Stockholm University, the lead partner for the Swedish MAL3 study area and the co-lead partner for WP2 on knowledge transition, has published a COASTAL-relevant result on the Horizon Results Platform on April 2021, highlighting the need for paradigm shifts in policy and strategy for coastal eutrophication mitigation in the Baltic Sea coasts. Despite various policy frameworks developed and applied to improve coastal water quality and mitigate eutrophication, opposite change trends are still seen in the Baltic coastal waters. Recent data-driven investigation of Baltic coastal conditions has found and highlighted the coastal waters and their quality as melting pots of impacts from both the local land-catchment of each coast and the water quality conditions over the open sea. These findings challenge simplified unidirectional source-to-sea paradigms for coastal water quality and eutrophication policy and management strategies. They point at a required shift in coastal policy and strategy, to account for the mixed local-catchment and whole-sea influences on coastal conditions and the possibilities to improve coastal water quality and combat eutrophication.
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The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has also recently published their result on the platform on Connecting Research Infrastructures with stakeholder networks for integrated management of coastal and rural areas.
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