7.1.4 Promoting Land-Sea Synergies to Foster
the ‘Source-to-Sea’ Management Approach
Bringing together stakeholders from land, coastal and sea regions to create synergies
and elaborate innovative approaches to solve common environmental issues in a
collaborative way is necessary. Increasing land-sea synergies by creating new
business opportunities in the context of the Blue and Green Growth will enable
the sustainable development of sea, coastal and rural regions, making the whole
land-sea ecosystem more resilient. This requires a paradigm shift at policy level,
towards the adoption of source-to-sea concept, in order to ensure that policies such
as the MSFD (Marine Strategy Framework Directive), WFD (Water Framework
Directive) and the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) are well connected and truly
represent the Integrated Coastal Zone Management approach as well as supporting
rural development and Blue Growth potentials.
Fig. 7.1 Alice Guittard, Mapping EU and international policy frameworks onto the source-to-sea
continuum. (Icones from Freepik in Flaticon.com)
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