Online Test

This type of multiple choice test will be used in the exam! However, the 'Online Test' does not cover all possible questions! 65% correct answers are needed to pass the test!

Question 1

Which of the following ‘actions and tools’ belongs to SAF-step ‘Monitoring & Evaluation’?

Apply the indicator-based Sustainability Assessment Tool
Assess the limitations of the current sectoral approach
Apply the Ecosystem Service Assessment Tool
Evaluate the social organization in the coastal zone
Assess if the objectives were reached
Monitor the co-ordinating mechanism

Question 2

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

In the European Union, the offshore boundary of coastal waters is one nautical mile of the baseline
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
Territorial waters extend at most 12 nautical miles from the baseline of a coastal state
Transitional waters are surface waters in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline, but influenced by freshwater flows
In the United States of America, the coastal zone is defined seawards up to the continental shelf edge
In the European Union, the coastal zone is defined as the zone between shoreline and 3 km inland from the coast

Question 3

Which of the following statements about the ‘EU Water Framework Directive (WFD)’ is correct?

Reference conditions are a description of the biological quality elements at high status
Transitional waters are partly saline surface water bodies in the vicinity of river mouths
Biological quality elements (fish, benthic, invertebrates, aquatic flora) are used to describe the good ecological status of water bodies
The WFD wants to expand the scope of water protection to all waters, surface waters and groundwater
The programmes of measures were successfully implemented until 2015
The WFD ensures a water management based on river basins

Question 4

Which of the following statements about ICZM in Regional Seas is true?

In 2012, the North Sea Region adopted the strategy ‘Promoting ICZM Activity within the Member States’
In the Mediterranean, the ‘Protocol on Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Mediterranean’, is the first supra-national (Europe, Africa and Asia), legally-binding ICZM agreement
In 2016, the Recommendations ‘Generating Information and Knowledge about the Coastal Zone’ were adopted for the Arctic Region
Since the EU is not a contracting party to the Bucharest Convention covering the Black Sea, a strategic action plan related to ICZM has not been adopted yet
In 1996 VASAB (Visions and Strategies around the Baltic Sea) already adopted ‘Common Recommendations for Spatial Planning of the Coastal Zone in the Baltic Sea Region’
The EU initiated a systematic description of 350 coastal management case studies from all over Europe, compiled in a joint database

Question 5

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

ICZM is a well-defined, stepwise, iterative and linear process
The Ecological-Social-Economic (ESE) Assessment is an alternative approach to the Systems Approach Framework
ICZM approaches developed during the early 2000s are well suitable for practical applications and caused many successful local case studies
Systems Approach Framework covers the steps Initiation, Planning, Implementation as well as Monitoring and Evaluation
The Systems Approach Framework allows a team to develop a management strategy, based on interaction between science, policy and stakeholders
The Systems Approach Framework provides a new stepwise guide to sustainable ICZM

Question 6

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

Benefits of MSP are to encourage investment
Maritime spatial planning and marine spatial planning is largely the same
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
A maritime spatial plan should take into account the ecosystem-based approach