Addressing uncertainty in modelling cumulative impacts within maritime spatial planning in the Adriatic and Ionian region.

ABSTRACT: Maritime spatial planning (MSP) is envisaged as a tool to apply an ecosystem-based approach to the marine and coastal realms, aiming at ensuring that the collective pressure of human activities is kept within acceptable limits. Cumulative impacts (CI) assessment can support science-based MSP, in order to understand the existing and potential impacts of human uses on the marine environment. A CI assessment includes several sources of uncertainty that can hinder the correct interpretation of its results if not explicitly incorporated in the decision-making process. This study proposes a three-level methodology to perform a general uncertainty analysis integrated with the CI assessment for MSP, applied to the Adriatic and Ionian Region (AIR). We describe the nature and level of uncertainty wi

SUBMITTER: Gissi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5503246 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature