Best practice and scientific publications

Bokakotorska Bay is one of the most vulnerable zones of the Montenegrin marine area. Its coastal and marine area is affected by strong human pressure. A pilot project was implemented...

In the Mediterranean Sea socio-economic drivers may accelerate the process of Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) declarations. Despite the challenges, the EEZ declarations may provide important opportunities for leveraging change to...

A big amount of data about the ecological and socio-economic features of the Aegean Sea was collected by the MARISCA project through a wide range of sources, in order to...

In the framework of ECOAST Project the DISPLACE fish and fishery model was applied to the Northern Adriatic Sea, an area characterized by intense and conflicting fishing activities, calling for...

The report synthesises availble information on shipping in the Baltic Sea. Particular attention is paid to (future) developments that should be taken into account by MSP.

Starting from an extensive review of several experiences of spatial planning in marine waters across the world assisting the aquaculture development, the article presents a framing procedure to properly design...

SDIMED is a web geoportal developed by the OTREMED project funded by the EU MED Programme, contributing to the general objective of enhancing the competiveness of the Mediterranean region. It focuses...

After a complex phase of data collection, validation (including stakeholder consultation) and integration, the Med-IAMER project identified a wide number of indicators used to display spatial information about socioeconomic drivers...

This group acts as a coordinating body within the Polish government in relation to use and conservation of marine resources and ecosystem services as well as the sea-related abiotic services. It...

This practice shows how safety distances can be calculated between areas used for shipping and offshore wind farms.

AIS data help with understanding where are important areas for navigation and fishing. However, extracting routes from AIS data sets is generally not easy, because of the quantity of data that needs...