Best practice and scientific publications

1. 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.
2. A systematic conservation...

This report is developed within the framework of the MARSPLAN-BS-II project that supports coherent, cross-sectoral Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) in Bulgaria and Romania, under the framework of MSP Directive 2014/89/EU...

In the middle of the North Atlantic is the Azores, an archipelago of nine islands. Despite their small size, the surrounding maritime space of the islands accounts for almost 1...

Integrative and spatialized tools for studying the effects of a wide variety of ecosystem drivers are needed to implement ecosystem-based management and marine spatial planning. We developed a tool for...

Recreational boating is a worldwide leisure activity playing an important role in the context of coastal economy but also causing significant damage on the environment, above all in the absence...

The entire contemporary economic and social development is under the sign of the evolutions in the sphere of services, which constitute a crucial component of the global economy. The Romanian...

This article employs a multi-disciplinary planning and political science perspective to examine transboundary marine spatial planning (TMSP) in European sea basins through a collaborative governance and planning framework. The article...

Digitalization is gaining increasing attention in Higher Education (HE). The integration of digital tools into instructional settings is particularly challenging, However, it offers many opportunities to improve the learning process...

The Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) for continental Portugal was approved in December 2019 and has established a novel framework for those players that carry out maritime activities. In light of...

This paper was developed within the context of the Capacity4MSP project that aims to create a practically oriented and interactive collaboration platform for MSP stakeholders, decision- and policy makers that...

In coastal and marine environments, numerous activities take place which might result in two types of conflicts: the user-user conflicts and the user-environment ones. Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is a...

The developments of offshore wind farms can place increased pressures on conflicting marine users, particularly in already crowded waterways. Risk analysis of potential hazard scenarios are conducted by developers and...