The SUMANOS book 'Science and Sustainable Management of the North Sea: Belgian case studies' is now available. This publication contains contributions from authors from all main SUMANOS projects with relevance in the context of sustainable management of the North Sea. It contains the final output from the SUMANOS cluster acitvities and can be considered one of the most important achievements of the project.

Details: 

'Science and Sustainable Management of the North Sea: Belgian case studies'    
Jan-Bart Calewaert & Frank Maes (eds.)
2007, 326 p + cd rom
Publicatie te bestellen via:
Academia Press, Eekhout 2 - 9000 Gent
Tel. 09/233 80 88 - Fax 09/233 14 09
Info@academiapress.be

SUMANOS Workshop in the framework of the Belgian Science Policy cluster covering the projects GAUFRE, BALANS, MAREBASSE and TROPHOS

Thursday 23 and Friday 24 November 2006
Conference room ‘Rector Vermeylen’
Het Pand, Onderbergen 1,
9000 Ghent, Belgium

The main goal of the workshop was to:

1. evaluate and discuss the efforts of the SUMANOS-projects in regards to their value and contribution to a science based support of a sustainable management and policy for the Belgian Part of the North Sea

2. formulate conclusions and a common vision for the future Belgian marine research cooperation and integration in support of management and policy

To reach these goals, the workshop programme included the presentation, evaluation and discussion of the four SUMANOS projects in three sessions. In a fourth and final session, from an overall evaluation of the combined achievements partners and invited experts have strived to privde recommendations and suggestion towards the development of a common vision for future cooperation within and beyond the SUMANOS partnership in view of scientific support for sustainable North Sea management and policy in Belgium. 

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• verslag van de SUMANOS workshop   
• verslag van de namiddagdiscussies
• Slides van de presentaties van de SUMANOS projecten
  • MAREBASSE
  • TROPHOS
  • GAUFRE
  • BALANS