Dates: 19 June 2023 to 23 June 2023
Target audience: Master 1 students, doctoral students, professionals
Price: Free for students registered at Aix-Marseille University and CIVIS universities, €200 for other participants.
Location: Marseille, Luminy Campus, Bat. OCEANOMED, and Endoume Marine Station, Marseille
Language: The majority of lectures will be given in French. Some lectures will be in English (level of comprehension in French and English required).
ECTS : 3 - 35 teaching hours - Daily MCQ examinations
Highlights:
- 2 excursions to the Calanques National Park
- 1 Boat trip
- 1 practical session on methods for monitoring plastic pollution, lectures by leading experts.
A cross-disciplinary approach to current issues and challenges relating to the conservation and management of marine protected areas:
Interdisciplinary: oceanography, law, geography, marine ecology, economics, paleoceanography, sociology, biogeochemistry, history
Varied programme: field trips, classroom teaching, experiments, lectures, etc.
Expert and diverse contacts: a summer school based on partnerships and special relationships between research teachers and players in the socio-economic world
Topics covered
Day 1: General presentation of the Parc national des Calanques and issues relating to MPAs (outing and forward-looking workshop).
Day 2: Vulnerabilities, risks and pressures in a context of climate change.
Day 3: Managing fisheries resources.
Day 4: Marine pollution - managing plastic contamination.
Day 5: From conflict to compromise: reconciling activities within MPAs (outing and course).
Organisers
Cadoret Anne, Senior Lecturer, UMR CNRS 7303, TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille University, anne.cadoret@univ-amu.fr
Ricard Pascale, CNRS Research Fellow, UMR DICE, CERIC, Aix-Marseille University, pascale.RICARD@univ-amu.fr
Sabatier François, Senior Lecturer, UMR CNRS CEREGE, Aix-Marseille University, francois.sabatier@univ-amu.fr
Furtado Yoan, Project Manager, Institute of Ocean Sciences, Aix-Marseille University, yoan.furtado@osupytheas.fr
Objectives and target skills
Provide knowledge directly or indirectly related to research themes or professional choices linked to MPA management issues.
Understanding and linking the fundamentals of different disciplines around a common object: the marine protected area.
Understanding the complexity of management decisions and the plurality of methods, measures and interconnections involved in managing marine protected areas.
Understand the variety of stakeholders and the different levels of governance involved in marine protected areas.
Adapt to and actively participate in a variety of activities.
Working in interdisciplinary teams.
Presentation
The fight against the erosion of biodiversity, in the context of the sixth mass extinction, has helped to shape international and national strategies for the protection and management of coastal and maritime ecosystems. Marine protected areas are a key component of the public policies that have resulted, and their number has increased considerably in recent decades. According to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) defined by the United Nations, States must effectively protect at least 10% of their marine and coastal areas, a target that has risen to 30% since the 15th Conference of the Parties on Biological Diversity. The achievement of quantified targets to combat biodiversity loss nevertheless depends on their effectiveness, understood as their capacity to carry out conservation actions that are beneficial to the restoration or maintenance of ecosystems and to last over time. Ecological and biological aspects, as well as legal, socio-economic, cultural and political aspects, all need to be taken into account when managing MPAs.
The aim of this summer school is to provide interdisciplinary knowledge on MPAs and the challenges of managing them, using a case study: the Parc national des Calanques, at the interface between land and sea and town and nature. The Parc national des Calanques, established in 2012, is a world-renowned marine protected area covering a land and sea area of more than 141,200 hectares (including 30% in enhanced protection zones corresponding to the 'hearts of the national park'). The park is characterised by spectacular landscapes inherited from its geological history and shaped by past human activities. It is home to a diversity of marine ecosystems, a rich cultural and intangible heritage, and a wide range of professional and leisure activities. Adjacent to one of France's largest metropolises, the area is also subject to anthropogenic pressures and evolving environmental risks.
The Calanques National Park will be the entry point for discussing the current challenges facing MPAs, the vulnerability of ecosystems, the management of fisheries resources, marine pollution, coastal erosion, climate change and social acceptance, as well as the technical, political and legislative tools and mechanisms available at national, regional and international level. These issues will be addressed during field trips, lectures and conferences by researchers and teacher-researchers from Aix Marseille University, socio-economic players from the metropolitan area and international experts specialising in the above-mentioned fields. A forward-looking workshop on anchorages, led by a member of the National Park staff, will provide a concrete opportunity to cross-reference the themes addressed during the week.
The courses and lectures will enable students (Masters and doctoral students), professionals and those involved in biodiversity conservation (managers of natural areas) to understand the long-term and day-to-day issues involved in managing an MPA, by considering several time scales: geological, ecological, historical, legal and political time, in a socio-ecosystemic approach. Lectures and presentations in the classroom and in the field will also enable students to navigate between scalar levels: from the habitat of a micro-organism to the landscape of the Mediterranean, to the flows and movements of the planet, via the more territorial and local dynamics that influence current and future conservation measures.
The programme of this summer school is designed to provide knowledge on a particular focus each day through lectures and discussions led by scientists from different disciplines and institutional and socio-economic speakers. Two field trips are planned, including one at sea on the first day, which will enable students to get to know each other better and put the challenges of managing a marine area into context.