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Assessing the natural capital value of Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Italian seas by integrating Habitat Suitability and Environmental Accounting Models
ICES Journal of Marine Science
Ecological systems can be regarded as natural capital that yields ecosystem services vital for human well-being. The provision of these services strictly depends on the protection of natural capital stocks...
Assessing the Balance Between Nature and People in the European Seas: Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic
World Wildlife Fund
Taking a sustainable and ecosystem-based approach (EBA) to planning and managing the use of the world’s ocean has long resided at the core of WWF’s mission. This approach is critical...
Narrowing the gap between marine spatial planning aspirations and realities
ICES Journal of marine science
Many coastal nations have embraced marine spatial planning (MSP) as a solution to maintaining ecological integrity of marine environments, while ensuring continued provisioning of economic, social, and cultural benefits. However...
Regulatory aspects related to MSFD and compatibility with MSPD of MOI
The Blue Growth Farm
This report is an output of Task 8.2 (WP8) of the Blue Growth Farm (BGF) contract [AD1]. The BGF project responds to the EU H2020 call for enabling technologies for...
Development of multi-use platforms at sea: Barriers to realising Blue Growth
Ocean engineering, 2017
The recent H2020 Blue Growth projects MARIBE and MUSES investigated the potential of a variety of different combinations of economic activities in co-location or integrated in multi-use platforms. Both projects...
What Participation Means in Marine Spatial Planning Systems? Lessons from the French Case
Planning Practice & Research
There is already a substantial body of literature examining the participation issues in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP). This paper addresses these issues in the French MSP process. Using qualitative materials...
Building planning spaces for the integration of coastal and maritime cultural heritage in local and regional spatial development
Maritime Studies (2022)
Coastal and maritime cultural heritage (CMCH) is a relative newcomer on spatial development policy agendas and in spatial planning activities. Cultural heritage (CH) may assist in reconstructing place narratives and...
“Please let me visit”: Management options for marine ecosystems in a Mediterranean Marine Protected Area
Journal for Nature Conservation - Volume 67
Designation of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a means to support conservation of marine ecosystems is expected to depend on local communities and stakeholder’ participation and support. This paper presents...
Co-existence in practice: a collaborative study of the effects of the Westermost Rough offshore wind development on the size distribution and catch rates of a commercially important lobster (Homarus gammarus) population
ICES Journal of Marine Science
The global expansion of offshore windfarms (OWF), whilst seen as a tool to combat climate change, can often be of concern to fishing communities already challenged by spatial restrictions. Static...
Exploring fishing tourism sustainability in North-Eastern Mediterranean waters, through a stochastic modelling analysis: An opportunity for the few or a viable option for coastal communities?
Ocean & Coastal Management - Volume 221
Many agencies and organisations have recently proposed fishing tourism as a promising way to support fishers and fishing communities around the world. The present research paper explores the benefits from...
Combining wind power and farmed fish: Coastal community perceptions of multi-use offshore renewable energy installations in Europe
Energy research and social science
There is increasing competition for space in coastal seas as new industrial sectors, such as Marine Renewable Energy (MRE) and Aquaculture, seek to expand. Multi-Use - involving sharing of space...
Marine spatial plans focusing on biodiversity conservation: The case of the Aegean Sea
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
- The expansion and intensification of marine uses have severe cumulative impacts on marine ecosystems and human well-being, unless they are properly managed with an ecosystem-based management approach.
- A systematic conservation...