Significant Workshop on Research Needs with regard to Socio-Economic Analysis under the MSFD
4 October 2013
Austria
STAGES is an EC FP7-funded project that is directly responding to a request from DG Environment to put a support action in place to facilitate the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Under the MSFD, EU Member States are expected to assess the overall status of their respective marine environments and to put in place the necessary measures to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) by 2020.
The workshop is jointly organised by the STAGES partners: the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), L’Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), and the European Marine Board.
The workshop report will form the basis of the STAGES science-policy report on needs for further research for the implementation of the MSFD. This report will be used to inform DG Environment, future research programme managers and decision makers.
The format of this upcoming workshop will mirror that of the two previous STAGES workshops: Identification of Research Needs with Regard to the Implementation of Monitoring Programmes (13-15 May 2013) and Research Needs with Regard to the Pressures and their Impacts on Marine Ecosystems (4-5 September 2013); in that a consultation process is underway prior to the workshop that will help to develop an understanding of the main knowledge gaps and identify the research needs with regard to socio-economic research on marine ecosystems under the MSFD.
Nic Hoepffner (JRC), organiser of the workshop, said: “This consultation will inform the focus of the workshop discussions of the five Thematic Groups, which will address the collection of socio-economic data and statistics, programmes of measures and their implications for the economic analysis, valuation studies and methodology. Results from the workshop will be presented as general considerations which will then be used to identify specific knowledge gaps and devise short-term, medium-term and long-term recommendations for further research on the GES descriptors per theme.”
For more information about STAGES and The Research Needs with Regard to the Socio-economic Analysis under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) workshop, please visit www.stagesproject.eu or contact Marisa Fernández Cañamero, STAGES Coordinator (mfernandez@cetmar.org) or Raquel Diez Arenas (rdiez@cetmar.org), Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación (CETMAR) www.cetmar.org.
Notes for editors
The STAGES project is being carried out by a consortium of eight partners in seven countries and is being coordinated by the Centro Tecnológico del Mar (CETMAR) in Spain. STAGES has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 308473.
The five Thematic Groups are: the Biodiversity Group; the Contaminants & Nutrients Group; the Disturbances Group; the Commercially Exploited Fish Group; and the Hydrographical Conditions Group.
The workshop is jointly organised by the STAGES partners: the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES), L’Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER), and the European Marine Board.
The workshop report will form the basis of the STAGES science-policy report on needs for further research for the implementation of the MSFD. This report will be used to inform DG Environment, future research programme managers and decision makers.
The format of this upcoming workshop will mirror that of the two previous STAGES workshops: Identification of Research Needs with Regard to the Implementation of Monitoring Programmes (13-15 May 2013) and Research Needs with Regard to the Pressures and their Impacts on Marine Ecosystems (4-5 September 2013); in that a consultation process is underway prior to the workshop that will help to develop an understanding of the main knowledge gaps and identify the research needs with regard to socio-economic research on marine ecosystems under the MSFD.
Nic Hoepffner (JRC), organiser of the workshop, said: “This consultation will inform the focus of the workshop discussions of the five Thematic Groups, which will address the collection of socio-economic data and statistics, programmes of measures and their implications for the economic analysis, valuation studies and methodology. Results from the workshop will be presented as general considerations which will then be used to identify specific knowledge gaps and devise short-term, medium-term and long-term recommendations for further research on the GES descriptors per theme.”
For more information about STAGES and The Research Needs with Regard to the Socio-economic Analysis under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) workshop, please visit www.stagesproject.eu or contact Marisa Fernández Cañamero, STAGES Coordinator (mfernandez@cetmar.org) or Raquel Diez Arenas (rdiez@cetmar.org), Centro Tecnológico del Mar - Fundación (CETMAR) www.cetmar.org.
Notes for editors
The STAGES project is being carried out by a consortium of eight partners in seven countries and is being coordinated by the Centro Tecnológico del Mar (CETMAR) in Spain. STAGES has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement n° 308473.
The five Thematic Groups are: the Biodiversity Group; the Contaminants & Nutrients Group; the Disturbances Group; the Commercially Exploited Fish Group; and the Hydrographical Conditions Group.