Life on Earth depends on healthy oceans and seas. Marine ecosystems are important for climate change mitigation, biodiversity, transport, and food supply. The oceans provide important ecosystem services to humans, spanning over provisional, regulating, and cultural services, the latter including recreational purposes. However, biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services are increasingly threatened by the growing activity level in the oceans. Blue growth and climate change provide increasing pressures and impacts on marine ecosystems. New scientific data, knowledge, methods, and models on marine ecosystems are needed to plan for sustainable use of the coasts and oceans from a shorter as well as longer-term perspective.
Existing research has highlighted the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services for human wellbeing. Methods have been developed and presented for calculating cumulative impacts from human activities on the ecosystems within the last two decades. Recent studies have underlined the need for strengthening synergies across different planning objectives to optimise the use of the seas while giving space for marine protected areas. However, ecosystem services and how to deal with the threads affecting them is a complex topic that requires more research.
To enable sustainable and spatial-temporal management of ecosystem services in a long-term perspective, further and novel knowledge, models, and methods are needed for how to take an ecosystem-based approach in maritime spatial planning while encompassing all sustainability dimensions and being cross-sectoral in scope. Additionally, the solutions need to consider the complex nature of the challenges surrounding the changes to ecosystems such as climate change, pollution from terrestrial lands, and the availability and quality of spatial-temporal data and models.
This call asks for scientific papers on one or more topics that contribute in novel ways with knowledge, guidelines, models, and/or methods that support spatial planning for sustainable use of marine ecosystem services and resources. Suggested topics include:
• Spatial-temporal mapping of coastal and marine ecosystems and their services
• Accounting for climate change in coastal and marine spatial planning
• Utilising new data and approaches for ecosystem-based coastal and marine spatial planning
• Scenario creation in coastal and marine spatial planning and trade-offs negotiations
• Spatial decision support tools for management of coastal and marine ecosystems
This list is not exclusive, and other topics within the overall theme are welcome.
Life on Earth depends on healthy oceans and seas. Marine ecosystems are important for climate change mitigation, biodiversity, transport, and food supply. The oceans provide important ecosystem services to humans, spanning over provisional, regulating, and cultural services, the latter including recreational purposes. However, biodiversity and the delivery of ecosystem services are increasingly threatened by the growing activity level in the oceans. Blue growth and climate change provide increasing pressures and impacts on marine ecosystems. New scientific data, knowledge, methods, and models on marine ecosystems are needed to plan for sustainable use of the coasts and oceans from a shorter as well as longer-term perspective.
Existing research has highlighted the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem services for human wellbeing. Methods have been developed and presented for calculating cumulative impacts from human activities on the ecosystems within the last two decades. Recent studies have underlined the need for strengthening synergies across different planning objectives to optimise the use of the seas while giving space for marine protected areas. However, ecosystem services and how to deal with the threads affecting them is a complex topic that requires more research.
To enable sustainable and spatial-temporal management of ecosystem services in a long-term perspective, further and novel knowledge, models, and methods are needed for how to take an ecosystem-based approach in maritime spatial planning while encompassing all sustainability dimensions and being cross-sectoral in scope. Additionally, the solutions need to consider the complex nature of the challenges surrounding the changes to ecosystems such as climate change, pollution from terrestrial lands, and the availability and quality of spatial-temporal data and models.
This call asks for scientific papers on one or more topics that contribute in novel ways with knowledge, guidelines, models, and/or methods that support spatial planning for sustainable use of marine ecosystem services and resources. Suggested topics include:
• Spatial-temporal mapping of coastal and marine ecosystems and their services
• Accounting for climate change in coastal and marine spatial planning
• Utilising new data and approaches for ecosystem-based coastal and marine spatial planning
• Scenario creation in coastal and marine spatial planning and trade-offs negotiations
• Spatial decision support tools for management of coastal and marine ecosystems
This list is not exclusive, and other topics within the overall theme are welcome.
