Harmonizing Land and Sea for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Develop innovative land-sea governance schemes based on scientific evidence and societal choices that link marine policies with the management of the land and inland waters
Draw lessons on how to trigger and facilitate institutional change and policy reforms for better marine policies.
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HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-03: Multi-layer governance performance of marine policies
Destination
Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal
Type of Action
RIA
Duration
4 years from 01.01.2024 until 31.12.2027
Project coordinator
University of Valencia
Scientific Coordinator
University of Portsmouth
Organisation Partners
Case studies
Impact
- Re-design marine policies around the land-sea connection and ease the implementation of EU and national marine policies.
- Restore marine and coastal habitats taking into account climate change and land-sea interactions.
Background
The current management of oceans, seas and coasts is fragmented across multiple institutional layers and policy areas, and based on past experience.
BlueGreenGovernance pursues an innovative approach to the governance of the seas and coastal areas that:
- promotes integration between institutional layers and across policy sectors with a clear impact on the use of the land and the sea;
- involves and engages citizens in decision-making processes, while at the same time including scientific evidence;
- responds predictively to changing physical conditions as indicated by scientific evidence on major environmental challenges as well as indigenous and local knowledge and citizen science;
- and uses e-governance tools in support of the previous three points.
With this focus and approach, the project responds to the need for better-informed decision-making processes, social engagement and digital innovation while promoting more harmonious and effective science-policy-society interfaces. The promotion of better science-policy, science-society and society-policy interactions will be embedded in the digital transformation and application of e-governance tools for codesign and service delivery.
Project Structure
With the objective of re-designing and re-orienting marine governance around the land-sea connection based on the interaction across science-policy-society via traditional and e-governance tools, BlueGreenGovernance develops along a “double funnel”. The work envisaged in BlueGreenGovernance moves from the collection of existing knowledge about problems and solutions to the development and testing of possible innovative governance schemes in specific contexts; the final purpose is to generalise and disseminate the lessons drawn from the field to other geographical and institutional contexts.
Therefore, BlueGreenGovernance develops in four steps.
- First, the project identifies existing barriers to effective marine governance and policy, and defines which enablers can be used to overcome such barriers.
- Second, the project co-develops innovations and improvements in governance schemes.
- Third, the project puts potential innovative solutions into practice and tests their feasibility and viability through policy dialogues at the relevant territorial level.
- Four, the project identifies specific strategies and actions in order to translate niche experiences into common practices. The project also develops recommendations and instruments for capacity building so that new schemes of governance are sustainable beyond the duration of the project. Stakeholders from the territories investigated in the project as well as national, EU and international key actors are involved in all four groups of activities.
These steps pursue four specific objectives (SOs) corresponding to the thematic Work Packages (WPs) of BlueGreenGovernance.
Work Package
Identification of institutional barriers and enablers
To understand the institutional and socio-political barriers jeopardising marine policies’ design, implementation and change across multiple levels of governance, and identify enablers for effective marine governance.
Co-design of innovative governance schemes
To co-design innovative schemes of governance in collaboration with scientists and all other stakeholders from target groups and direct users to indirect beneficiaries of marine policies).
Policy experimentations
To put into practice innovative governance schemes for marine policies in several European regions and sea basins in order to improve their design and implementation, and evaluate the impact of institutional innovations.
Moving towards integrated land-sea governance
To promote institutional change and policy reforms in land-sea governance beyond policy experimentations.
Case Studies
Partners
