scholarly journals Utility of collaborative GIS for maritime spatial planning: Design and evaluation of Baltic Explorer

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Koski ◽  
Mikko Rönneberg ◽  
Pyry Kettunen ◽  
Søren Eliasen ◽  
Henning Sten Hansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Collaborative Gis

scholarly journals User experiences of using a spatial analysis tool in collaborative GIS for maritime spatial planning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Koski ◽  
Mikko Rönneberg ◽  
Pyry Kettunen ◽  
Aurelija Armoškaitė ◽  
Solvita Strake ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
User Experiences ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Collaborative Gis

scholarly journals Enhancing interaction in maritime spatial planning workshops through collaborative GIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Mikko Rönneberg ◽  
Christian Koski ◽  
Pyry Kettunen ◽  
Juha Oksanen
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Data Exploration ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
User Test ◽  
Wind Park ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Collaborative Gis

Abstract. We have created a cross-platform web-map CGIS for collaborative Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) workshops, called Baltic Explorer [1]. MSP requires simple and easy to use tools for facilitating discussion and managing spatial data in collaborative workshops (Pınarbaşı et al. 2017). Yet, according to reports from real-world MSP workshops, digital spatial tools are used scarcely, with planners preferring paper maps and pens to handle the geospatial interaction. Collaborative GIS (CGIS) offers tools for structuring participation in group spatial decision processes (Balram & Dragicevic 2006). Therefore, CGIS can have potential to improve many aspects of MSP workshops.Baltic Explorer offers multi-user map workspaces for collaborative geospatial data exploration, spatial analysis and collaborative map drawing, Figure 1. In MSP workshops the workflow with Baltic Explorer starts with organisers creating workspaces for the participants. During the workshop participants can explore the large amount of MSP related geospatial data overlays provided by multiple SDIs. This offers overall and detailed insight for the workshop task. Participants can contribute by sharing features they have drawn on the workspace map. These features can be viewed and edited by other participants to allow for a more interactive way of collaborating.Baltic Explorer was demonstrated and evaluated in two real-word MSP workshops as well as in a gamified user test. The first workshop was a cross-border meeting where various stakeholders discussed planning objectives and available data. The evaluation focused on exploration of geospatial data and collaborative map drawing tools. The second workshop was a cross-sector event where participants were tasked to identify a new suitable wind park site using the on-the-fly spatial analysis tool which was also the focus of the evaluation. In the gamified user test participants were tasked to play a game that simulated common MSP workshop tasks using Baltic Explorer with personal and shared device setups. The evaluation focused on the device setup to be used with CGIS tools in MSP. In all three demonstrations evaluation was carried out via naturalistic observation and questionnaires.The new way of working with spatial data in MSP workshops was well received by participants. According to the questionnaire and observations in the first workshop, participants found the geospatial data exploration and collaborative map drawing tools helpful for various tasks. The same applied in the second evaluation while also the analysis tool was considered useful. The gamified user test revealed that multiple device types, such as laptops and large screens, are recommended for MSP workshops. Access to geospatial data was considered important in all the workshops. The observation, feedback, results from questionnaires and requirements from literature were used to refine the concept of Baltic Explorer, as well as to design, enhance and add utility to the system (e.g. spatial analysis). The conducted research adds to the knowledge about interaction with spatial data in collaborative workshops, which can enhance future CGIS.

scholarly journals Fisheries Sustainability through Soft Multi-Use Maritime Spatial Planning and Local Development Co-Management: Potentials and Challenges in Greece

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 2026 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stella Sofia I. Kyvelou ◽  
Dimitrios G. Ierapetritis
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Artisanal Fisheries ◽  
Sustainable Livelihood ◽  
Small Scale Fisheries ◽  
Island Communities ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Family Based ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning

Small-scale fisheries in the Mediterranean represent a significant part of the fisheries industry and their substantial social, economic and place attachment related role has always been acknowledged in the region. Despite the fact that this usually family-based endeavor has a vast economic impact on coastal and island communities of the sea-basin, data and insights on the Mediterranean artisanal fisheries continue to be inadequately developed and poorly integrated in the local development strategies. Thus, the aim of this research is two-fold. Firstly, it presents some data and facts on the fisheries sector in the region and secondly it explores the options of their survival, prosperity and sustainability, approaching the combination of fisheries and tourism as a small-scale and soft “multi-use” in the marine space. Greece, with a huge potential in both the fisheries and the tourism sector, was used as focus area where a co-development process was designed aiming to identify advantages/potentials and challenges/disadvantages of the co-existence of artisanal fisheries and tourism, as perceived by a series of stakeholders including the co-management schemes (Fisheries Local Action Groups, FLAGs) in the country. Key conclusion is that sustainable livelihood from small-scale fisheries depends on the correlation between fisheries and other marine activities. Despite some limitations, this can boost sustainable local development and be a unique pattern of a “win-win” and soft multi-use marine spatial planning (MSP), with economic, environmental, social, cultural and governance related benefits for the coastal communities.

scholarly journals Multi-Use of the Sea as a Sustainable Development Instrument in Five EU Sea Basins

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8159
Author(s):  
Joanna Przedrzymirska ◽  
Jacek Zaucha ◽  
Helena Calado ◽  
Ivana Lukic ◽  
Martina Bocci ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
The North Sea ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines the concept of maritime multi-use as a territorial/SPATIAL governance instrument for the enhancement of sustainable development in five EU sea basins. Multi-use (MU) is expected to enhance the productivity of blue economy sectors, as well as deliver additional socio-economic benefits related to the environmental and social dimensions of sustainable development. The paper provides a definition of maritime multi-use and identifies the multi-uses with the highest potential in EU sea basins. In each sea basin, multi-use plays a different role as concerns sustainable development. For the Eastern Baltic Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, the MU focus should remain on the environmental pillar of sustainable development. In the North Sea, North Atlantic and Western Baltic Sea, addressing social sustainability seems a key precondition for success of MU in enhancement of sustainable spatial development at sea. Moreover, it has been suggested to introduce MU key global strategies such as SDGs or Macroregional strategies and action plans and to supplement maritime spatial planning with sectoral incentives and educational efforts as key vehicles supporting MU. The paper concludes by identifying aspects which, in order to inform maritime spatial planning and maritime governance regarding a more conscious application of the aforementioned concept, require further investigation. Key tasks are related to: more profound evaluation of performance of policies supporting MUs, researching the impact of MU on societal goals and on the MU costs and benefits, including external ones, and finally identifying the impact of MU on the development of various sectors and regions on land.

Governance prospects for maritime spatial planning in the tropical atlantic compared to EU case studies

Marine Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 123 ◽  
pp. 104294
Author(s):  
José Guerreiro ◽  
Ana Carvalho ◽  
Daniela Casimiro ◽  
Marie Bonnin ◽  
Helena Calado ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Tropical Atlantic ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning

NATIONAL AFFAIRS

2013 ◽  
Vol 43 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 226-275
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Greenhouse Gas Mitigation ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Barrier Reef ◽  
Global Responsibility ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
Legal Barriers ◽  
Fukushima Disaster

Japan - Fukushima Disaster and Reform "Jotaro Yokoyama" 226 Nigeria - Renewable Energy Sources "Legal Barriers and Potential" (Damilola S. Olawuyi) 233 India - Greenhouse Gas Mitigation "Bharat H. Desai" 238 Bangladesh - Climate Change and Vulnerability "Local and Global Responsibility" (Md. Kamal Uddin) 252 Australia - The Great Barrier Reef "Maritime Spatial Planning" (Daud Hassan) 259 South Africa - Mining and Legal Measures "Michael Kabai" 270

Coastal erosion driven Land-Sea Interactions in Maritime Spatial Planning - a case of Bulgaria

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Margarita Stancheva ◽  
Hristo Stanchev ◽  
Robert Young ◽  
Georgi Parlichev
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Erosion ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning
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