EMOVE

In the project “Estuaries on the MOVE” (EMOVE), four partners from four different North Sea Region countries (The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Sweden) work together to provide insight on what we know and need to find out by research or pilots to maintain accessible, flood safe and ecological resilient estuaries and ports. With the numerous stakeholders EMOVE represents, the project will put efforts in turning these stakeholders into “committed shareholders”. Above all, the project will develop a joint vision on how to be able to maintain accessible estuaries and the ports linked to these estuaries. EMOVE will deliver an Innovative Virtual Communication Platform (IVCP) as a way to facilitate (trans)national and regional communication and cooperation concerning complex spatial problems for estuaries. With this knowledge and the community led approach, accessibility of harbours and estuarine areas will be improved.

List of the most important natural and social driving forces responsible for estuarine changes

List of the main pressures triggering changes in estuarine systems

List of the main shared values, opinions and emotions of the stakeholders

Identification of the development goals of different land users

Appraisal of land use induced effects on the current status of key system parameters

Identification and appraisal of the effects of land use adjustments

Identified appropriate solutions to cope with the pressures of the particular estuary

Identification of existing appropriate solutions to cope with the pressures of the particular estuary

Identified business ideas based on the assessment of problems perspectives and the integration of supraregional solutions