Addressing cumulative effects, maritime conflicts and ecosystem services threats through MSP-oriented geospatial webtools

Menegon, Stefano; Depellegrin, Daniel; Farella, Giulio; Sarretta, Alessandro; Venier, Chiara; Barbanti, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2018.07.009

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“…The Venice Lagoon and its surrounding coastal area belong to the most industrialized sea areas of the Mediterranean (Menegon et al, 2018a). The study area includes the Venice Lagoon (550 km 2 ; 37%) and the adjacent coastal areas of the Adriatic Sea (930 km 2 ; 63%).…”

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The effects of COVID-19 induced lockdown measures on maritime settings of a coastal region

Depellegrin

Bastianini

Fadini

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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The spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) caused an unprecedented implementation of lockdown measures across world's nations. Veneto Region, located in NorthEastern Adriatic Sea was one of the first maritime regions in Italy and Europe subjected to progressive lockdown restrictions. We systematically analyse the effects of national lockdown policies on maritime settings of the region using Automated Identification System (AIS) data from fishing vessels, passenger ships, tanker and cargo vessels collected through the Aqua Alta Oceanographic Tower (AAOT). We derive consequences on vessel activities during the March-April 2020 lockdown, by using a datadriven, comparative spatio-temporal analysis of vessel trajectories. Results show that compared to the same period of 2017, vessel activity were reduced by 69% during the lockdown, fishing activities reduced by 84% and passenger traffic by 78%. We register a restart of fishing activity in the third week of April 2020. We suggest that the presented conceptual and spatial assessment protocol can guide future research on environmental and socioeconomic effects of COVID-19 on marine realms and contribute to further interdisciplinary research with other marine scientific fields.

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The effects of COVID-19 induced lockdown measures on maritime settings of a coastal region

Depellegrin

Bastianini

Fadini

et al. 2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…At the current stage, the Tools4MSP modelling framework has been applied in various areas of interest in the Adriatic Sea, such as entire Adriatic Sea (Depellegrin et al, 2017), Italian Adriatic Sea (Menegon et al, 2018a) and regional scale analysis for the Northern Adriatic Sea (Menegon et al, 2018b) and Emilia-Romagna Region (Barbanti et al, 2017a;Barbanti et al, 2017b). In the following section results for Tools4MSP GeoNode plugin and stand-alone library for the Adriatic Sea will be presented.…”

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“…The tools CEA and MUC models implemented can support the development of maritime spatial plans within the implementation process of the MSP Directive (2014/89/CE) in various case study areas and marine waters in the Mediterranean Sea and beyond. The package is regularly upgraded within the Tools4MSP Geoplatform (data.tools4MSP.eu) including ongoing implementations of pressure specific analysis of CEA, CEA backsourcing (CEA-B;Menegon et al, 2018a) and the integration of marine ecosystem services oriented analysis of anthropogenic threats (MES-Threat) in support of environmental management and resource restoration (Depellegrin & Blažauskas, 2013;Menegon et al, 2018b). The Tools4MSP software package was used in ADRIPLAN (ADRiatic and Ionian maritime spatial PLAnning) and RITMARE (Ricerca ITaliana per il MARe) projects and is currently implemented by various research communities within ongoing European Projects around the Mediterranean, such as SUPREME (Supporting maritime spatial Planning in the Eastern Mediterranean) or PORTODIMARE (geoPortal of Tools & Data for sustainable Management of coAstal and maRine Environment).…”

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“…Through the GUI, the geospatial distribution of CEA for the analysis area as well as the statistical outputs can be explored and downloaded. A complete example of MUC and CEA analysis through the Tools4MSP webtool GUI including a more in-depth investigation on its strengths and limitations in support of Maritime Spatial Planning is available in Menegon et al (2018b).…”

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Tools4MSP: an open source software package to support Maritime Spatial Planning

Menegon

Sarretta

Depellegrin

et al. 2018

PeerJ Computer Science

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This paper presents the Tools4MSP software package, a Python-based Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for geospatial analysis in support of Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) and marine environmental management. The suite was initially developed within the ADRIPLAN data portal, that has been recently upgraded into the Tools4MSP Geoplatform (data.tools4msp.eu), an integrated web platform that supports MSP through the application of different tools, e.g., collaborative geospatial modelling of cumulative effects assessment (CEA) and marine use conflict (MUC) analysis. The package can be used as stand-alone library or as collaborative webtool, providing user-friendly interfaces appropriate to decision-makers, regional authorities, academics and MSP stakeholders. An effective MSP-oriented integrated system of web-based software, users and services is proposed. It includes four components: the Tools4MSP Geoplatform for interoperable and collaborative sharing of geospatial datasets and for MSP-oriented analysis, the Tools4MSP package as stand-alone library for advanced geospatial and statistical analysis, the desktop applications to simplify data curation and the third party data repositories for multidisciplinary and multilevel geospatial datasets integration. The paper presents an application example of the Tools4MSP GeoNode plugin and an example of Tools4MSP stand-alone library for CEA in the Adriatic Sea. The Tools4MSP and the developed software have been released as FOSS under the GPL 3 license and are currently under further development.

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“…HELCOM TAPAS 1 and SPICE 2 , Adriplan 3 , COCONET 4 , PERSEUS 5 , HARMONY 6 , PEGASO 7 , Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan 8 ). However, despite the awareness of the interactive and complex nature of pressures in dynamic ecosystems, such as marine areas, documented by numerous empirical and correlational studies (Crain et al, 2008;Sundbäck et al, 2007;Torquemada et al, 2005;Nordemar et al, 2003), most of the developed methodologies, basically inspired by the approach proposed by Halpern et al (2008), have assumed an additive accumulation of impacts associated to single stressors (Halpern et al, 2008;Ban et al, 2010;Kappel et al, 2012;Korpinen et al, 2012;Andersen et al, 2013;Breton et al, 2014;Depellegrin et al, 2017;Gissi et al, 2017;HELCOM, 2017;Bevilacqua et al, 2018;Menegon et al, 2018aMenegon et al, , 2018b. Among these, only few studies have tried to include in the assessment more complex pathways of interactions between local and global stressors (i.e.…”

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Cumulative Impact Index for the Adriatic Sea: Accounting for interactions among climate and anthropogenic pressures

Furlan

Torresan

Critto

et al. 2019

Science of The Total Environment

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Editor: Damia BarceloAssessing and managing cumulative impacts produced by interactive anthropogenic and natural drivers is a major challenge to achieve the sustainable use of marine spaces in line with the objectives of relevant EU acquis. However, the complexity of the marine environment and the uncertainty linked to future climate and socioeconomic scenarios, represent major obstacles for understanding the multiplicity of impacts on the marine ecosystems and to identify appropriate management strategies to be implemented. Going beyond the traditional additive approach for cumulative impact appraisal, the Cumulative Impact Index (CI-Index) proposed in this paper applies advanced Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis techniques to spatially model relationships between interactive climate and anthropogenic pressures, the environmental exposure and vulnerability patterns and the potential cumulative impacts for the marine ecosystems at risk. The assessment was performed based on spatial data characterizing location and vulnerability of 5 relevant marine targets (e.g. seagrasses and coral beds), and the distribution of 17 human activities (e.g. trawling, maritime traffic) during a reference scenario 2000-2015. Moreover, projections for selected physical and biogeochemical parameters (temperature and chlorophyll 'a') for the 2035-2050 timeframe under RCP8.5 scenario, were integrated in the assessment to evaluate index variations due to changing climate conditions. The application of the CI-Index in the Adriatic Sea, showed higher cumulative impacts in the Northern part of the basin and along the Italian continental shelf, where the high concentration of human activities, the seawater temperature conditions and the presence of vulnerable benthic habitats, contribute to increase the overall impact estimate. Moreover, the CI-Index allowed understanding which are the j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / s c i t o t e n v phenomena contributing to synergic pressures creating potential pathways of environmental disturbance for marine ecosystems. Finally, the application in the Adriatic case showed how the output of the CI-Index can provide support to evaluate multi-risk scenarios and to drive sustainable maritime spatial planning and management.

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Addressing cumulative effects, maritime conflicts and ecosystem services threats through MSP-oriented geospatial webtools

Cited by 55 publications

References 55 publications

The effects of COVID-19 induced lockdown measures on maritime settings of a coastal region

The effects of COVID-19 induced lockdown measures on maritime settings of a coastal region

Tools4MSP: an open source software package to support Maritime Spatial Planning

Cumulative Impact Index for the Adriatic Sea: Accounting for interactions among climate and anthropogenic pressures

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