Acronym MARISPLAN
Category
Aquaculture
Title Marine Spatial Planning in a Changing Climate Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Markku Viitasalo Coordinator email Markku.Viitasalo@ymparisto.fi
Coordinator institution
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland)
Institutions involved
EMI - Estonian Marine Institute (Estonia) ,
FMI - Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland) ,
SIME - Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment (Sweden) ,
SMHI - Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (Sweden) ,
Start year 2011 End year 2014 Funding (€) € NA Website https://www.aka.fi/globalassets/tietysti1.fi/awanhat/documents/tiedostot/ficca/ficca-16.04.2013/marisplan-ficca-midway-seminar-2013-04-16.pdf Summary Climate change influences the physical, chemical and biological properties of the Baltic Sea. During the next 50 to 100 years, sea surface temperature has been estimated to increase by 1-4 degrees, along with decrease in salinity and the area covered by sea ice will diminish. Changes will occur in sea level, air pressure and wind conditions. Society, in turn, is affected directly by the climate and indirectly by the marine ecosystem. Conditions for agriculture, aquaculture, fisheries, maritime traffic, building, recreation and energy production will be different. All these changes will induce major changes in the geographical distribution and population densities of plant and animal species. This will influence the focal areas for protecting the sea. Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is a public process of analysing and allocating the spatial and temporal distribution of human activities in marine areas to achieve ecological, economic, and social objectives that are usually specified through a political process (UNESCO-IOC MSP Guidelines). The aim of MSP is to avoid conflicts between the various uses of the sea, and to avoid degradation and overuse of its ecosystem services. MARISPLAN will investigate, with the aid of hydrodynamic, ecological, watershed and economic models how climate change will influence the ecosystem of the Baltic Sea and its uses. How the society can adapt its policies and uses of the marine ecosystem in a changing climate will be assessed, and GIS-based MSP tools will be developed. We will investigate three case study areas, Helsinki City sea area, the Archipelago Sea and the Quark-Bothnian Bay area, each of which are interesting from the point of view of MSP.
Keywords
Fisheries management;
Aquaculture management;
Spatial planning;
Impacts;
Climate change;
Policy;
Integrated management;
Marine Region
20
Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
19
Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
27
Bothnian Bay (27.IIId.31)
3
Marine Region Map
