CMM Online Test - IKZM Lehrbrief 2019

Question 1

Which of the following statements about ‘EU Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP)’ is true?

A maritime spatial plan should take into account land-sea interactions

The EU MSP Platform is the international agency for implementing EU Maritime Spatial Planning

A maritime spatial plan should take into account coherence with integrated coastal management

Benefit of MSP is the provision of a joint guideline that has to be implemented in each EU member state until 2023

Maritime spatial planning and marine spatial planning is largely the same

Benefits of MSP are to reduce conflicts between sectors and create synergies between different activities

Question 2

Which of the following facts about ‘Utilization of Europe’s Coasts and Seas’ is true?

Aquaculture production of shellfish in the EU has been decreasing since 2004

The three largest European port operations are Rotterdam, Marseille and Barcelona

Oil and gas extraction is expected to steadily grow in Europe because of new technologies

Wave and tidal power is an important source of clean power in Europe, and increased steadily during the last decades

Marine aquaculture production is increasing in Europe

It is expected that marine mining will see continued decline because of high costs

Question 3

Which of the following statements about ‘Integrated Coastal Zone Management cycle’ is true?

ICZM approaches developed during the early 2000s are well suitable for practical applications and caused many successful local case studies

ICZM is a well-defined, stepwise, iterative and linear process

Systems Approach Framework covers the steps Initiation, Planning, Implementation as well as Monitoring and Evaluation

The Ecological-Social-Economic (ESE) Assessment is an alternative approach to the Systems Approach Framework

The Systems Approach Framework provides a new stepwise guide to sustainable ICZM

The Systems Approach Framework allows a team to develop a management strategy, based on interaction between science, policy and stakeholders

Question 4

Which of the following facts with respect to ‘Definitions’ is true?

The Littoral zone extends seawards from the foreshore to some distance beyond the breaker zone

The Coastline is the line that forms the boundary between the coast and the shore

In the European Union, the offshore boundary of coastal waters is one nautical mile of the baseline

Transitional waters are surface waters in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline, but influenced by freshwater flows

In the European Union, the coastal zone is defined as the zone between shoreline and 3 km inland from the coast

Coastal seas in Europe are the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, The Caspian Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea

Question 5

Which of the following is a target of the ‘EU Biodiversity Strategy’?

Maintain and restore ecosystems

Reduce contaminants in fish and other seafood

Minimize human-induced eutrophication

Protect species and habitats

Ensure sea-floor integrity

Combat invasive alien species

Question 6

Which of the following statements about climate change and the ‘EU Climate Change Strategy’ is correct?

Oxygen-depleted zones in the Baltic Sea have increased more than 10-fold since 1900

Ocean surface pH is projected to decrease to values between 4.05 and 3.75 by the end of 21st century, depending on future CO2 emissions levels

Several recent model-based studies and expert assessments have suggested an upper boundary for the global mean sea level rise in the 21st century in the range of 1.5–2.0 m

Some water-borne diseases, such as vibriosis infections are likely to increase with increasing sea surface temperatures

A first ‘EU strategy on adaptation to climate change’ was adopted already in 1990 and aimed at promoting research on climate change

The ‘EU strategy on adaptation to climate change’ adopted in 2013 aims to make Europe more climate-resilient and to enhance the preparedness to respond to the impacts of climate change