National programmes

Major national programmes in which ENCORA members are involved.

Belgium

• Second scientific support plan for a sustainable development policy

Denmark

• Coastal and tidal inlets programme (2000-2004)
• CONWOY Consequences o fweather and climate changes for marine and freshwater ecosystems; conceptual and operational forecasting of the aquatic environment
• Sediment fluxes in a barrier spit system Response to changing environmental conditions
• Heavy metals in Wadden Sea sediment
• FISHNET (2001-2004) Danish Network for Fisheries and Aquaculture Research

France

• LITEAU Applied research programme in support of coastal management on (1) management and control of nutritive salts (2) chemical and microbiological elements (3) management of coastal ecosystems, sustainable management
• PNOC National Coastal Oceanographic Programme
• PNEDC National programme of biogeochemical process in ocean and flux
• PROOF National Coastal Environment Programme
• PNEC National Coastal Environment Programme
• PATOM Atmospheric and oceanic variations, meteorological and climate evolutions and energy transfer processes
• RITMER Research network on accidental maritime pollutions and their environmental consequences
• GICC Control and impact of global change, applied research programme on tools and methods for national authorities to optimise strategies against the greenhouseeffect and of adaptation to global change
• Definition of the French Martime Public area Natural indicators as reliable and perpetual tracers to define the limit reached by the highest waters
• SYSCOLAG Studies of coastal and lagunar systems
• Cotes d'Armor Coastal geomorphology and vulnerability

Germany

• Coastal Futures Integrated coastal zone management on the German coast
• KRIM Climate impact on the German coast
• MARCOPOLI Coastal dynamics and causes of change
• BELAWATT Hydrodynamic impact on Wadden Sea areas

Greece

• Integrated coastal area management for Western Saronicos Gulf
• Development of a Geographic Information System for the islands of Andros, Tinos, Mykonos and Delos
• Strategic master plan for the sustainable development of Greek coastal areas
• Development of Spatial Decision Support System for sustainable development: the case of Thassos island
• National programme for the sustainable development of Greek coasts and islands

Ireland

• HIMON Hierarchical monitoring methods for tidal flats. To provide a system of methods to determine system staus and changes which are expressed by biological and physical variations within intertidal areas
• AHA Assessment of human activity for the sustainable management of the coastal zone of the Southern Irish Sea
• Sustainable development of the periwinkle industry An assessment of the potential for the sustainable development of the edible periwinkle, Littorina littorea, industry of Ireland
• Bantry Bay Charter's Stakeholders GIS Address the challenge of succesful coastal xone management around Bantry Bay
• STORMINESS Trends, impacts and models which reflect the coastal response to storminess
• HMRC wave atlas Developing a GIS interface to the Hydraulic and Maritime Research Centre wave atlas
• Broadhaven Bay SAC Cetacean Monitoring

Italy

• ADRICOSM ADRIatic sea integrated COStal areas and river basin Management system pilot project
• CORILA Hydrodynamics and morphology; Quantity and quality of exchanges between lagoon and sea