Using best expert judgement to harmonise marine environmental status assessment and maritime spatial planning

Elliott, Michael; Boyes, Suzanne J.; Barnard, Stephen; Borja, Ángel

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2018.05.029

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“…Socioeconomic growth in key industry sectors ("blue growth") including maritime and coastal tourism present challenges to achieving GES. Globally, blue growth may prioritise economic potential over environmental protection (Elliott et al, 2018). Publicly accessible media productions, such as the BBC's Blue Planet II, help to bridge the scientific community to wider society to coalesce abstract problems and specific solutions (Pahl et al, 2017).…”

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Baseline Assessment of Marine Litter and Microplastic Ingestion by Cold-Water Coral Reef Benthos at the East Mingulay Marine Protected Area (Sea of the Hebrides, Western Scotland)

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The extent of marine litter and microplastic occurrence across ocean biomes and species remains poorly characterised, particularly in remote deep-water ecosystems. The present study in the East Mingulay Special Area of Conservation (a Marine Protected Area in the Sea of the Hebrides, western Scotland) used historic surveys and benthic samples to obtain baseline levels of anthropogenic debris and microparticle ingestion. Most debris identified in the MPA was fisheries-related. A total of 11% of benthic macrofauna from Mingulay Reef Area 1 and Banana Reef had ingested microplastics, with no statistically significant effect of feeding guild, station, or reef, on ingestion rates. However, the ingestion rate was highest at a station located in a topographic hollow along a gentle sloping area with strong variable ocean currents where fine-scale interactions between bathymetry and hydrography may have helped trap and focus microparticles. Raman spectroscopy of microparticles revealed several types of polymers being ingested, tentatively identified as polypropylene (PP), polyurethane (PU), polystyrene (PS), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Besides establishing a baseline assessment of marine litter and microparticles in a deep-water setting, the approach demonstrates the utility of using historic data and specimens collected for other purposes to expand the geographic and ecosystem coverage for larger more regional-scale and even basin-wide assessments such as those needed to inform Good Environmental Status in European waters, as called for by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

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Baseline Assessment of Marine Litter and Microplastic Ingestion by Cold-Water Coral Reef Benthos at the East Mingulay Marine Protected Area (Sea of the Hebrides, Western Scotland)

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“…However, this unchecked growth in Drivers can lead to levels of Activities and Pressures which exceed the carrying and assimilative capacities of a particular system or even of the global system (Rockstrom et al 2009) resulting in depletion of resources and damage to the natural system. This exceedance then requires measures which aim to minimise conflicts and partition that marine space in order to deliver the human and protect the natural aspects (Elliott et al 2018).…”

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From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’

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Ecosystem-Based Management, Ecosystem Services and Aquatic Biodiversity

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The complexity of interactions and feedbacks between human activities and ecosystems can make the analysis of such social-ecological systems intractable. In order to provide a common means to understand and analyse the links between social and ecological process within these systems, a range of analytical frameworks have been developed and adopted. Following decades of practical experience in implementation, the Driver Pressure State Impact Response (DPSIR) conceptual framework has been adapted and redeveloped to become the D(A)PSI(W)R(M). This paper describes in detail the D(A)PSI(W)R(M) and its development from the original DPSIR conceptual frame. Despite its diverse application and demonstrated utility, a number of inherent shortcomings are identified. In particular the DPSIR model family tend to be best suited to individual environmental pressures and human activities and their resulting environmental problems, having a limited focus on the supply and demand of benefits from nature. We present a derived framework, the "Butterfly", a more holistic approach designed to expand the concept. The "Butterfly" model, moves away from the centralised accounting framework approach while more-fully incorporating the complexity of social and ecological systems, and the supply and demand of ecosystem services, which are central to human-environment interactions.

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“…However, since it is not yet clear precisely how spatial patterns of environmental variables reflect natural faunal communities and the biological processes, and since marine research is often confronted with fragmentary data on small spatial (and temporal) scales, an up-scaling is often needed before research becomes relevant for management. This is particularly important given the complex spatial use and multiple activities in most urbanised and industrialised seas such as the North Sea (Elliott et al, 2018).…”

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“…At present, offshore wind farm siting and environmental impact mitigation, for example, are increasing the cumulative and widely ranging environmental impacts possibly affecting populations of, e.g. commercial species, ecosystem functions, such as carbon flow, or hydro-and sediment dynamics (Elliott, et al, 2018). Decommissioning oil and gas platforms in its turn poses new kinds of questions on its advisability with respect to the loss of newly created habitats, used by, e.g.…”

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“…insitenorthsea.org/projects/). Given the ever-increasing demand for space and the spatial and temporal effects-footprints of activities (Elliott et al, 2018), management tools such as marine spatial planning (MSP, European Commission, 2014) are worldwide advocated to balance multiple interests and therefore challenging us with questions on environmental sustainability of, e.g. multi-use platforms or the possibilities of co-using marine space.…”

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Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands

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The expected increase of maritime activities in the North Sea and the growing awareness of its natural environmental value require enhanced science-based environmental advice for more efficient and effective marine management. The North Sea Open Science Conference organised by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences and the Belgian Biodiversity Platform in 2016 aimed to take stock of the present-day scientific knowledge on the North Sea ecosystem, its interactions with human activities and its management. The conference was structured along three themes: (1) 'the scientific backbone of the North Sea ecosystem: adequacy of the knowledge base?', (2) 'A new era in environmental monitoring and assessment: what is at stake?', and (3) 'Sustainability: one for all, all for one?'. Focusing on 'open science', we welcomed about 200 participants from around the North Sea with different backgrounds and interests in environmental sciences. The participants were challenged to reflect on current and future challenges for the North Sea management and, in particular, to explore possible nature-friendly solutions for addressing these challenges during a series of introductory oral (69) and poster (59) presentations, and World Café and Fish Bowl participatory sessions. The participants agreed on six main actions to (1) provide S. Degraer, V. Van Lancker, and T. A. G. P. Van Dijk shared first authorship.

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Using best expert judgement to harmonise marine environmental status assessment and maritime spatial planning

Cited by 58 publications

References 41 publications

Baseline Assessment of Marine Litter and Microplastic Ingestion by Cold-Water Coral Reef Benthos at the East Mingulay Marine Protected Area (Sea of the Hebrides, Western Scotland)

Baseline Assessment of Marine Litter and Microplastic Ingestion by Cold-Water Coral Reef Benthos at the East Mingulay Marine Protected Area (Sea of the Hebrides, Western Scotland)

From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’

Interdisciplinary science to support North Sea marine management: lessons learned and future demands

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