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Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) is a nonprofit organization with a membership of around 500 institutions, NGOs and experts, in 40 countries. Its network at large involves about 2500 professionals involved in coastal and marine management issues. Founded in 1989 with the aim of promoting coastal management by bridging the gap between scientists, environmentalists, site managers, planners and policy makers, it has grown into the largest network of coastal practitioners and experts in Europe, with 13 National Branches, an International Secretariat in Leiden (the Netherlands), and offices in Barcelona (Spain), Warnemünde (Germany), Szczecin (Poland), Klaipeda (Lithuania) and Sliema (Malta). EUCC’s working area is Europe and its neighbouring regions, especially the Black Sea and the Mediterranean. EUCC’s mission has evolved throughout years of activity and currently is dedicated to conserving and maintaining healthy seas and attractive coasts for both people and nature; and, that people can enjoy these environments in a socially safe and sound way as well. To this end, regarding the coastal and marine environment, EUCC seeks to: # Promote, foster and implement ecosystem restoration initiatives and projects # Promote, foster and implement sustainable development initiatives and projects # Provide training, education and awareness raising The organisation has a number of important strategic partners and alliances including: ECNC Group, Global Sustainable Tourism Council (GSTC), BioMarine, IUCN, EECONET Action Fund, European Habitats Forum (EHF), ECOTRANS and MIO-ECSDE. Furthermore EUCC has the observer status in the OSPAR and HELCOM regional conventions and is in the process to become Barcelona Convention/Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) partner. ==Origins and history== At the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Dutch dune conservation foundation (Stichting Duinbehoud), the 1st European Dune Conference was organized in September 1987, which brought together ecologists, academics and managers of sand dune coasts from twelve European countries, in Leiden, the Netherlands, to discuss future directions for conservation management.〔Meulen, F. van der, P.D. Jungerius and J. Visser (Eds). 1989. Perspectives in coastal dune management: towards a dynamic approach. SPB Academic Publishing, The Hague〕 As a result of this conference the European Union for Dune conservation & Coastal management (EUDC) was launched and formally founded in Leiden, the Netherlands, on 6 January 1989,〔Doménech J.L. y Sanz F.J., 2010. Guía para la implementación de un sistema de gestión integrada de zonas costeras. Colección Estudios. Netbiblio, La Coruña. ISBN 978-84-9745-518-3〕 as an association under the Dutch law. Its first undertaking consisted in producing an inventory of coastal dunes throughout Europe.〔Doody, J.P., 2005. Sand dune inventory of Europe in Herrier J.-L., J. Mees, A. Salman, J. Seys, H. Van Nieuwenhuyse and I. Dobbelaere (Eds). op. cit. pp. 653-655. Proceedings ‘Dunes and Estuaries 2005’ – International Conference on Nature Restoration Practices in European Coastal Habitats, Koksijde, Belgium, 19–23 September 2005. VLIZ Special Publication 19, xiv + 685 pp.〕 Under the leadership of its Director General Albert Salman, the association evolved towards a broader coastal scope and then changed the name to European Union for Coastal Conservation (EUCC) in 1991 at the occasion of the 3rd International Conference in Galway (Ireland).〔Salman, A. (1999). The EUCC 1989 – 1999: A decade of contributions to sustainable coastal management, in: Rabski, K. (Ed.). Connecting science and management in the coastal zone. Proceedings of the 7th EUCC International Conference. Coastlines’99. Międzyzdroje, Poland. EUCC – Poland. ISBN 83-912908-0-8. pp. 15-19〕 Since then, the abbreviation has been kept. Milestones of the first period are the organisation of the 1st European Coastal Conservation Conference in Scheveningen 1991, and a contribution to the preparation of the Pan-European Biological and Landscape Diversity Strategy (PEBLDS), adopted in 1995 by the Environment for Europe Ministers Conference. Later on, under the auspices of UNEP and the Council of Europe, EUCC led the elaboration of the European Coastal & Marine Ecological Network (ECMEN) 〔Bennett, G (2002), Guidelines on the Application of Existing International Instruments in developing the PanEuropean Ecological Network, Nature and Environment Nº 124, Council of Europe Publishing. p. 85.., Números 18-124〕〔Bennett, G, Wit, P (2001) The development and application of Ecological Networks: A review of proposals, plans and programmes. AID Environment/IUCN. p 51-52.〕 and the European Code of Conduct for Coastal Zones.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CO-DBP : 19 April 1999 : European Code of Conduct for Coastal Zones )〕 The latter was officially adopted by the Council of Europe Ministers in 1999. When the Maastricht Treaty established the European Union under its current name in 1993, the organization started identifying problems of misinterpretations of its name and resolved to change it to EUCC – The Coastal Union in 2001. During these years the main field of work was the promotion of integrated coastal zone management in Europe, contributing to the EC Demonstration Programme on ICZM (1996-1999). EUCC participated in the UNEP ICZM Conference of 1998 in St Petersburg 〔UNEP/ROE RSHU. Environmentally sustainable development in the coastal zone: integrated coastal zone management. /Meeting of experts on a harmonization of approaches to Protection of biological and landscape diversity and Management of coastal and maritime resources, Saint-Petersburg, 16–19 November 1998〕 which recommended a demonstration programme to be launched on ICZM for Central and Eastern Europe and Central Asia. EUCC took the lead to organise in conjunction with UNEP’s PAP/RAC, the first intergovernmental ICZM meeting (ICMCEENIS), in Croatia in June 2000, bringing together representatives from 18 non EU coastal States and from the Regional Seas Programmes for the Eastern Mediterranean, Baltic, Caspian and Black Seas who expressed support common ICZM initiatives for their regions. This role was boosted by the adoption of the European Commission Recommendation on ICZM in 2002 〔Commission of the European Communities. Council Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 May 2002 concerning the implementation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management in Europe, Brussels L 148/24, 2002.〕 when EUCC entered the EU ICZM Expert Group and the Working Group on Indicators and Data, and was assigned the elaboration of an indicator-based methodology to measure progress on ICZM implementation.〔An indicator set to measure the progress in the implementation of integrated coastal zone management in Europe (2004). Pickaver A. H., Gilbert C., Breton F. Ocean & coastal management 47, 9-10: 449-462〕 A milestone of this period is the contribution to the EC DG ENV commissioned study EUROSION which resulted on recommendations on how to manage coastal erosion in Europe in a sustainable way. EUCC had a mayor role on the development of the policy recommendations 〔Doody, P, et al. (2004) Living with Coastal Erosion in Europe, Sediment and space for sustainability: Results of the EUROSION study. ISBN 92-894-7496-3, European Communities, 2004〕 and the publication of the study results. Acknowledging the need for better covering the marine part of the coastal zone, and in line with the EU boost to Integrated Maritime Policy, the organization changed the name in 2009 to the current Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC). While keeping on working on ICZM for example in the OURCOAST database for the European Commission, EUCC broadened the scope of its activities. It is highly involved in the EC Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), particularly on the descriptors marine litter and underwater noise, and was at the forefront of the creation of the European maritime stakeholders’ platform which idea was launched at 2009 European Maritime Day in Rome, headed by Prof. Johan Vande Lanotte, who was then EUCC’s president. Since 2009, EUCC has been involved in an integration process with a number of organizations, working under the name ECNC Group. The purpose of the grouping is to facilitate and better develop the activities of the members by a pooling of resources, outreach or skills. This will produce better results than the members acting alone. The ECNC Group consists of two units: 'Biodiversity and Nature' (ECNC) and 'Coastal and Marine' (EUCC). The members of the ECNC Group are ECNC-European Centre for Nature Conservation, the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC) and Centro Mediterráneo EUCC. Euronatur, the NatureBureau and EECONET Action Fund are observers of the ECNC Group. EUCC's presidents 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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