This webinar links to EMB Position Paper No. 27 'Building Coastal Resilience in Europe'
Froukje Maria Platjouw is a legal scholar with expertise in EU law, environmental law, and ocean governance, and coordinated the CrossGov project. One of the key outputs of the CrossGov is the Policy Coherence Handbook, a practical guide to assess and understand policy coherence. At the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA), where she now works as a Research Manager and Senior Researcher, she has led and contributed to numerous research projects predominantly related to coastal and marine governance in Europe. Key outputs have been the publication of two books: ‘Environmental Law and the Ecosystem Approach - Maintaining Ecological Integrity through Consistency in Law’ (Routledge 2016), and ‘The Environmental Rule of Law for Oceans – Designing Legal Solutions’ (ed. with A. Pozdnakova, Cambridge University Press 2023).
Ben Boteler is a Senior Research Associate at the Research Institute for Sustainability (RIFS) at GFZ. His research focuses on how innovative governance strategies can help to underpin transformative action towards overcoming global challenges such as climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. His current research focuses on the implementation and performance of EU marine policies to reach the goals set out in the EU Green Deal. From 2018 to 2022, he was the co-lead of the STRONG High Seas project, a five-year project that aimed to facilitate the development of comprehensive, cross-sectoral, approaches for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in the high seas.
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