Acronym MAFIA
Category
Fisheries
Title Integrated management of agriculture, fishery, environment and economy – a strategic research alliance Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator NA Coordinator email NA
Coordinator institution
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark)
Institutions involved
DHI - Danish Hydraulic Institute (Denmark) ,
NA - Not available (United States of America) ,
NA - Not available (Finland) ,
SMHI - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sweden) ,
DTU-AQUA - Technical University of Denmark; National Institute of Aquatic Resources (Denmark) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
SDU - University of Southern Denmark (Denmark) ,
Start year 2010 End year 2015 Funding (€) € NA Website https://orbit.dtu.dk/en/projects/integrated-management-of-agriculture-fishery-environment-and-econ Summary The Strategic Research Council financed project MAFIA is a strategic research alliance between central Danish and international fisheries and marine environment based university institutes. Management of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems is legally defined in a number of European directives. The current scientific basis for implementing the directives is limited by insufficient models, deficiencies in terms of uncertainties, local and regional aspects and lack of knowledge on the interplay between agriculture, fishery, environmental qualities in all surface waters, and economy. The strategic alliance MAFIA focuses on integration between land use in drainage basins, transport of nutrients to water bodies, biogeochemistry in freshwater and in marine ecosystems, fishery models and economic models as a basis for further integrated management models. The project integrates and trains new researchers and private and public end-users to develop and work with a number of empirical and dynamic models and management tools, further developed into integrated management models cross traditional media and science-based decision support systems, to strengthen national and international environmental management. The project team includes a number of internationally well-recognized scientists and the involved institutions have a profound experience and significant international collaboration. The results lead to major scientific progress and have high impact in relation to end users and on implementation on national and international management strategies. The results and research quality include analyses of novel processes and development of new and improved models, integrated prognoses and scenarios for the interplay between changes in the drainage basins and the ecological and economic consequences, a number of science-based decision support tools and a significant research education. The MAFIA alliance is an interdisciplinary and international approach designed to establish a body of knowledge to develop tools, models, scenarios and predictions in order to integrate science and management from agriculture, fishery, aquatic environments and economy into a common platform. The overall is largely focused on linking the complex interplay between land use in the drainage basins, the transport of nutrients, biogeochemistry of freshwater and marine waters, integrated ecosystem and fishery models, cost-minimization models and ecosystem services assessments. This complex model framework can be used to assess effects of changing market conditions, changed agricultural and fishery support policies, as well as fulfilments of water related directives. Specific objectives include: (i) identify key elements and reduce uncertainties in using complex models, (ii) design, develop and integrate important new concepts in the models, (iii) linking models and evaluate their ability to detect and follow changes in terrestrial environments into ecological and economic consequences, (iv) integrate and educate researchers and end-users, and (v) strengthen Danish research in linking science, modelling and management of the environment and economics and thereby consolidate a strong international position. DTU Aqua research in MAFIA focuses on further development, implementation and validation of the dynamic multi-stock and multi-fleet fisheries simulation models and bio-economic management evaluation tools for fisheries systems (such as the Baltic FLR and IBM models) as well as higher trophic level ecosystem and food web models with focus on biological interactions in relation to fish (such as Baltic ATLANTIS, BALMAR, Ecopath w. Ecosim, and the SMS multi-species models). For all those models DTU Aqua has a dominating role in developing and implementing for the Baltic Sea fisheries and ecosystem.
Keywords
Economy;
Fisheries management;
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