Evaluation of Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) in Europe

A questionnaire was designed by the Evaluation Team and used as a further tool of the ICZM Evaluation. It was widely distributed by e-mail and by hand to targeted key ICZM stakeholders in the coastal Member States and the four Acceding and Candidate Countries, in order to enlarge the empirical basis of our findings. Organisations such as the EUCC - The Coastal Union as well as many coastal management related projects further distributed this questionnaire within their networks.

In addition to the hard copy distribution, the online questionnaire was placed on the this public ICZM Evaluation site, as well as made visible on the webpages of the European Commission's DGENVD3 ICZM page. Numerous Ministries within coastal Member States taking part in the evaluation also displayed the questionnaire to boost international awareness and response.

Questionnaires were translated from English into French by the Evaluation Team and into Romanian and Croatian by dedicated experts in the respective countries.

The questionnaire contained a mix of open and closed questions and were fully anonymous. Questions referred to the process and results of developing and implementing national ICZM strategies as well as to EU policies and measures that were conducive or hampering. Suggestions were invited as to how the respective Member State and the EU may promote the process in future.

The deadline for submission of questionnaires was 30 June. Over 140 questionnaires representing nearly all coastal Member States were received. The analysis of these submissions will take place in July and August and will complement and validate findings, trends and recommendations.

If you are interested in contributing to this Evaluation of ICZM in Europe and would like a chance to express your viewpoints, please go to the "Feedback Welcome" section of this website.

Thank you for your cooperation!