FROM DATA TO WISDOM: INFORMING MSP AND EUSAIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ADRIATIC IONIAN REGION

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1 FROM DATA TO WISDOM: INFORMING MSP AND EUSAIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ADRIATIC IONIAN REGION Alessandro Sarretta, Chiara Venier, Andrea Barbanti, Stefano Menegon, Daniel Depellegrin (CNR-ISMAR) Th rol o Marxan in multi-obj ctiv Marin Spatial Planning:Building capacity to ADRIATIC+ 5 th to 9 th o S pt mb r, V li Lošinj, Croatia

2 MSP AS A CHALLENGE FOR SCIENCE-TO- POLICY Knowledge needed as: Conceptual and methodological approaches Knowledge of system functioning at different spatial scales and with time Data and tools to support decisions

3 MSP is a practical way to cr at and stablish a mor rational organization of the use of marine space and th interactions between its uses, to balanc d mands or d v lopm nt with th n d to protect marine ecosystems, and to achi v social and conomic obj ctiv s in an op n and planned way. Ehl r and Douv r, 2009

4 WHY ISMAR IS INTERESTED AND INVOLVED IN MSP ISMAR has multiples science competences: Ecology/Biology Oceanography Modelling Geology Data management "Vertical" in-depth knowledge "Horizontal" integration

5 PROJECT ADRIPLAN (DG MARE) finished RITMARE IV (Italian Ministry of Research and Education funds) ongoing Past, current and future projects MUSES (H2020 programme CSA) -starting on 1st October 2016 BLUEMED CSA (H2020 programme) starting JPI OCEANS JOINT ACTION ongoing SUPREME, SIMWESTMED (call EASME) PORTODIMARE (Adrion programme) under evaluation CO-EVOLVE (MED programme) under evaluation MANTIS (DG MARE) ongoing AMARE (Med programme) under evaluation TOPIC Transboundary implementation of MSP in AIR Development of tools for MSP; MSP for EUSAIR implementation Multi-use in European Seas Research Agenda on Blue Growth-MSP Research Agenda on Blue Growth-MSP Support to MSPD implementation in the Mediterranean Sea Development of tools for MSP Coastal and maritime tourism Sustainable fishery Marine Protected Areas

6 ADRIPLAN PROJECT ADRiatic Ionian maritim spatial PLANning ( EU funded project to develop MSP in the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion December July 2015 Transboundary (4 countries: Croatia, Italy, Slovenia, Greece), 8 Scientific Partners and 9 Institutional Partners, 17 observers Proposals and recommendations for an operational crossborder MSP process

7 ADRIPLAN METHODOLOGY Guideline to be replicated for other MSP case studies in the AIR and Mediterranean area of study, to be adapted at different scale

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9 MAIN OUTPUTS Methodological framework Initial Assessment for the AIR Analysis of coexistence and compatibility among uses, cumulative impacts, socio-economic analysis for the AIR and the two Focus Areas Strategic Plan for the Adriatic-Ionian Macroregion Portfolio of Actions for the Focus Areas Stakeholders involvement Interoperable Geospatial Data Portal for MSP and Adriplan Data Policy document Tools4MSP (Conflict Scores and Cumulative Impacts)

10 OPEN ACCESS ARCHIVED ADRIPLAN REPORTS Lipizer, Marina et al.. (2014). ADRIPLAN Data Policy. Zenodo /zenodo Barbanti, Andrea et al. (2015). ADRIPLAN Conclusions and Recommendations: A short manual for MSP implementation in the Adriatic-Ionian Region (English edition). Zenodo /zenodo Barbanti, Andrea et al.. (2015). Developing a Maritime Spatial Plan for the Adriatic Ionian Region. Zenodo /zenodo.48231

11 SYNTHESIS MAP OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

12 STRATEGIC ZONING FOR THE ADRIATIC IONIAN REGION

13 PILOT ACTION FOR FOCUS AREA 1

14 ADRIPLAN DATA PORTAL Collecting and making available MSP data in ADRIPLAN Tool to be used by partners collaboratively for: Discover, view and access available data through metadata Create maps merging available data Download data to be used in the project Populate the data portal with new data Incremental implementation during the project User (group) profiles to customize interaction and availability of data Opensource tools: modular and extensible for development of specific functionalities

15 ADRIPLAN DATA PORTAL - WHAT'S INSIDE ~150 vector layers (points, lines,areas) ~50 rasters layers (images, models, interpolations) ~60 maps (combination of layers) Other hundreds of layers through standard OGC-services ~60 users

16 DATA PORTAL ACCESS AND USE STATISTICS

17 OUR FOCUS: TOOLS SUPPORTING MSP Moving from data inventory, to integration within the ADRIPLAN methodology, to supporting tool for MSP planning Use, customization, development, integration in the Portal

18 TYPES OF MSP TOOLS Identifying spatial interactions between activities Risk assessment of cumulative effects of human pressures Decision support systems Web-based vs. GIS-based tools Designed for different users (programmer, scientist, strategic planner, case officer, public), To address different stages of the plan

19 TOOLS4MSP Collecting and making available MSP data in ADRIPLAN Tool to be used by partners collaboratively for: GeoNode plugin (python) Direct interaction with stored data The users can build several scenarios (called Case Studies) by choosing the analysis area, the data layers, the analysis grid cell The output includes: geographical layers, raw data, base statistics and graphs The spatial outputs from each run are automatically saved and published through the portal St ano M n gon t al Op n sourc tools to support Int grat d Coastal Manag m nt and Maritim Spatial Planning. DOI: /p rj.pr prints.2245v1

20 TOOL4MSP - CUMULATIVE IMPACT Identify areas in the marine space where the environmental components are more exposed to anthropogenic pressures Activities and uses (e.g. Maritime transport) Environmental components (e.g. Marine mammals) Pressures (e.g. Underwater noise) Sensitivities: the sensitivity of each environmental component to each pressure generated by a maritime use firstly introduced by Halpern et al. (2008) at global scale, then implemented in several Marine Regions (Mediterranean by Micheli et al. (2013), Baltic Sea by (Korpinen et al., 2013), and North Sea (Andersen et al., 2013)).

21 EXTENDED DATA AND VISUAL REPORTS

22 MARXAN IMPLEMENTATION TO THE ADRIATIC-IONIAN REGION

23 WHEN, WHERE AND WHY WE USE MARXAN?

24 PROPOSED FRAMEWORK FOR THE ADRIATIC-IONIAN REGION CASE STUDY adapted from Mazor et al., The Crowded Sea: Incorporating Multiple Marine Activities in Conservation Plans Can Significantly Alter Spatial Priorities. PLoS ONE 9, DOI: /journal.pone STEP 1= description of the study area in different scales and relative main issues (on the basis of Adriplan results, issues, priorities and needs), answering to the need to apply systematic approaches at various scales (Giakoumi et al., 2012) STEP 2= definition of the aim of the analysis to be realized carrying out different case studies (on conservation protection and on major economic marine activities for the area) STEP 3= definition of conservation features, costs, targets for each case study STEP 4= collecting and pre-processing data layers for creating the input datasets STEP 5= implementation of the spatial prioritization tool: running Marxan for the different case studies on different domains STEP 6=evaluate trade-offs/development of planning scenarios to discuss with stakeholders STEP 7= rerun with different targets STEP 8= final portfolio of planning scenarios ready for discussion with decision-makers. The final plans will meet biodiversity targets; will achieve economic objectives, while minimize costs.

25 STUDY AREA DOMAIN 1 ADRIATIC-IONIAN REGION DOMAIN 2 ITALIAN SIDE OF THE AIR

26 STUDY AREA DOMAIN 3 MARINE WATERS OF EMILIA ROMAGNA REGION

27 GENERAL AIM OF THE ANALYSIS On the basis of the peculiarities of the AIR (EUSAIR pillars), the following priorities, both in terms of environmental protection and socio-economy productivity, have been identified for the areas of study: Protection of the environment: in line with MSFD (e.g. protecting at least 10% of the seabed is currently exploited by trawling) and Biodiversity Convention (increasing the 10% of marine areas); Sustainable development of aquaculture (also focusing on the proposal for new offshore areas between 3nm and 12 nm); Sustainable development of fisheries (both commercial and artisanal); Sustainable development of tourism: guaranteed by the previous 3 points as well as preserving transport and sand deposits activities (specific activity for the Emilia Romagna region), as important activities of the area.

28 SPECIFIC AIM OF THE ANALYSIS Specific objectives will be achieved by developing specific case studies: Identifying priority areas to design networks of MPAs for biodiversity conservation; Identifying priority areas to design aquaculture farms, favouring in particular offshore sites.

29 CONSERVATION FEATURES 1

30 CONSERVATION FEATURES 2

31 CONSERVATION FEATURES 3

32 COSTS

33 LESSONS WE ARE LEARNING ON THE USE OF MARXAN stakeholders/expert involvement for the finalization of the problem, the observation of specific data/thresholds, and in-depth literature review consider the time required to observe and elaborate data (pre-processing phase) importance of a tool for data collection and management (Adriplan Data Portal) need for a clear definition of the problem and of the goals (it was useful to start from the Adriplan experience, as well as to adopt the workflow of Mazor et al., 2014) different approach for the biodiversity conservation and aquaculture analyses

34 FROM DATA TO WISDOM: INFORMING MSP AND EUSAIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE ADRIATIC IONIAN REGION by A. Sarretta, C. Venier, A. Barbanti, S. Menegon, D. Depellegrin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. It can be viewed online here and downloaded here. To cite this work please refer to: Al ssandro Sarr tta, Chiara V ni r, Andr a Barbanti, St ano M n gon, Dani l D p ll grin (2016). From data to wisdom: in orming MSP and EUSAIR impl m ntation in th Adriatic Ionian R gion. DOI: /m9. igshar