PESCARES Italia Srl is a firm of international environmental consultants with 40 years’ experience in environmental and natural resource management and is associated with experts who have worked in all parts of the world. PESCARES provides consulting services to leading businesses, governments and institutions, helping to design and develop effective and tailor-made services in support of its clients and their stakeholders’ objectives and needs. The name “PESCARES” stands for responsible fisheries (Pesca Responsabile in Italian), and reflects the company’s commitment to achieving a sustainable and more responsible use of coastal and marine environmental resources. PESCARES multidisciplinary background, ranging from engineers, environmental experts, economists and social scientists provides for a holistic approach to tackle climate change, environmental protection of coast zones, sustainable economic development, etc.
We cooperate as well with academic and research partners to provide overall solutions to the clients. Ecosystems degradation, coastal erosion, climate change, overfishing, maritime activities and the general need for sustainable development and blue growth, bringing essential wealth and employment opportunities to local populations, have been addressed and managed in more than one occasion within PESCARES project activities worldwide. Therefore, PESCARES can offer a deep understanding of the mechanisms regulating environmental process in marine, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems and the way human’s activities can affect their well-being. PESCARES has worked extensively with local governments and institutions, the private sector and local communities towards the environmental sustainability based on blue, green and circular economy. PESCARES offers extensive experience in project management worldwide and has a track record participating in multi-country projects and FWCs for the European Commission (DG NEAR, DG MARE, DG ENV, DEVCO, EASME, etc.)
PESCARES key strength comes from its strong knowledge institutional development and capacity building, cost-benefit analysis and stakeholder’s engagement.
read more ...PESCARES specific strengths of our approach:
- Updated knowledge on sustainability challenges, sustainable production and consumption, sustainable development and circular economy,
- Analysis of cost-benefits, assessments of the economic, social and environmental impacts,
- Adviser to international trade and regional integration, key sectors regarding impacts on oceans and maritime activities,
- Proven experiences in climate change issues, both on mitigation (renewable energy, regulation) and adaptation (applied to various domains including biological diversity, marine and coastal protected areas, fishing, tourism),
- Holistic approach specifically to the “continuum” ocean-coast-terrestrial territory, taking into consideration a global analysis of socioeconomic activities and their affects and impacts on water resources, watershed management and finally consequences for seas and oceans,
- Deep experience on complex programme coordination, in particular to link scientific knowledge and decision-making processes,
- Involved in multiple stakeholder context, developing participatory approaches, in charge of consultations and processes to build common visions, conflict regulation and implementation of shared decisions,
- Particular attention paid to gender issues, small social groups marginalized, in order to take care of its voice considering that who is not part of the solution may be part of the problem,
- Familiar with innovative governance, moderation of high level dialogue, participation to international UN negotiations on Climate Change, Biological Diversity and Sustainable Development Goals,
- High capacity to analysis and synthesis, in order to capitalize experiences, practices and to produce notes and articles to share,
- Integrated Coastal Zone Management
- Maritime Spatial Planning
- Response to climate change pressures in coastal ecosystems
- Monitoring, analysis and management of marine & coastal resources
- Marine protected areas (MPAs) establishment and management
- Community-based environmental management
- Development of strategies for preserving biodiversity at the land/water interface
- Environmental/Maritime policy development and planning
- Environmental Impact Assessment
- Aquatic ecosystems studies / Aquaculture
- Socio-economic analysis & evaluation on environmental aspects