Operationalisation of an ecosystem services approach for improving integration in maritime spatial planning

Abstract

Aurelija Armoskaite received her B.A in Sociology from the University of Warwick in 2015. Whilst at Warwick, Aurelija spent a year abroad on the Erasmus programme studying at the University of Helsinki, where she first took a course in maritime spatial planning. In 2018, she received her MSc in Marine planning and management from the University of Liverpool. In her MSc thesis, Aurelija investigated the environmental advantages of in-situ decommissioning of offshore oil platforms in the North Sea, the exclusive economic zone of the United Kingdom. She was then employed by the Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology as a research assistant to work on projects focused on supporting the marine planning and protected area designation process in Latvia.