7.2.4 Fostering Land-Sea Synergies: Initial Findings from
the COASTAL Project
Following the sectoral workshops, the main issues facing the different coastal-rural
stakeholders were identified. Despite the diversity of the case studies, it was possible
to distil several common issues that need to be addressed.
As presented in Table 7.1, issues related to the water resource (regarding the
quality and the scarcity of the resource), land availability as well as the lack of
rural
sector
coastal
sector
coastal/rural
integration
Fig. 7.4 COASTAL multiactor labs (cf. COASTAL
project)
Problem Definition
Mental/Mapping
Multi-Actor Labs
Model/Testing
quantitative analysis
qualitative analysis
Designing
SD Model
Business & Policy
Recommendations
Fig. 7.3 Collaborative
system dynamics modelling
in COASTAL
(Cf. COASTAL project)
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