Following the success of the Rabat workshop last March, two new scenario-building exercises using the Bayesian Belief Network (BBN) decision support tool are planned in the coming months.

With the assistance of the University of Nottingham, the University of Balamand in Lebanon and MEDCOAST (the Mediterranean Coastal Foundation) in Turkey, the two workshops will be organized with local stakeholders to analyse possible future scenarios for the Lebanese and Turkish coasts and to facilitate dialogue and an exchange of views among the stakeholders.

The meetings are scheduled on 16 and 17 September 2013 for the North Coastal Zone in Lebanon, and 5 November 2013 for the Turkish CASE site at Köyceğiz-Dalyan Special Environmental Protection Area.

For more information: Manal Nader,(Lebanon) ; Erdal Özhan (Turkey)