Structuring social data for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Sundblad, Eva-Lotta; Grimvall, Anders; Gipperth, Lena; Morf, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.marpol.2013.11.004

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“…It is necessary to elaborate and apply common principles and broader, interdisciplinary management evaluation in the use of marine space involving several types of activities and sectors Soma et al, 2013;Stelzenmüller et al, 2013;Sundblad et al, 2014). Policymakers need to know the costs and benefits of conserving ecosystem goods and services to manage them sustainably.…”

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Integrated ecological–economic fisheries models—Evaluation, review and challenges for implementation

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Marine ecosystems evolve under many interconnected and area-specific pressures. To fulfil society's intensifying and diversifying needs while ensuring ecologically sustainable development, more effective marine spatial planning and broader-scope management of marine resources is necessary. Integrated ecological-economic fisheries models (IEEFMs) of marine systems are needed to evaluate impacts and sustainability of potential management actions and understand, and anticipate ecological, economic and social dynamics at a range of scales from local to national and regional. To make these models most effective, it is important to determine how model characteristics and methods of communicating results influence the model implementation, the nature of the advice that can be provided and the impact on decisions taken by managers. This article presents a global review and comparative evaluation of 35 IEEFMs applied to marine fisheries and marine ecosystem resources to identify the characteristics that determine their usefulness, effectiveness and implementation. The focus is on fully integrated models that allow for feedbacks between ecological and human processes although not all the models reviewed achieve that. Modellers must invest more time to make models user friendly and to participate in management fora where models and model results can be explained and discussed. Such involvement is beneficial to all parties, leading to improvement of models and more effective implementation of advice, but demands substantial resources which must be built into the governance process. It takes time to develop effective processes for using IEEFMs requiring a long-term commitment to integrating multidisciplinary modelling advice into management decision-making. K E Y W O R D Sbio-economic models, comparative model evaluation, fisheries management advice, integrated ecological-economic fisheries models, marine spatial planning and cross-sector management, performance criteria and scales and risks, use and acceptance and implementation and communication and flexibility and complexity | INTRODUCTIONThere is a growing need for tools to evaluate policies and assess tradeoffs in management of marine resources and provision of ecosystem services such as fishing, aquaculture, renewable energy, shipping, conservation and recreation (Cormier, Kannen, Elliott, & Hall, 2015;Degnbol & Wilson, 2008;EU 2014;Langlois, Fréon, Steyer, Delgenés, & Hélias, 2014;White et al., 2012). It is necessary to elaborate and apply common principles and broader, interdisciplinary management evaluation in the use of marine space involving several types of activities and sectors Soma et al., 2013;Stelzenmüller et al., 2013;Sundblad et al., 2014). Policymakers need to know the costs and benefits of conserving ecosystem goods and services to manage them sustainably. Moreover, according to an ecosystembased approach to management, specific pressures, associated uncertainties and risks need to be taken into account (Douvere, 2008;Ehler & Douvere, 2009;Gi...

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“…Despite the increasing popularity of the DPSIR framework and derivative models among the scientific community since the early 1990s, and the recommendations of OECD (1993), EPA (1994), EEA (1999), and EC (1999) for its application, few studies have focused on the marine habitat ( Figure 2B). From our comprehensive review, only 26 studies exclusively cover this habitat and from these, only eight illustrate concrete case studies [German Exclusive Economic Zone (Fock et al, 2011); German waters of the North Sea (Gimpel et al, 2013); Baltic Sea, Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and North East Atlantic Ocean (Langmead et al, 2007(Langmead et al, , 2009; Baltic Sea (Andrulewicz, 2005); North and Baltic Sea (Sundblad et al, 2014); Northwestern part of the North Sea (Tett et al, 2013) and Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas (Kelble et al, 2013)]. The remaining 18 studies are either explicitly conceptual or illustrate the framework with generic situations/issues.…”

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DPSIR—Two Decades of Trying to Develop a Unifying Framework for Marine Environmental Management?

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“…Borja et al, 2006;Elliot, 2014;Maxim et al, 2009;Omann et al, 2009;Spangenberg et al, 2009). Nevertheless even under this well-established framework different definitions of the terms driver, pressure, state, impact and response are utilized (Sundblad et al, 2014). A reason might be that DPSIR is a conceptual framework allowing for divergent interpretations depending on casespecific research and management questions (Cooper, 2013;Sundblad et al, 2014) or different attitudes (Svarstad et al, 2008) and adjustments for specific needs (Cooper, 2013;Maxim et al, 2009;Spangenberg et al, 2009).…”

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“…Nevertheless even under this well-established framework different definitions of the terms driver, pressure, state, impact and response are utilized (Sundblad et al, 2014). A reason might be that DPSIR is a conceptual framework allowing for divergent interpretations depending on casespecific research and management questions (Cooper, 2013;Sundblad et al, 2014) or different attitudes (Svarstad et al, 2008) and adjustments for specific needs (Cooper, 2013;Maxim et al, 2009;Spangenberg et al, 2009). The inconsequent application of the DPSIR concept and its terms, however, exacerbates communication and understanding, and restrains its usability in environmental assessments and ecosystem management ).…”

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“…eg. Borja et al, 2006;Halpern et al, 2007Halpern et al, , 2008Kristensen, 2004;Link et al, 2010;Maxim et al, 2009;Oman et al, 2009, Sundblad et al, 2014, which potentially may lead to misapplication and therefore misunderstanding among researchers, managers, decision-makers and other stakeholders. An overall usage of concerted terminology is necessary to eliminate confusion hampering successful implementation of ecosystem-based management and integrated policy.…”

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Drivers and pressures – Untangling the terms commonly used in marine science and policy

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Rau

Zaiko

2016

Journal of Environmental Management

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In the marine sciences an increasing number of studies on environmental changes, their causes, and environmental assessments emerged in recent years. Often authors use non-uniform and inconsistent definitions of key terms like driver, threats, pressures etc. Although all of these studies clearly define causal dependencies between the interacting socio-economic and environmental systems in an understandable way, still an overall imprecise wording could induce misunderstanding at higher policy levels when it comes to integrated ecosystems assessments. Therefore we recommend using unified definitions for a better communication between science and management within national, regional and international environmental policies, for example the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). With this article we provide definitions compatible with the driver-pressure-state-impact-response (DPSIR) approach. Although most examples are MSFD related and thus have a marine focus the definitions are intended to be equally applicable for other systems and are usable world-wide. We suggest sticking to these definitions for an easy and simplified knowledge transfer from science to management, since DPSIR model is already accepted as a helpful tool for structuring and communicating ecosystem analyses.

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Structuring social data for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive

Cited by 10 publications

References 23 publications

Integrated ecological–economic fisheries models—Evaluation, review and challenges for implementation

Integrated ecological–economic fisheries models—Evaluation, review and challenges for implementation

DPSIR—Two Decades of Trying to Develop a Unifying Framework for Marine Environmental Management?

Drivers and pressures – Untangling the terms commonly used in marine science and policy

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