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Integrated coastal-zone risk management – ICES Cooperative Research Report

January 16, 2014 by Andronikos Kafas No Comments | Category Marine Directorate Science, Marine Renewables

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea science plan has emphasised the importance of coastal zone management and marine planning.  In recognition of this, a Theme Session was held at the Annual Science Conference in Nantes in 2010. Papers from that Session have been combined into Cooperative Research Report number 320, edited by Roland Cormier (Canada), Ian Davies (Marine Scotland) and Andreas Kannen (Germany).  The Theme Session covered:

• marine spatial planning, including the effectiveness of managementpractices (e.g. marine protected areas, MPAs), and its role in theconservation of biodiversity;
• contributions to socio-economic understanding of ecosystem goods andservices, and forecasting of the effect of human activities;
• the influence of the development of renewable energy resources (e.g.wind, hydropower, tidal, and waves) on marine habitat and biota.

Marine Scotland contributed  series of papers to the Theme Session describing the results from seabed surveys in areas with potential for marine renewable energy developments, the structural changes made within Scottish Government in concert with the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 to improve both marine licensing and environmental protection, and some aspects of the spatial modelling undertaken by Marine Scotland in support of sectoral marine planning.

The full text of the CRR can be downloaded from the ICES website and individual papers involving Marine Scotland (listed below) through Marine Scotland Interactive at http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/science/MSInteractive

• Marine Scotland contributions to ICES Cooperative Research Report number 320 (2013)
• Cormier, R., Davies, I.M., and Kannen, A. (Eds.) 2013. Integrated coastal-zone risk management. ICES Cooperative Research Report 320. 145 pp.
• Cormier, R., Davies, I.M. and Kannen, A.  2013.  Integrated coastal-zone risk management. In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 1-4
• Hayes, P.J., and Davies, I.M., 2013.  Marine Scotland Science: the contribution of bathymetric surveys to marine planning for renewable energy developments.  In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 12-18
• McKie, J.C. and Davies, I.M, 2013.  Institutional and regulatory reform to contribute to the achievement of development objectives in the marine environment.  In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 18-26
• Cormier, R., Kannen, A., Morales-Nin, B.,  Davies, I.M.,  Greathead, C., Sardá, R., Diedrich, A., Stelzenmüller, V., and Moksness, E., 2013.   Risk-based frameworks in ICZM and MSP decision-making processes. In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 26-37
• Cormier, R., Kannen, A., Davies, I.M.,  Sardá, R., and Diedrich, A., 2013. Policy fragmentation implications in ecosystem-based management in practice.  In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 37-44
• Harrald, M., Hayes, P.J., Davies, I.M., and Robertson, M.R., 2013.  Contribution of seabed habitat surveys to marine planning for renewable energy developments.  In: Integrated coastal-zone risk management, Cormier, R., Davies, I.M,, and Kannen, A. (Eds). ICES Cooperative Research Report 320, pp 107-114

Article by Dr. Ian Davies

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