Project Profile: COAST Card
Coastal Ocean Assessment for Sustainability and Transformation
Who?
| Principal Investigators: | William Dennison, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, United States |
| Partners: | Rhodora Azanza, The Marine Science Institute - University of the Phillipines Diliman, Phillipines Pal Ingebrigt Davidsen, University of Bergen, Norway Dattesh Desai, CSIR - National Institute of Oceanography, India Kazuo Nadaoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan |
| Sponsors: | Ministry of Earth Sciences, India Japan Science and Technology Agency, Japan Research Council of Norway, Norway Department of Science and Technology, Philippines National Science Foundation, United States |
What?
| Full Project Title: | Coastal Ocean Assessment for Sustainability and Transformation |
| Full Call Title: | Oceans2018 |
| Website: | https://coastcard.jp/ |
Why?
| Project Objective: | COAST Card is an innovative stakeholder-driven tool that monitors, forecasts, and reports the effectiveness of management decisions on coastal and ocean sustainability. Massive changes in climate, population, pollution, and consumption patterns place coastal and ocean systems at increasing risk, so a new set of robust and transformative tools are needed to produce well-balanced policies that will lead to improving environmental resources at a global scale. COAST Cards will do this by merging three tools: a) status assessment through a report card process, b) societal guidance provided through social network analyses, and c) prioritized actions identified with system dynamics models. The synergistic impact of merging these three approaches into the COAST Card will enable forecasting the effectiveness of future management regimes on coastal ecological, economic and social aspects. Project outputs include dynamic COAST Cards for Chesapeake Bay (USA) and Manila Bay (Philippines), development of a training program and framework for implementing COAST Cards in Tokyo Bay and Ishigaki Island (Japan) and the Goa coast (India). A broad dissemination plan includes science communication products, peer review papers, teaching and training and an interactive learning environment so that the COAST Card approach can be emulated throughout the world. The process of co-developing a COAST Card brings together different stakeholders including: a) social sciences/humanities/economy, b) natural sciences/technology, and c) societal partners (i.e. citizens, industry, decision-makers, civil society organizations) to work together to co-produce new knowledge that can serve as the foundation for social learning. New and powerful collaborations will promote behavior change and collective action to accelerate the sustainable and equitable use of oceans and coastal systems in an era of rapid global change. |
| Call Objective: | This CRA call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of ocean sustainability, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #14 (Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development) as the overall framework. This call encourages global partnerships of academics and non-academics to address one or more of the following topics: 1) Pathways toward a sustainable and equitable use of oceans, 2) accounting for and minimizing impacts of global change. |
Where?
| Regions: | |
| Countries: | India, Japan, Norway, Philippines, United States of America (USA) |
When?
| Duration: | 48 |
| Call Date: | 29 October 2018 |
| Project Award Date: | 12 February 2020 |
