KnowSeas
Knowledge-based Sustainable
Management for Europe’s Seas
Marine Spatial Planning
Activities
Tim O’Higgins
Edinburgh, 1st September 2011
The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement number 226675
Overall objective
A comprehensive
scientific knowledge base
and practical guidance for
the application of the
Ecosystem Approach to
the sustainable
development of Europe’s
regional seas.
Image from: www.gstaadlife.com/
Overall project design
Terrestrial
Local
inshore
National
EEZ
Transboun
dary
Regional
Seas
Within one
year
Within
1 political
term
(5 yrs)
Before
2020
(Target for
GEnS)
By 2050
EEZ
MSFD
WFD
EU Wide
Global
WP3 - Causes and Consequences of
Ecosystem Change
•Ecopath
Atlantic
Atm
Dep
•Bayesian Belief Networks
(BBNs)
•Deterministic
N2 denitrification
reaeration
mineralisation & nitrification
DO
mineralisation
autolysis
UK2
production
consumption
Nutrient
GM
N
photosynthesis
NH4-N
NO3-N
NL2
Algae
mortality
C
N
P
Si
N
P
PO4-P
AIP
UK1
respiration
metabolism
P
Grazers
grazing
Si
adsorption
biodeposition
Si
NL1
Channel
BE
settling
AIP in
sediment
grazing
consumption
Detritus
C
nitrification
photosynthesis
Microphytobenthos
C N
P
Si
settling
settling
Detritus in Sediment
C
N
P
Si
mortality
mineralisation
FR
The Delft3D-GEM grid showing the river inputs (blue), Channel inputs
(purple) and atmospheric inputs (red).
oxygen
consumption
BBNs
ELME
Scenarios
NW Black Sea
conceptual model
STATES
Global Community
World Markets
Local Responsibility
Alternative
Scenarios
National Enterprise
Scenario
outcomes
Baseline Scenario
NW Black
Sea BBN
Cystoseira habitat
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Zostera habitat
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Phyllophora habitat
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Pelagic predator stocks
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Small pelagic stocks
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Wetland habitat
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Demersal stocks
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Zoobenthos
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WP4 - Analysis of Costs and
Benefits
FISHERIES
ECONOMICS
DATABASE
Spatially explicit
Fishing catches
and values (€)
Year
ICES box
Country
Species
Fisheries
subsidy data by
NUTS LEVEL 3
FISHERIES
DEPENDECY
RATIO
FISHERIES
EMPLOYMENT
RATIO
FISHING
VALUES
By Gear type
based on
VMS data
UK Only
WP6 - Assessment Toolbox
COnflict REsolution (CORE)
Tool
GIS-Seas Tool
Enhancing Stakeholder
CApacity (ESCA) Tool
DEcision MAking (DEMA)
Tool
COnflict Resolution (CORE) Tool
Mull of Kintyre tidal energy study
Tidal devices
Value maps on the Touch Table
Touch table
Valuation tool - Fisheries
Spatial Multi-Criteria Analysis Workshop
GeoNetwork
http://gis.socib.es/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home
GeoServer
http://gis.socib.es/esicostes/
http://gis.socib.es/geoserver/web/?wicket:bookmarkablePage
=:org.geoserver.web.demo.MapPreviewPage
How KnowSeas can help marine
management: an illustration
BALTIC SEA
DOGGER BANK WIND
FARMS FISHERIES
GULF OF FINLAND
MINGULAY REEF
CAMPBELLTOWN
TIDAL ENERGY
EUTROPHICATION
SOUTHERN NORTH SEA
EUTROPHICATION
FISHERIES NW SHELF
NORTHERN ADRIATIC
TOP PREDATORS
GULF OF LIONS
MEDITERRANEAN
MERCURY/INVASIVES
RAPANA MANAGEMENT
DILEMMA