This file contains a Repository of best practices and lessons learnt from the project. It presents the Valuable Practices and the New Actions identified by the project in the MSP...

Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) emerged worldwide as an important policy tool for planning the different uses of Seas and Oceans efficiently, in order to achieve both a sustainable development of...

In Malta, the Planning Authority (PA) is the Competent Authority for the MSP Directive and as partner to the MSP-MED project is focused on specific aspects concerning governance in support...

In Italy, as included in the art. 24 and 26 of National guidelines (Decree of the President of the Ministers Council, 1/12/2017) each plan must include a monitoring and control...

Ecological analyses are aimed at characterising the complexity of the structure of natural objects, yet their heterogeneity is hardly described by the Euclidean concepts. For such a purpose, fractal geometry...

This report is a deliverable from the MSP-MED project. It presents the results of the workshop "Development vision, objectives and concept for Koper Bay". The purpose of preparing the vision, goals...

The aim of this report is the creation of comparison factsheets of the national MSP plans from the MSPMED partner countries in order to detect common points and principal differences...

This document is the technical report of the workshop led by MSP-MED which topic was "From data to knowledge. Supporting adaptive management in MSP". The main goal of this workshop...

This report is a deliverable from the MSP-MED project. It presents the results of the workshop “Ecosystem-Based Maritime Spatial Planning in the Mediterranean which focuses on a set of themes...

The need for alternative energy systems like offshore wind power to move towards the Green Deal objectives is undeniable. However, it is also increasingly clear that biodiversity loss and climate...

Sound is a dominant feature of the underwater marine environment because of natural (biological sources, underwater earthquakes, wind) and human-made (anthropogenic) sound sources. Underwater noise anthropogenic sources are commonly related...

Aquaculture represents an important source of food and it plays an important role in terms of contribution to economic development. Offshore farming offers considerable advantages, especially in terms of production...