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’ does not belong to SAF-step ‘System Assessment’?

Prepare the model output and results for stakeholders
Visualize the consequences of different management scenarios
Conduct stakeholder meetings
Apply the Stakeholder Preference and Planning Tool
Assess the institutional system arrangements
Carry out a systematic policy assessment

Question 2

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

A maritime spatial plan should take into account coherence with integrated coastal management
A maritime spatial plan should take into account land-sea interactions
Benefits of MSP are to reduce conflicts between sectors and create synergies between different activities
Maritime spatial planning and marine spatial planning is largely the same
Benefit of MSP is the provision of a joint guideline that has to be implemented in each EU member state until 2023
A maritime spatial plan should take into account the ecosystem-based approach

Question 3

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

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

Question 4

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

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

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true? ‘CATWOE analysis’ can be used…

For business problems
To explore functional relationships between stakeholders that are affected by a particular problem
To model socio-ecological systems
To brainstorm and broaden ones thinking and perspective about a particular problem
To describe the cause-and-effect chain of a problem
To map stakeholders that might be affected by an issue

Question 6

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

The first BWD was adopted already in 1976
Escherichia coli (E. coli) are common ubiquitous bacteria in marine environment
Intention of the BWD is to provide information to citizens about quality of their bathing waters
Intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli (E. coli) are parameters to assess the quality of bathing waters
A revised and updated BWD was adopted in 2016
Other parameters could be taken into account, such as the presence of cyanobacteria or microalgae