INCAM

Improving National Assessment and Monitoring Capacities for Integrated Environmental and Coastal ecosystem Management

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The proposal contributes to increase Lebanon’s capacity in important environmental concerns based on a regional approach that assess the anthropological impacts on natural resources. As a bottom up project, INCAM will first support collection of existing research data to assess the status of natural resources and identify knowledge gaps in environmental assessment capacities, especially in the intensively developed Lebanese coastal zones. A detailed action plan will be developed to strengthen institutional capacities of the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS) and convert it into a national and regional research centre of excellence. Further on, the project will enhance EU - Regional cooperation and networking by increasing the role of the EC in general and of the FP7 in particular. Special attention is given to training and dissemination. Two regional workshops on environmental institutional capacity building will be organised in Jordan and Egypt. This last event will tackle more deeply issues related to integrated coastal zone management and will be combined with the final project conference open to national, regional, international and EU stakeholders. Local dissemination and public awareness activities will be organised in critical “hot spot” areas in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. The project splits into six scientific work packages in addition to one that deals with coordination and management. The major outcome will be increasing the leading scientific role of CNRS and its centres and productive exchange of experts between the region and the EU. Short training courses will be organised for Lebanese researchers in the EU countries and young students will pursue MSc thesis in Italy. The project duration will be 24 months. The leading organization is CNRS-Lebanon and the other two partners are the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (IAM-B), Italy and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) of Toulouse, France.'

Introduzione (Teaser)

Lebanon is rich in natural capital, but especially its coastal areas are under pressure due to increasing human activities. An EU-funded project has boosted management capacity in the region, with a focus on balancing socioeconomic development with environmental protection.

Descrizione progetto (Article)

The project, known as http://www.incam-cnrs.eu (INCAM) , began by assessing the current status of Lebanon's natural resources and identifying gaps in environmental assessment capacities. The data collected concentrated on water, marine ecosystems, soil, vegetation, natural risks, man-made risks and the human development index.

A book was then compiled in conjunction with the Lebanese National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), with recommendations for the management of these natural resources. These will be of use to decision makers, stakeholders, academics, students and the public at large.

The publication of the guide satisfied one of the major aims of INCAM, which was to highlight the country's CNRS as an authority on environmental assessments. Workshops, researcher and knowledge exchanges, and other capacity-building activities also took place to this end.

For example, non-governmental organisations, ministries, environmental experts and decision makers came together at the Lebanese Parliament to discuss environmental remediation of the Upper Litani Watershed. They considered environmental pollution of the river and the potential technical, administrative and legislative management solutions.

This is one case where INCAM has shown the importance of environmental data in the promotion of sustainable development. In addition, by boosting the leading scientific role of CNRS, INCAM has boosted relations between the Lebanese coastal region and the rest of the EU.