Supporting coherent, connected, and equivalent management across national and international boundaries.
IECS works extensively on cross‑border marine governance, ensuring that policies, assessments, and management measures align across jurisdictions.
Core Expertise
- Connectivity, coherence, and equivalence typology
- Transboundary marine spatial planning
- Governance mapping (horrendograms and organograms)
- Policy harmonisation and reporting alignment
- International collaboration and capacity building
Our governance expertise underpins projects such as MarinePlan, MARBEFES, and GES4SEAS, and European COST initiatives, eg SEA-UNICORN, in helping to build integrated management frameworks across European and global marine regions.
Related Expertise
Ecosystem Services & Societal Goods and Benefits
Environmental Assessment & Risk Management
Spatial Analysis, Modelling & Remote Sensing
Social Ecological Systems & Human Dimensions
Need support with marine policy, governance or cross‑border management? IECS provides expertise in coherence, connectivity, equivalence and governance analysis across national and regional seas.