ICM and MSP: facilitating tools for solving conflicts and overcoming the science-policy gap
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This document outlines a presentation on using marine spatial planning (MSP) and integrated coastal zone management (ICM) to address the gap between science and policy and facilitate sustainable blue growth. It discusses how improved marine information and monitoring systems can help implement the Marine Strategy Framework Directive by providing data on pressures and states. The presentation provides examples of research projects in the Balearic Islands that mapped coastal environments, modeled fish movement, and assessed cumulative human impacts. It stresses translating scientific findings into accessible formats to support stakeholder involvement and evidence-based decision-making.
ICM and MSP: facilitating tools for solving conflicts and overcoming the science-policy gap
- 1. ICM and MSP: facilitating tools for solving conflicts and overcoming the science-policy gap Blue Growth in the Mediterranean: Perspectives of Spain Palma de Mallorca, 2-3 May 2013 David March + TMOOS and SOCIB Teams Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (IMEDEA) david.march@uib.es
- 2. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 3. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 4. INTRODUCTION • Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP) promotes the Blue Growth by a sustainable use of marine resources. • Blue economy should need to consider the interactions between human activities and their potential effects on marine environment and biodiversity • MSP and ICM provide useful tools to achieve such objectives, based on recent scientific and technological achievements, and following sustainability principles
- 5. INTRODUCTION • Marine and coastal environments are complex ecological systems. • Scientific and technological achievements contribute to the understanding multidisciplinary processes and their interactions at different spatial and temporal scales • Such knowledge constitutes the basis for achieving sound and real sustainability as a response to global change.
- 6. INTRODUCTION • The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) constitutes the environmental pillar of the Integrated Maritime Policy (IMP). • MSFD seeks a comprehensive approach to delivering protection of marine environment, while at the same time recognising the needs of society to benefit from marine resources and allowing sustainable use of those resources. • Taking effective management decisions to deliver these disparate objectives requires an integrated systems analysis provided by the Ecosystem Approach (EA). • The Ecosystem Approach is “a resource planning and management approach that integrates the connections between land, air and water and all living things, including people, their activities and institutions.” (Knowseas project) Qualitative Descriptors of Good Environmental Status - GES Annex I of MSD Final GES Energy and noise Biodiversity Non-Indigenous species Marine litter Sea-food contaminants Population of commercial species Contaminants Alterations of hydrography Eutrophication Eutrophication Sea-floor integrity © Finn Bjørklid
- 7. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 8. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP • • • • • Limited understanding of ecosystems and of how to implement ecosystembased management Limited baseline data (spatial and statistical) Limited understanding of interactions among the environmental, socioeconomic-cultural, and governance systems. Lack of communication and coordination among scientists and decisionmakers. Inefficient and insufficient governance system for managing natural resources and lack of sound, knowledge based, decision making tools in the coastal and marine areas.
- 9. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP Advance sustainability science to support the implementation of European policies such as the IMP and the MSFD through conducting research at local, regional, and international scales. • Provide adequate marine information through observations and modelling products to respond to science, technology and society needs • Increase knowledge and understanding of human-environment interactions in coastal and marine zones and provide practical solutions to solving sustainability problems • Develop and evaluate science-based decision-making tools and · methods to support MSP and ICM and related frameworks, with particular emphasis on the integration of social and ecological dimensions
- 10. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 11. MARINE INFORMATION • Information is required both for scientific use and for supporting decision making tools • European initiatives promote the transfer and availability of marine information (eg. Marine Knowledge 2020, Emodnet, GMET, INSPIRE) • Following main principles, public marine information need to be: o Discoverable o Accessible o Freely available o Quality assured o Interoperable o Standardized • Marine data main issues: o Multidimensional o Cross-border o Cross-sector
- 12. MARINE INFORMATION • Observing systems and monitoring programs (including those related to the implementation of the MSFD) are required to provide observations and modelling products to respond to science, technology and society needs.
- 13. MARINE INFORMATION • Development of Marine Spatial Data Infrastructures (MSDI) using open source components to support the implementation of the MSFD http://knowseas.socib.es/lion
- 14. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 15. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IMEDEA/SOCIB, in cooperation with the Government of Balearic Islands, coordinated the Integrated Coastal Zone Management project UGIZC. The main scientific outcomes derived from this project include: Boating zonation Beach morphodynamics Environmental sensitivity of the coastline Benthic habitat mapping Indicators of sustainability Fish movement within MPA
- 16. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Application of the cumulative pressure mapping (Halpern et al. 2008) as an assessment tool within the context of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
- 17. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 18. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY The new observing systems, by integrating different types of monitoring platforms at different scales, and by this, providing data and tools, contribute to MSFD pressures and states indicators as shown in the examples provided in the figure bellow.
- 19. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY SACOSTA (Environmental Sensitivity of the Coastline) provides: • geomorphological classification of the coast • biological resources (coastal protected areas) • human use (i.e. infrastructures, services, cultural and historic resources). http://gis.socib.es/sacosta
- 20. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY • Knowledge transfer from science to society • Provide science-based tools to support decision making • Support stakeholder platforms within the context of the MSFD www.msfd.eu Adaptive Policy Framework Toolbox
- 21. OUTLINE 1. INTRODUCTION 2. SCIENCE-POLICY GAP 3. MARINE INFORMATION 4. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 5. RESPONSE TO SOCIETY 6. CONCLUSIONS
- 22. CONCLUSIONS • Scientific information through the ecosystem based approach can be incorporated into MSP and ICM • Promote research, technological innovation and development for monitoring coastal habitats and open ocean • Development of tools that convert scientific information into readable formats by stakeholders can aid in the decision-making processes • The real challenge is piecing together all of the elements through the process of ICM and MSP to support policy-based research