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 ‘Issue Identification’?

Check if a System Approach Framework is really needed
Identify relevant environmental, social & economic elements
Map ecosystem services and stakeholder preferences
Identify potential issues
Apply a Geographical Information System for a final spatial analysis
Map stakeholders and list human activities

Question 2

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

MSP is a continuing, iterative process that learns and adapts over time
MSP integrates major ideas of Integrated Coastal Zone Management
MSP requires obligatory reporting to the EU MSP Platform
MSP can provide important contextual information for marine protected area management or for fisheries management
MSP includes permissions to carry out activities in and uses of the sea
MSP usually has a local (community) to regional (district, federal state) spatial scale

Question 3

Which of the following statements related to the ‘EU Floods Directive’ is correct?

The implementation of flood protection measures has to be accompanied by an ecosystem service assessment
The Directive requires to assess if water courses and coastlines are at risk from flooding
Flood risk management plans and Water Framework Directive river basin management plans shall be coordinated
The Directive requires to take adequate and coordinated measures to reduce this flood risk
The Directive regulates the relationship between nature protection and flood protection (e.g. sand nourishments)
The Directive requires to map the flood extent, assets and humans at risk in these areas

Question 4

Which of the following statements about ‘ICZM History in Europe’ is true?

In 2000, the European Parliament adopted the legally binding directive ‘Integrated Coastal Zone Management: A Strategy for Europe’
The United Nations Earth Summit of Rio de Janeiro in 1992 initiated the development of focussed European Union policy on ICZM
The Demonstration Programme pointed out that ‘management of the coasts in Europe is based on a sufficient legal framework and that joint visions and concrete ideas exist.
In Europe, ICZM is still high on the political agenda and has kept a strong environmental focus
The Demonstration Programme pointed out that ‘there has been inadequate involvement of the stakeholders in formulating and implementing solutions to coastal problems’
From 1993 to 1995, the European Commission operated a Demonstration Programme on Integrated Coastal Zone Management to take stock of the existing situation in Europe

Question 5

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

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
In 2016, the Recommendations ‘Generating Information and Knowledge about the Coastal Zone’ were adopted for the Arctic Region
In the Baltic Sea Region a Recommendation on the ‘Protection of the Coastal Strip’ was adopted already in 1994
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 2012, the North Sea Region adopted the strategy ‘Promoting ICZM Activity within the Member States’

Question 6

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

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
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
Reference conditions are a description of the biological quality elements at high status
Surface water bodies sub-divide transitional and coastal waters and are the smallest management unit of the WFD