During 12-14 June 2019 a team from SINTEF (Sepideh Jafarzadeh, Magnus Stoud Myhre and Andreas Misund), as WP1 (Multi-Actor Analysis) coordinator, visited NIMRD (Constanta, Romania) and worked together with NIMRD and ICEADR experts on six causal loop diagrams (CLDs) resulted from stakeholders’ meetings (3 coastal – Blue growth, Tourism, Fisheries and 3 rural – Rural development, Agriculture, Rural tourism).
All six diagrams were discussed again and merged into one (Fig.1) with 60 variables out of which 7 drivers (nothing in) – administration of Danube Delta, awareness, entrepreneurship, education training and research, recreational fishing, bioeconomy and seasonality, 3 receivers (nothing out) – land degradation, fishermen welfare and flooding and 50 ordinary variables.
Our scope was to analyse the matrix, simplify it (if possible), and prepare it for a good model.
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Author and photo: Dr. Mariana Golumbeanu