CMM Online Test - IKZM Lehrbrief 2019

Question 1

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

All assessments, maps and plans prepared shall be made available to the public

The Directive requires to assess if water courses and coastlines are at risk from flooding

The Directive requires to map the flood extent, assets and humans at risk in these areas

The Directive requires to take adequate and coordinated measures to reduce this flood risk

Flood risk management plans and Water Framework Directive river basin management plans shall be coordinated

The Directive asks for a comprehensive economic assessment of costs and benefits of flood protection

Question 2

Which of the following statements related to the ‘Baltic Sea – State, Trends & Challenges’ is correct?

In 2009, about 13 wind farms existed in the Baltic Sea. Until 2030 the number could increase to 67 offshore wind farms

In 1992, HELCOM listed 162 major pollution hot spots in the Baltic Sea Region. In 2019, 19 industrial hot spots and 23 municipal or combined municipal and industrial sites still existed

The number of beach litter items ranges from around 50 on reference beaches to up to 300 on urban beaches, per 100 metres of beach

Recently, the number of improving trends outweighs the number of deteriorating trends in the monitored hazardous substances

The assessment of fish from a biodiversity perspective indicates good status in about half of the assessed coastal areas

Three out of nine assessed commercial fish stocks are in good status with respect to both biomass and fishing mortality rates

Question 3

Which of the following statements about the ‘Ecosystem Services’ (ES) are true?

ES are defined as the benefits humans obtain from ecosystems

Indirect benefits (e.g. regulation of water supply and quality, nutrient cycling) are not considered to be ES

ES can be grouped into provisioning, regulating and cultural services

ES have to be assessed monetarily

Direct benefits (e.g. food, raw material) to humans are not considered to be ES

Ecosystem services are important for flora and fauna

Question 4

Which of the following ‘actions and tools’ does not belong to SAF-step ‘System Design’?

Discuss potential management scenarios with stakeholders and define success criteria and indicators

Ensure the involvement of all relevant institutions and stakeholders

Develop a conceptual model and identify Ecological-Social-Economic (ESE) linkages

Assess the system state and identify external hazards

Installation of the administrative structure to ensures horizontal and vertical integration of management

Define administrative and virtual system boundaries

Question 5

Which of the following statements about ‘ICZM – Tools & Approaches’ is true? Decision support tools (DSTs)…

Include tools that are applied to support participation processes

Are used to support science and policy

Include quantitative assessment tools with a low level of uncertainty

Include a wide variety of tools ranging for instance from environmental descriptors to economic and social evaluations

Are heavily used in practice to support decision making processes

Include tools that are directly applied by authorities to decide on a management option

Question 6

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

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

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

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

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