CMM Online Test - IKZM Lehrbrief 2019

Question 1

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

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

Include quantitative assessment tools with a low level of uncertainty

Are used to support science and policy

Are heavily used in practice to support decision making processes

Include tools that are applied to support participation processes

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

Question 2

Which of the following steps does not belong to the development and implementation of ‘Maritime Spatial Planning’ (MSP) according to Ehler & Douvere

Identifying needs and establishing authority

Monitoring and evaluating performance

An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of the environmental consequences

Defining and analysing existing conditions and future conditions

Approving, implementing and enforcing the spatial management plan

A Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of the spatial management plan

Question 3

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

Assess the limitations of the current sectoral approach

Apply the indicator-based Sustainability Assessment Tool

Assess if the objectives were reached

Evaluate the need to re-iterate the Systems Approach Framework

Apply the Ecosystem Service Assessment Tool

Evaluate the social organization in the coastal zone

Question 4

Which of the following statements about ‘State of ICZM (in Europe)’ is true?

The EU Strategy on ICZM and the subsequent ICZM Recommendations caused a lot of activities all over Europe

The problems in our coastal zones are largely solved and the competition for space is successfully addressed by maritime spatial planning

The EC-Directive on ‘establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning’ of 2014 includes major ICZM elements

ICZM still suffers from weaknesses, such as insufficient political and legal status or the lack of a consistent and applicable process for practitioners and policy makers

During recent years, ICZM largely vanished from the national and European political agenda

To strengthen ICZM, a guided, systematic, stepwise, user-friendly approach is necessary

Question 5

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

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

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

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

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

Question 6

Which of the following statements belong to explicitly mentioned principles in the ‘ICZM Recommendations for Europe (2002)’?

Regular obligatory reporting to the Commission and an EU ICZM Expert group on the experience

Use of a joint single instrument and law designed to facilitate coherence between planning and management

Local specificity and the great diversity of European coastal zones which will make it possible to respond to their practical needs with specific solutions and flexible measures

Adaptive management during a gradual process which will facilitate adjustment as problems and knowledge develop

Development of a legally binding national strategy to implement the principles for integrated management of the coastal zone in every member state

A long-term perspective which will take into account the precautionary principle and the needs of present and future generations