Blueprint for improved measurement of the international ocean economy

Jolliffe, James; Jolly, Claire; Stevens, Barrie

doi:10.1787/aff5375b-en

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“…In terms of the survey respondents' occupations, the majority of users are unsurprisingly scientists (Figure 3.3). A wide variety of marine data are collected by scientific research programmes for research purposes, which tends to make ocean science a primary user of marine data (IOC, 2017 [28]). Scientists are making use of their own data, but they also depend on data collected by others.…”

Section: Who Are the Marine Data Users: Many Scientists… But Not Onlymentioning

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Value chains in public marine data

Jolly

Jolliffe

Postlethwaite

et al. 2021

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers

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Marine data play a crucial role for many scientific disciplines, as well as for very diverse operational services such as fisheries management, environmental planning, marine conservation, weather forecasting, or port management. The information derived from marine data is also increasingly finding its way into a wide and varied range of public policy arenas and private industries. Collecting, distributing and archiving public marine data provide benefits to society at large, however as with all public investments, assessments are needed to provide evidence to decision makers. Based on an original survey of UK marine data users, this paper explores pathways through which marine data are used and transformed into actionable information, creating systematised value chains for the first time. The analysis unveils trends in current marine data uses in the UK and key benefits of data uses. The paper lays the foundations for further OECD work with the marine data community.

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Section: Who Are the Marine Data Users: Many Scientists… But Not Onlymentioning

confidence: 99%

Value chains in public marine data

Jolly

Jolliffe

Postlethwaite

et al. 2021

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers

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Using Ocean Accounting towards an integrated assessment of ecosystem services and benefits within a coastal lake

Gacutan¹,

Lal²,

Herath³

et al. 2022

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Coasts lie at the interface between terrestrial and marine environments, where complex interrelationships and feedbacks between environmental, social and economic factors provide a challenge for decision-making. The knowledge and data needed to link and measure these multiple domains are often highly fragmented and incoherent. Ocean Accounting provides a means to organise relevant ocean data into a common framework, grounded in existing international statistical standards for national and environmental-economic accounting. Here, we test Ocean Accounting within Lake Illawarra, New South Wales (Australia), compiling accounts for the years between 2010 and 2020, inclusive, to measure the extent of coastal vegetation (mangrove, tidal marsh and seagrass) and associated ecosystem services flows (climate change mitigation, eutrophication mitigation) in physical and monetary terms and associated production and employment within sectors of the ocean economy. The accounts show an increase in mangroves by 2 ha and a decrease in seagrass of 80 ha. A net increase was observed in the amount of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus sequestered across coastal vegetation, due to the expansion of mangroves. Alongside changes in ecosystem extent, a 2-fold increase in full-time ocean-related employment was observed. Fisheries catch also showed significant variation over the 10-year period, where dependencies were observed between commercial species with seagrass and tidal marsh. The relationships and measures derived from accounts provide a cohesive and integrated understanding to provide information for the management and standardised ecosystem service assessments.

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Blueprint for improved measurement of the international ocean economy

Cited by 2 publications

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Value chains in public marine data

Value chains in public marine data

Using Ocean Accounting towards an integrated assessment of ecosystem services and benefits within a coastal lake

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