Location
Venice, Italy
An expert roundtable on cumulative impact tools was organised on 18 January in Venice, Italy, bringing together subject experts and tool developers to discuss development of these tools as they relate to MSP. Cumulative impact tools are of particular interest for implementing the ‚ecosystem based approach‘ in MSP, in accordance with the EU MSP Directive. The roundtable summary report, agenda and presentations are available for download via the links below
NEW - Roundtable Summary Report
Agenda
ESAtDOR, Med-IAMER, Panacea - Experiences from Europe and the Mediterranean
Lena Bergstrom - Cumulative Impact work for State of the Baltic Sea Report and others
JPI Oceans - Future collaboration in research on cumulative effects of human activities
Rob Gerits - International cooperation between North Seas countries on Marine Spatial Planning & Cumulative Effect Assessment
European Environment Agency - Connecting MSP into the work of EEA Cumulative impacts tools development
CNR ISMAR & IUAV University - Cumulative Impact Assessment tool developed during ADRIPLAN project
SWAM - Symphony Tool - a cumulative assessment tool in Swedish Marine Spatial Planning
SIMCelt - Maritime Spatial Planning: Transboundary Cooperation in the Celtic Seas Cumulative Effects Assessment and Marine Spatial Planning
University of Tartu (Estonia) - Assessing impacts of multiple human uses on nature values: separate and synergistic effects: the Estonian MSP perspective
Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal) - Cumulative Impact Tools: the Portuguese Case Studies
Bonus BASMATI Project: Work on Cumulative Impact Assessment
PAP-RAC - Using EcAp/IMAP indicators for MSP: Experience from Montenegro
Plasmar Project - Setting the bases for Sustainable Maritime Spatial Planning in Macaronesia
Plan4Blue - Plan4Blue project work on cumulative impacts
WWF's interests in cumulative impact assessments for MSP