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Synthesis Map of Socio-Economic issues at sea in French Guiana
MSP-OR Advancing Maritime Spatial Planning in Outermost Regions
To facilitate MSP process and public debate in French Guiana, the MSP-OR project elaborated two maps compiling socio--cultural and environmental stakes and issues inherent to the French Guiana Sea basin...
Report on needs, barriers and enablers for MSP and Capacity Building
MSP-OR Advancing Maritime Spatial Planning in Outermost Regions
In this report some of the barriers and enablers in the existing platforms approaching Sea/Ocean themes are assessed and some criteria used to analyse each one is developed. The input...
D9 Underwater noise studies in the Gulf of Lions region
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...
Sociocultural Dimension of Land–Sea Interactions in Maritime Spatial Planning: Three Case Studies in the Baltic Sea Region
Frontiers of Maritime Spatial Planning and Management
Spatial planning faces challenges in addressing interactions between land and sea. This paper elaborates on land–sea interfaces, which can integrate certain socio-cultural values and related tensions into maritime spatial planning...
Geospatial analysis for fish farming across Tyrrhenian coast (Tuscany, central Italy)
Ocean & Coastal Management
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...
Land and sea: Addressing the challenges facing inter-regional ecosystems in developing a sustainable bioeconomy
EFB Bioeconomy Journal
Forest, ocean and industrial ecosystems are all key aspects of the global bioeconomy. However, finding ways to effectively utilize resources for global benefits while protecting our natural ecosystems is critical...
Bright spots as climate-smart marine spatial planning tools for conservation and blue growth
Global Change Biology
Marine spatial planning that addresses ocean climate-driven change (‘climate-smart MSP’ is a global aspiration to support economic growth, food security and ecosystem sustainability. Ocean climate change (‘CC’) modelling may become...
A Review of Sustainability Concepts in Marine Spatial Planning and the Potential to Supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goal 14
Frontiers in Marine Science
Ecosystems all over the world are under increasing pressure from human uses. The UN Sustainable Development Goal 14 (UN SDG 14) seeks to ensure sustainability below water by 2020; however...
Ecosystem Services for Supporting Coastal and Marine Resources Management, an Example from the Adriatic Sea (Central Mediterranean Sea)
Ecosystem Services (ESs) assessment is increasingly being considered as the constitutive metric to embrace the social, ecological, and economic spheres. Spatially explicit ES assessments can integrate and standardize different types...
Offshore Multi-Use Setting: introducing integrative assessment modelling to alleviate uncertainty of developing Seaweed Aquaculture inside Wind Farms
The offshore multi-use setting is a concept that reduces spatial competition in the marine economy. Seaweed Aquaculture inside Wind Farms has been suggested as a multi-use setting design, however, the...
Development of a webGIS Application to Assess Conflicting Activities in the Framework of Marine Spatial Planning
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Marine spatial planning (MSP) has been established as the appropriate policy framework to study and resolve conflicts that arise among various activities. A pre-requisite for the successful implementation of MSP...
Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning
Marine Policy, Volume 143
As marine spatial planning (MSP) continues to gain global prominence as an approach to ocean governance, planners and other stakeholders are eager to evaluate its social and ecological outcomes and...