piraeus 2015 is dedicated in memory of Prof. Oliver Rackham OBE Historical Ecologist

Oliver Rackham in The History of the Countryside, 1986

Theme 1: The Piraeus StatementTheme 2: The Mediterranean Marinescapes Observatory