The CONSCIENCE project, results and outcomes
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Concepts and Science for Coastal Erosion Management
The CONSCIENCE project, results and outcomes
12 April 2010
Marcel Marchand
Concepts and Science for Coastal Erosion Management
EU 6th Framework RTDCall SSP5-A (Scientific support to policies):
‘to support the formulation and implementation of Community Policies, by providing scientific contributions to policies that are targeted precisely on needs, coherent across the various Community policy areas, and sensitive to changes in policies as they take place’.
Scientific Officer: • Dr. Karen FABBRI (till 1 April 2010)• Nicoleta-Ariana NASTASEANU (from 1 April)
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Rationale• EUROSION project: • DG Env. 2002-2004• recommendation 1: restoring the sediment
balance and providing space for coastal processes
• introduction of 4 concepts:– coastal sediment cell– favourable sediment status– strategic sediment reservoir– coastal resilience
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Project partnersDeltares Research inst. the NetherlandsEUCC Mediterranean Centre NGO SpainCoastal & Marine Res. Centre University IrelandInt. Centre Coastal Resources Res. University SpainHR Wallingford SME United KingdomGeoecomar Research Inst. RomaniaInstitute of Hydroengineering Research Inst. PolandPriority Actions Programme other Croatia
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Pilot sites
1: Holland coast (the Netherlands)2: Hel peninsula (Poland)3: Danube Delta coast (Romania)4: Costa Brava (Spain)5: Pevensey Bay (United Kingdom)6: Inch Beach (Ireland)
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Ultimate goal of project
Make coastal erosion concepts...(resilience, sediment cells, sediment
reservoir, favourable sediment status)operational for management...(EU context, different coasts, different
management settings, ICZM, sustainability)
that is scientifically justified...(knowledge, data, models, tools)
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Main challenges
Science – Policy interface:Complexity of physical
processes and social context
Uncertainty: modelsTime and space scalesEnd user involvement
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Key issues and concepts
• Coastal resilience• Sediment cells• Strategic Sediment Reservoir• Favourable Sediment Status
• Frame of Reference
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Strategic objective
Tactical objective
2. Benchmarking procedure 3. Intervention 4. Evaluation procedure1. Quantitative State
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Desired state
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Frame of Reference for policy implementation
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Main findings• Eurosion concepts are mixture of scientific and policy
connotations• they are useful if:
– temporal and spatial boundaries are explicit– objectives for coastal erosion management are made explicit
space (km)
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Hybrid concepts
• Coastal resilience
• Favourable sediment status
• Strategic sed. reservoir
• Coastal cell
system property (‘science’) equilibrium profilestrategic objective (‘policy’)
sediment budget(‘science’)
favourable for what?(‘policy’)
sediment budget(‘science’)
when strategic?(‘policy’)
sediment processes(‘science’: e.g. depth of closure)
time horizon(‘policy’)
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FoR as guidance
Frame of Reference method: useful to guide erosion management
makes objectives clearshows management steps
role of knowledge becomes clearshows need for institutional arrangements
(who is responsible for what?)
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Measures: Set back lines
• needed for resilience
• trade off between risks and economic profit
• risk lines requires modelling
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Sand nourishments
• resilient / adaptive to sea level rise• requires monitoring/models• requires well established
institutionalised erosion management
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Hard structures
• robust / resistant• side effects• not adaptive to sea level rise
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Erosion models
• physical scale experiments• mathematical models• simple reprofunctions
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Hs,o= 4 to 8 mTp=7 to 12 s
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Data and monitoring
• great variety of monitoring methods• coastal state indicators (CSI) are key to
effective monitoring programmeexamples of CSI:• dune strength• beach width• shoreline position
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European perspective
• Implementation Eurosion concepts in Europe often hampered by lack of explicit objectives for erosion policy
• Existing EU Directives on floods, water and sea do not address the coastal erosion problem
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Main conclusions
Coastal practitioners:• use Eurosion concepts and FoR as guidance• formulate CSI’s for benchmarking and
monitoringNational level:• formulate coastal erosion policies and objectivesEU level:• integrate Eurosion recommendations in EU
policies and directives
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Thank You!
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Coastal resilience
• Is resilience a natural state of the coast?• What about natural receding or accreting
coasts?• Which time scales are we looking at?• Not applicable to soft cliff coasts?!• Resilience is not an aim in itself but a
means to arrive at sustainability.
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Coastal Sediment Cell
• How to delineate a CSC?
• How do CSC’s behave in time?
• Cross-boundary problems / administrative boundary does not coincide
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Favourable Sediment Status
• How to define? • Who decides what is favourable?• Which parameters to measure?• Which Coastal State Indicators?
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Strategic Sediment Reservoir
• When is a sediment deposit strategic?• Who decides?• What are the consequences if sediment is
considered inside or outside the reservoir?• How to deal with distant sources (e.g. river
catchments)?