Mediterranean Cooperation for On-Shore Accessibility and Sustainability Themes: Network for managing urban coastal areas

The MedCOAST.Net Project aims to the implementation of collective policies of urban coastal area management, with emphasis on access for all, sustainable development and environmental management, as well as safeguard of the natural and cultural resources or urban coastal areas, support of their comparative advantages, improvement of knowledge, raise of awareness, rejuvenation of declining urban coastal areas and the establishment of an extended and permanent network of authorities and agencies for sustainable urban coastal zone management. The above objectives will be accomplished through actions of establishing a common policy framework, training and awareness raising, application of EMAS system, on the ground pilot actions of access provision improvements, signing, information facilities, to be followed by evaluation, transferability of the methods used and dissemination of the results