Development of monitoring and assessment guidelines to detect and mitigate impacts of tourism on the OUV of the trilateral Wadden Sea
2024 – 2025 – Project commissioned by the Common Wadden Sea Secretariat
This project is implemented by a trilateral project consortium (Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark), consisting of the Centre of Sustainable Tourism (ZENAT), Susmetro and the University of Copenhagen, combining EU, federal and national project expertise in the fields of tourism, nature conservation and biodiversity as well as in the area of data collection and analysis.
The main objective and the key deliverable of this project is the development of guidelines for the trilateral monitoring and assessment of tourism impacts on the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the trilateral Wadden Sea, including methodological approaches to identify, monitor, analyse, and quantify impacts of tourism, based largely on existing data, with the aim to provide adequate information for mitigating negative impacts.
Amrum Island (Germany), Wadden Sea
Our approach for the implementation of the project is based on the six tasks and five deliverables specified in the invitation to tender. In principle, the course of action can be divided into three phases as illustrated in the figure below: Screening of data, evaluation/validation of data with regard to their applicability for management and mitigation of tourism impacts and the development of respective recommendations.
Project phases:
- Data screening
- Evaluation
- Recommendations
For more information, contact Dirk Wascher (Susmetro), Heike Dickhut (ZENAT), Berit Kaae (University of Copenhagen)
