Best practice and scientific publications

This set of practical information presents a regional, systematic, transparent and ecologically based approach for identifying MPAs in the Baltic Sea.

This set of practical information introduces blue corridors and provides some examples and recommendations on how to work with Blue Corridors in practical marine spatial planning.

This report summaries the work related to marine landscape and habitat mapping published in 17 independent BALANCE Interim Reports. The BALANCE mapping efforts has operated at two scales:

1) the...

This guide shows which geo-data are available and indicates their characteristics as well as limitations. One finding was that there are more geodata available for marine areas than expected. Mostly...

This is an approach originally designed to improve conservation management which will be tested for MSP in transboundary cases.

The Bow-tie approach comes from a risk assessment background. It will be transferred to MSP with regard to evaluating exisitng legislation and policies (showing gaps and duplications) and in drawing...

The governance baselines approach originally visualises "how the govenrance system in a specific place has responded, or failed to respond the trajectory of ecosystem change [...]. In BALTSPACE, this approach...

This practice illustrates the fact that information gaps are different and each gap needs different measures in order to cope with the lack of necessary information while preparing maritime spatial...