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Encora Themes
Theme 1: Social and economic aspects of ICZM Multifunctionality and Valuation Valuation of competing functions, to optimize the societal use of coastal and marine resources.	Theme 2: ICZM Participation and Implementation Testing and improving methods to evaluate progress in the implementation of ICZM, including eGovernance.
Theme 3: Coastal and marine spatial planning Multiple-scale structuring of spatial coastal and marine planning and related decision-support systems for sustainable development.	Theme 4: Pollution, prevention and mitigation Development and application of emerging metholodogies for preventing, detecting and mitigating pollution and for identification of areas at risk.
Theme 5: Long-term geomorphologic change and climate impacts. Promoting development, demonstration & dissemination of new and emerging models & methodologies for prediction of long-term geo-morphological changes to coastal and estuarial systems, including the effects of climate change.	Theme 6: Effect of development and use on eco-morphology and coastal habitats Impact-assessment tools and environmental techniques for recovery of coastal habitats.
Theme 7: Assessment of biodiversity change Testing and improving an ecological valuation protocol for the coastal and marine environment.	Theme 8: New sustainable coastal engineering techniques Catalouging innovative coastal engineering techniques to solve practical coastal protection issues.
Theme 9: Assessment of field observation techniques New and emerging tools and practices for coastal and marine observation, with focus on remote sensinf and remotely controlled measuring devices.	Theme 10:Capacity Building, Training and Education Comparitive assessment of ICZM training and education programmes.