Marine Spatial Planning Activities

Knowledge-based Sustainable Knowledge-based Sustainable Management for Europe’s SeasManagement for Europe’s SeasKnowSeas

Tim O’HigginsTim O’Higgins

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 226675

Edinburgh, 1Edinburgh, 1stst September 2011 September 2011

A comprehensive scientific knowledge base and practical guidance for the application of the Ecosystem Approach to the sustainable development of Europe’s regional seas.

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Overall objective

Overall project designOverall project design

Terrestrial Local inshore

National EEZ

Transboundary

Regional Seas

EU Wide Global

Within one year

Within 1 political

term (5 yrs)

Before 2020

(Target for GEnS)

By 2050

EEZ MSFD WFD

WP3 - Causes and Consequences of WP3 - Causes and Consequences of Ecosystem ChangeEcosystem Change

FR

BE

NL2

NL1

GM

UK1

UK2

Channel

AtmDep

Atlantic

Algae

P

N

C

N

NH4-N

NO3-N

PPO4-P

Detritus

PNC

settlingsettling

respiration

photosynthesis

Nutrient

mineralisation

mineralisation

metabolism

mortality

DO

production

consumption

reaeration

Detritus in SedimentC N P Si

Si

Si

N2 denitrification

mineralisation & nitrification

autolysis

Si

consumption

nitrification

Grazers

grazing

grazing

oxygen consumption

biodeposition

AIP adsorption

MicrophytobenthosC N P Si

AIP in sediment

settling

mortality

photosynthesis

The Delft3D-GEM grid showing the river inputs (blue), Channel inputs (purple) and atmospheric inputs (red).

•Ecopath

•Bayesian Belief Networks (BBNs)

•Deterministic

NW Black Sea conceptual model

NW Black Sea BBN

ELME Scenarios

Bas

elin

e S

cen

ari

o

Alternative Scenarios

Nat

ion

al E

nte

rpri

se

Lo

cal R

esp

on

sib

ility

Wo

rld

Mar

kets

Glo

bal

Co

mm

un

ity

ST

AT

ES

Cystoseira habitat

Zostera habitat

Phyllophora habitat

Pelagic predator stocks

Small pelagic stocks

Scenario outcomes

BBNsBBNs

WP4 - Analysis of Costs and WP4 - Analysis of Costs and BenefitsBenefits

Spatially explicit Fishing catches and values (€)

Year

ICES box

Country

Species

FISHERIES

ECONOMICS

DATABASE

Fisheries subsidy data by

NUTS LEVEL 3

FISHERIES DEPENDECY RATIO

FISHERIES EMPLOYMENT RATIO

FISHING VALUES

By Gear type based on VMS data

UK Only

COnflict REsolution (CORE) Tool

GIS-Seas Tool

Enhancing Stakeholder CApacity (ESCA) Tool

DEcision MAking (DEMA) Tool

WP6 - Assessment ToolboxWP6 - Assessment Toolbox

COnflict Resolution (CORE) Tool

Mull of Kintyre tidal energy study

Tidal devices

Value maps on the Touch Table

Touch table

Valuation tool - Fisheries

Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Workshop

GeoNetworkGeoNetwork

http://gis.socib.es/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

http://gis.socib.es/esicostes/

GeoServerGeoServer

http://gis.socib.es/geoserver/web/?wicket:bookmarkablePage=:org.geoserver.web.demo.MapPreviewPage

How KnowSeas can help marine How KnowSeas can help marine management: an illustrationmanagement: an illustration

BALTIC SEABALTIC SEA

GULF OF FINLANDGULF OF FINLANDMINGULAY REEFMINGULAY REEF

CAMPBELLTOWN TIDAL ENERGY

EUTROPHICATION SOUTHERN NORTH SEA

NORTHERN ADRIATIC NORTHERN ADRIATIC TOP PREDATORSTOP PREDATORS

GULF OF LIONSGULF OF LIONS

DOGGER BANK WIND DOGGER BANK WIND FARMS FISHERIESFARMS FISHERIES

EUTROPHICATION EUTROPHICATION FISHERIES NW SHELFFISHERIES NW SHELF

MEDITERRANEAN MEDITERRANEAN MERCURY/INVASIVESMERCURY/INVASIVES

RAPANA MANAGEMENT RAPANA MANAGEMENT DILEMMADILEMMA