Developing policy and practice for marine net gain

Hooper, Tara; Austen, Melanie C.; Lannin, Aisling

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111387

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“…19,[32][33][34] National programmes subsequently developed strate gies and frameworks to support the transition to a net gain approach, 35,36 before legislation introduced targets for BNG to be delivered by the English planning system. 13 This transition is notable because net gain objectives embed sustainability principles and move beyond NNL approaches; 34,[37][38][39] the requirement for tangible gains is a crucial step towards protecting and enhancing the natural environment. Although the changed emphasis has been incrementally localised through phased updates of local government plan ning policies, 40 national net gain requirements have simultaneously incentivised the rapid development of assessment tools and practitioners' guidance.…”

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Can the implementation of net gain requirements in England's planning system be applied to health?

Stewart-Evans,

Koksal,

Chang

2024

The Lancet Planetary Health

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Can the implementation of net gain requirements in England's planning system be applied to health?

Stewart-Evans,

Koksal,

Chang

2024

The Lancet Planetary Health

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“…For example, the INSITE Programme [135] and ongoing discussion in terms of the commissioning of offshore wind sites and licensing. This also includes the ideas of net gain and how a more holistic view should be adopted [136]. This should eventually lead to more understanding of the entire package of ecosystem function and services delivered by offshore artificial structures and eventually towards their coherent valuation in both monetary and nonmonetary terms.…”

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Haven or hell? A perspective on the ecology of offshore oil and gas platforms

Fortune,

Madgett,

Scarborough Bull

et al. 2024

PLOS Sustain Transform

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Offshore oil and gas platforms (OGP) have been installed worldwide and initially with limited consideration given to the nature of their positive or negative long-term interactions with the natural marine habitats. However, as OGP reach the end of their useful life, with many being decommissioned and removed, it is timely to review the growing evidence of the association of marine biota with OGP to provide a summary and synthesis for policy makers and to give insight to decisions in increasingly crowded marine spatial plans. In the last decade, there has been rapid increase in studies concerning the ecological role of OGP. This research reveals strong contextual difference between platforms in different geographical regions, but all OGP add to local biodiversity particularly where hard substrata are introduced to areas dominated by depositional (mud and sand) habitats. This includes the attraction and increased productivity of fish, sessile invertebrates, and algae while also affecting change in the benthic habitats beneath platforms. There also evidence of the OGP changing local hydrodynamics conditions with effects on phytoplankton and local scour. In terms of the biota associated with OGP, water depth is a major driver of community type across systems. This study emphasises that while knowledge of OGP communities and species has improved, there are still significant knowledge gaps that may prevent the most environmentally beneficial decisions being made around decommissioning. There are few studies following the effect of decommissioning (topping, toppling, or removal) on the ecology of the systems as they change with time (longitudinal research) for the decommissioning event. There is also a need for more studies comparing the biodiversity and functionality of OGP system to artificial and natural reefs and habitats to better understand the ecological cost-benefit of decommissioning scenarios. Finally, commercial data is often unavailable and even when available, surveys are often conducted using varied methodology that prevents comparative analysis. By imposing/agreeing standards and sharing data around the ecological cost-benefit of decommissioning strategies, improve policy guidance concerning OGP planning, and management might emerge.

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“…In various administrative regions, rivers combine and diverge into the ocean, while ocean currents distribute marine pollution throughout the sea. It is challenging to provide timely and efficient assistance for the implementation of ecological compensation using eco-environmental monitoring data, because land and sea environmental monitoring technologies and monitoring standards have not yet effectively converged (Levrel et al, 2012;Hooper et al, 2021). The marine environments, for instance, of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area, Beihai in Guangxi, Zhanjiang in Guangdong, and Haikou in Hainan close to the Beibu Gulf interact with one another, causing pollution and destruction in one area to frequently spread to other areas or even the entire sea area, which is impacted by the accumulated effects of economic and social activities on the land (Wan et al, 2021).…”

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Problems identification and improvement path of China’s marine ecological compensation legal system

Wang

2023

Front. Mar. Sci.

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In China’s marine industry, which has been growing quickly over the past few years, marine ecological compensation has been a critical framework for safeguarding the marine environment. Through the text analysis of the China’s marine ecological compensation legal system, this study found that there are multiple defects in it, including institutional supply shortage leads to lack of coordination and dispersion in China’s marine ecological compensation legislative system, the absence of legislative concept of ‘land-sea overall planning’ in China’s marine ecological compensation legal system, limited scope of China’s marine ecological compensation, lack of clear standards for marine ecological compensation, the relationship between marine planning and the marine ecological compensation system is not straightforward, and insufficiency of regulation on the marine ecological compensation. The paper suggests that priority should be given to developing a multi-level legal system for compensating marine ecological damage, the legal method of achieving ‘land-sea overall planning’ and a compensation mechanism that combines a variety of compensation methods with a scientific and reasonable standard should be established within China’s ecological compensation legal system, marine ecological compensation should be incorporated into marine planning and the separation of powers and implementation of the marine ecological compensation regulation should be enhanced.

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Developing policy and practice for marine net gain

Cited by 19 publications

References 56 publications

Can the implementation of net gain requirements in England's planning system be applied to health?

Can the implementation of net gain requirements in England's planning system be applied to health?

Haven or hell? A perspective on the ecology of offshore oil and gas platforms

Problems identification and improvement path of China’s marine ecological compensation legal system

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