Javier García SanabriaUniversidad de Cádiz | UCA · Department of History, Geography and Philosophy
Javier García Sanabria
Postdoctoral researcher
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Introduction
My research is focused on Governance of marine and coastal areas. Then, I´m interested on Marine Spatial Planning process, Integrated Coastal Zone Management, public participation, policies, institutions... approaches like ecosystem based management. I use to work with D(A)PSIWR(M) framework (Elliott et al), Decalogue of management (Barragán 2014), Policy cycle, Orders of frameworks (Olsen, 2006); Spyglass (García-Sanabria 2014).
Additional affiliations
October 2014 - present
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- My research is related with Integrated Coastal Zone Management and marine spatial planning. I study the governance of coastal and marine areas using a comparative methodology called "Decalogue" under the approach of Spyglass conceptual model.
October 2014 - present
Position
- Half-time professor
Description
- Master degree on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, resposible of the subject of Marine Spatial Planning. I also teach Integrated Coastal Zone Management in a course at International University of Andalucia. Im also professor in the degree of Tourism.
Education
November 2011 - July 2014
University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
Field of study
- Governance, marine and coastal management
October 2009 - February 2010
University of Cadiz, Cadiz, Spain
Field of study
- Marine sciences and management
November 2008 - December 2009
Publications
Publications (51)
In recent years the European Union has firmly committed itself to energy from oceans as a means of decarbonising the European energy system. Despite a favourable political landscape, the development of offshore renewables still faces economic and technological barriers, which are coupled with the inherent difficulties of an increasingly industriali...
Lessons learned from the process of the ICZM Strategy as part of the socioecological system of the Mar Menor (Murcia, Spain) may well be of interest to coastal managers. ICZM Strategy was one of the instruments chosen by the regional government of Murcia to deal with the critical situation of the largest lake in the western Mediterranean. Human act...
Preliminary studies demonstrate the availability of significant renewable energy potential in Spanish waters. Its use could contribute to achieving the recently updated national objectives for the generation of clean energy in the future National Energy and Climate Plan 2021–2030. Despite the different initiatives that were unsuccessfully proposed...
Addressing impacts from human activities in coastal zones requires improving stakeholder engagement in public policies. This is particularly difficult for seaports, as a strategic sector, traditionally reluctant to assume external constraints. However, ports are as determinant in coastal transformation as in spatial planning processes. This study s...
As the Whale and dolphin Watching (WW) industry grows, so does the need for better industry management. The present study aims to both evaluate the current compliance of WW operators with local WW statutory tools, as well as gain a multi-perspective overview of WW activities in the Strait of Gibraltar. To this end, a total of 637 questionnaires wer...
Whale and dolphin watching (WW) is the world's largest cetacean-related economic activity. Its growth in the Strait of Gibraltar calls for adequate management for achieving social, economic and ecological sustainability. This study aims to gain a multi-stakeholder perspective of WW activity, and assess the socio-economic profile of WW customers, th...
The aim of this study is to assess marine-protected areas’ (MPAs) effectiveness in the protection of marine mammals. With this purpose, the study analyzed the long-term population trend of four different species of marine mammals, geographically placed in distant MPAs. In addition, matching biophysical and governance indicators were identified in o...
The Ocean is the largest ecosystem on the planet, supporting millions of people's livelihood. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key to guarantee Ocean resilience. About 62 % of the Ocean surface coincide with areas 200 miles from coastlines, called areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ). However, MPAs in ABNJ are only 1,18 % of the high seas. St...
Globally, whale watching (WW) is the greatest economic activity that is based on cetaceans, and in mainland Spain the town of Tarifa (Strait of Gibraltar) is the main WW port. Despite it being such an economically relevant sector, little is being done to monitor and guarantee its sustainability. Dedicated questionnaires were designed and delivered...
Estuarine degradation is a major concern worldwide, and is rapidly increasing due to anthropogenic pressures. The Mediterranean Guadiaro estuary, located in San Roque (Cadiz, Spain), is an example of a highly modified estuary, showing severe negative effects of eutrophication episodes and beach erosion. The migration of its river mouth sand spit ca...
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is dealt at a national level, but generally it includes ecological, physical processes and administrative jurisdictions of multiple countries. The transboundary cooperation on MSP is a complex challenge, that could be better addressed with a participatory process, to achieve coherent planning processes in shared marine...
Legal-administrative borders in the marine environment rarely coincide with the boundaries of marine ecosystems and their ecological processes. Thus, cooperation in the processes of marine spatial planning (MSP) across borders is essential to apply an ecosystem-based approach. This research analyzes the usefulness of the work flow undertaken to pro...
Numerous human activities take place in the marine area of the Gulf of Cádiz, making it necessary to organize space through their spatial and temporal distribution. With the aim of combining the long-term conservation of marine biodiversity and the development of an economic activity that makes it possible to maintain over time the capacity of the...
Remote sensing techniques are becoming a key tool for coastal mapping in terms of resolution, effectiveness and cost reduction. Sentinel-2A/B twin satellites are part of the free and open policy programme available since 2015, but atmospheric corrections or cloud cover are still challenges to face. In order to process this data, cloud computing pla...
The 2050 target of the European Union to decarbonize the economy by 80–90% will undoubtedly see marine renewable energies playing a key role. The deployment of offshore facilities within the framework of Blue Growth creates tension as competition for other uses of the sea intensifies as economic exploitation of marine resources increases. Marine sp...
A total amount of 16,123 beach litter items, appertaining to 120 litter groups, was identified at 40 bathing areas along the coast of Cádiz, Spain. Selected areas covered remote (5), rural (11), village (13) and urban (11) sites with different morphodynamic states. The observer recorded litter data along 100 m (longshore) coastal sectors, cross-sho...
Resumen Las zonas costeras de España se consideran áreas de especial relevancia para la población y su economía. Esto se debe a que la población urbana se asienta y desarrolla sus actividades económicas de forma cada vez más evidente sobre la zona costera. En 2015, los núcleos urbanos de estas áreas albergaban casi a la mitad de la población del pa...
Educational outreach can be achieved through responsible Whale Watching (WW). Here, we
investigate the factors affecting customers’ satisfaction on WW experience in the Strait of Gibraltar Important Marine Mammal Area. Between July and September 2017 and 2018, guides of the WW company TURMARES Tarifa submitted 398 questionnaires to customers random...
The 2050 target of the European Union to decarbonize the economy by 80-90 % will undoubtedly see marine 9 renewable energies playing a key role. The deployment of offshore facilities within the framework of Blue 10 Growth creates tension as competition for other uses of the sea intensifies as economic exploitation of marine 11 resources increases....
Touristic whale watching (WW) is the most profitable activity based on cetaceans worldwide. In Spain, WW is concentrated in the south where Tarifa (Strait of Gibraltar) is the main departure port with four operators.
Using the vessels of the WW operator “TURMARES Tarifa”, 274 semi-structured questionnaires were randomly distributed to and compiled...
First book dedicated to Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction gathering a diverse crowd of authors from various backgrounds and professions. This book was conceived as a guide book for delegations before the start of the negotiations. It highlights many issues including governance, sustainable management, conservation on the seabed, conservatio...
Coastal regions have long demonstrated growing demographic concentration. This process is of great importance in Spanish coastal zones, where cities develop the majority of economic activities. Moreover, the coastal zone is the region where vulnerable coastal ecosystems are located. This research aims to assess the influence of coastal urban areas...
The Algeciras Bay hosts several species of cetaceans and it therefore represents a conservation hotspot, along with being a particularly important geopolitical and economic area. Here we analysed Mysticete occurrence data with the aim to inform management and conservation in the Bay area. Using different platforms of opportunity belonging to whale...
Se trata de la formulación de la Estrategia de GIZC de la laguna costera salada más grande del suroeste europeo. Se trata de un escenario de múltiples conflictos y transferencia de costes, de desencuentro institucional, y al mismo tiempo, de gran urgencia. En positivo destacaron los técnicos de la Administración (comprometidos) y el enorme interés...
La gestión integrada de las áreas costero-marinas es un asunto en extremo complejo, y por ello, para su aprendizaje, es conveniente diseñar una estrategia docente basada en la combinación de diferentes métodos. El trabajo que se presenta resulta de la experiencia desarrollada mediante la organización de un curso de doctorado en el marco de la Escue...
El presente capítulo tiene dos objetivos fundamentales. Por una parte, analizar el tratamiento que los principales instrumentos sobre cambio climático elaborados en España y Andalucía dan a la adaptación a dicho fenómeno en las zonas costeras. Por otra, a partir de dicho análisis, comprobar si efectivamente para la administración española y andaluz...
El Reino Unido ha dedicado más de diez años al desarrollo de un sistema de gestión cuyo diseño comenzó por la elaboración, a partir de la Ley " Marine and Coastal Access Act " , de una política marítima propia y una organización específica para la gestión del medio marino. Previamente a la elaboración del nuevo sistema de gestión, el gobierno britá...
AVEC LA PARTICIPATION DE : ISABELLE AUTISSIER n ÉRIC BARRAULT n PATRICK BOISSIER n CHRISTIAN BUCHET n ROBERT CALCAGNO n ROBBERT CASIER n ALAIN COLDEFY n EMMANUEL DESCLÈVES n FANNY DOUVERE n HUGUES EUDELINE n JEAN-LOUIS FILLON n PHILIPPE FOLLIOT n JAVIER GARCÍA ONETTI n JAVIER GARCÍA SANABRIA n GÉRARD GRIGNON n FRANÇOIS LAFOND n YVES LAGANE n XAVIER...
Source de toute vie, espaces d'une extraordinaire beauté et d'une grande diversité, nos mers et nos océans ont, de tout temps, bercé nos croyances et éveillé nos rêves d'aventures les plus fous....L'incroyable developpement des activités humaines, déclenché par les révolutions industrielles successives et accéléré par la mondialisation économique,...
The Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) is a technical-scientific discipline that has been internationally recognized as the most appropriate to address the sustainable management of coastal and marine areas [1]. Then it is convenient to use the inertia and experience generated by this discipline that has already defined a suitable framework...
Copyright: © 2014 Javier GS. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Editorial
Recognized relationships between land and sea environment are frecuently n...
Marine areas cannot be understood from the analysis of its environmental units; their interactions provide the system an overall dynamic. Besides technological advances are recently allowing new uses and activities that need to be well-managed. Then, a public management system that can learn from its own experience and adapt to changes as they aris...
Muchos países han comenzado a desarrollar iniciativas para gestionar su territorio marítimo. Las Naciones Unidas decidieron en 2006 realizar un esfuerzo para orientar la gestión de los espacios marinos que llevó a la publicación en 2009 de una guía para la elaboración de la “Planificación Espacial Marina (PEM)”. Quedan algunas cuestiones por resolv...
Los ecosistemas marinos y costeros se caracterizan por figurar entre los más productivos
del mundo, por su elevado dinamismo y por encontrarse fuertemente conectados entre sí
por una extensa red de corrientes superficiales y profundas. Resulta por tanto muy difícil
prever los efectos que sobre el medio marino pueda ocasionar un determinado vecto...
No parece que haya duda respecto al valor ambiental de las áreas litorales españolas. Entre otras razones porque se trata de una de las zonas más relevantes de transición entre ecosistemas (ecotono) que se desarrollan en las Zonas Templadas. Ello se traduce en la existencia de diversos ecosistemas que proporcionan servicios de gran trascendencia pa...
En España, la gran mayoría de las competencias sobre gestión costera han sido transferidas a las diez Comunidades Autónomas litorales. Resulta fundamental, por tanto, su papel en la gestión del litoral español. Esta publicación cubre un vacío bibliográfico abarcando el primer análisis de la gestión integrada de las áreas litorales que se hace en Es...
Las tendencias demográficas, de desarrollo de actividades y de infraestructuras, junto con los nuevos riesgos asociados al cambio climático plantean, especialmente en las zonas costeras, un gran reto para su desarrollo seguro y sostenible. De ahí la necesidad de contribuir a la generación de bases institucionales y de política pública específicas p...
El contenido del libro se centra en los diagnósticos, de escala nacional, que ofrece el manejo costero de cada país. Para lograr dicho objetivo se adopta un esquema o modelo de análisis decidido y compartido por todos los miembros de la red. Dos partes bien diferenciadas permiten el desarrollo de este trabajo. Una primera se refiere al contexto en...
This report pretends to present an initiative of collaboration between the University of Cadiz and the Spanish Coastal Zone Main Agency of the Ministry of Environment, on the implementation of an Integrated Coastal Zones Management model (ICZM) in Cadiz seashore. The main objective of the agreement is to create a meeting and approaching space for b...
Questions
Question (1)
From my point of view, Marine Spatial Planning (Ehler y Douvere, 2009) is a similar tool to land planning. In this sense, we have to choose the approach and the scope in which this tool should be used. I can easily distinguish two main different scopes for MSP. The first one is "coastal waters" (usually defined up to 12 nautical miles, or as was done by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment up to 50 meter of depth) and the second the open ocean. In any case, MSP can be a great tool for marine management when there is a necessity, but in coastal waters (where there is a strong connectivity between land and sea,) MSP should be developed under the approach of ICZM. Is there any activity taking place in coastal waters that don´t need related infrastructures or activities on land? Of course there is a strong ecological connection between land and sea, but also there is a key connection between the marine activities and coastal societies and economies. The only disconnection can be the management framework we use to manage this land-sea area. I think this is a good issue for discussion, thanks in advance for your inputs...
