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| Project Metadata Element | Details |
| Project Title | Monitoring and Evaluation of Spatially Managed Areas (MESMA) |
| Research Area | Water |
| Project Acronym | MESMA |
| Principal Investigator or Lead Irish Partner | Gerry Sutton (IE) |
| Lead Institution or Organisation | University College Cork (UCC) |
| Lead Country | Ireland |
| Latitude, Longitude (of Lead Institution) | 51.89348, -8.49206 |
| Lead Funding Entity | European Commission |
| Approximate Project Start Date | 01/11/2009 |
| Approximate Project Finishing Date | 01/11/2013 |
| Project Website (if any) | http://www.mesma.org/ |
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| Project Keywords | Integrated Management Tools; European collaboration; Spacially Managed Marine Areas; Sustainability |
| Project Abstract | The EU FP7 project MESMA focuses on marine spatial planning and aims to produce integrated management tools (concepts, models and guidelines) for Monitoring, Evaluation and implementation of Spatially Managed marine Areas, based on European collaboration. MESMA is expected to supply innovative methods and integrated strategies for governments, local authorities, stakeholders, and other managerial bodies for planning and decision making at different local, national, and European scales, for sustainable development of European seas. MESMA, in consultation with stakeholders, will develop integrated management tools (a generic framework, guidelines, data systems and models) for monitoring, evaluating Spatially Managed Areas (SMAs). The main tasks of MESMA are information analysis, the development of a generic framework, the testing and evaluation of this framework through case-studies and the development of management tools that contribute to the sustainable use of European seas. |