Advances in maritime spatial planning, under an ecosystem-based approach, by developing and implementing decision support tools

  1. PINARBASI, KEMAL
Supervised by:
  1. Ángel Borja Yerro Director
  2. Ibon Galparsoro Director
  3. José Ignacio Saiz Salinas Director

Defence university: Universidad del País Vasco - Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

Fecha de defensa: 12 June 2020

Committee:
  1. Manuel Soto López Chair
  2. Catarina Frazao da Fonseca Ribeiro Dos Santos Secretary
  3. Michael Elliott Committee member
Department:
  1. Zoología y Biología Celular Animal

Type: Thesis

Teseo: 152817 DIALNET lock_openADDI editor

Abstract

Due to increasing competition for ocean space, there is a signifcant need for a coherent maritime management and planning. While achieving social and economic objectives, marine ecosystems should be protected by balancing human acitivities and their spatial distribution. In planning processes, development and implementation of decision support tools can assist planners, decision makers, industry and investors in order to implement eocsystem-based MSP.In this thesis, it has been aimed to characterise existing DSTs, capture and analyse DST end-user perceptions; to perform an example of the implementation of a DST by developing a model thar integrates most relevant economic, environmental and social components to identify feasible areas and future scenarios for offshore wind farms; and finally to identify the key issues and challengues in order to raise recommendations for a transboundary EB-MSP in the Bay of Biscay.The findings of this thesis can help researchers to better understand the links between DSTs and MSP processes and to contribute to MSP processes with required tools.