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Encora Themes
Theme 1 - Social and economic aspects of ICZM Multifunctionality and Valuation. Valuation of competing functions, to optimise 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 methodologies 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 changes to coastal systems.	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. 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. Cataloguing 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 sensing and remotely controlled measuring devices.	Theme 10 - Capacity Building, Training and Education. Comparitive assessment of ICZM training and education programmes.