Marine Systems Approaches for Biodiversity Resilience and Ecosystem Sustainablity

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Marine SABRES will organize three Blue Sustainability Fairs (D7.2), targeting the local communities living in the the DAs. These fairs will promote best practices and examples, fostered by the project approach, of sustainable marine production and tourism, raising awareness among the general public of the importance of sustainable consumption. The Fairs will build on the efforts of WP2, following the multi-actor involvement and co-creation approach, to showcase the process of generating the SES framework and decision-making tool, along with their positive impacts, to the public.The Fairs will invite local producers and business representatives (e.g., fishers, tourist operators, etc.) to present how they employ a sustainable approach in their daily activities, through booths and stands where it will be possible to promote sustainable blue growth, engage with citizens and offer a taste of their products. In parallel, seminars and short sessions also involving regulators and influencers will provide the opportunity to better present the project’s methodology and outcomes, the socio-economic effects of sustainably managing marine resources, as well as touch on hot topics in the field such as sustainable labelling.

Baseline Assessment SES models

In each of the DAs the Simple SES will be populated to describe the baseline system function. Location-specific parameters, indicators and proxies will be selected for eachmodel subsystem (XCT). The links between them will be characterised and quantified to describe the current baseline conditions. The resulting baseline assessment SES models (D4.1) will be tested with stakeholders DA-SGs to ensure that they capture the major components of system function and are sufficiently robust to support decisions (Task 2.3).Initial concrete measures are identified in the DA descriptions, these are the starting point for further measures development and trialing in each DA.

Blue Sustainability Fair 1

Marine SABRES will organize three Blue Sustainability Fairs (D7.2), targeting the local communities living in the the DAs. These fairs will promote best practices and examples, fostered by the project approach, of sustainable marine production and tourism, raising awareness among the general public of the importance of sustainable consumption. The Fairs will build on the efforts of WP2, following the multi-actor involvement and co-creation approach, to showcase the process of generating the SES framework and decision-making tool, along with their positive impacts, to the public.The Fairs will invite local producers and business representatives (e.g., fishers, tourist operators, etc.) to present how they employ a sustainable approach in their daily activities, through booths and stands where it will be possible to promote sustainable blue growth, engage with citizens and offer a taste of their products. In parallel, seminars and short sessions also involving regulators and influencers will provide the opportunity to better present the project’s methodology and outcomes, the socio-economic effects of sustainably managing marine resources, as well as touch on hot topics in the field such as sustainable labelling.

Scenarios to reach biodiversity sustainability and climate targets

In this deliverable, we will adapt RCP and SCP scenarios to DA areas to develop a visionfor pathways to transformation based on stakeholder inputs (O-SG, DA-SGs). The scenario development will combine narratives with spatial datasets to capture current and future challenges across sectors. Scenarios will be developed as a series of logical alternatives to support decision making and applications (D5.1).

Briefing papers created for each XCT

This deliverable is an instruction manual including set of briefing papers on each subsystem (XCT) of the Simple SES to inform each DA. These Briefing Papers (BP) will include:BP1: Resource definition and priority setting. BP2: Activity and pressure definition; BP3 Biodiversity EcosystemStructure and Function; BP4: ES; BP5: Environmental Economic; BP6: Innovative Economy and Finance; BP7:individual and collective action; BP8: Governance; BP9: Conservation and management; BP 10: scenarios and shocktesting; BP 11: GenderTwo shared experience workshops (M3.1, M3.2) will enable the DA partners to identify common approaches to the choice of indicators and proxies; common challenges (for the Baseline assessment); common approaches to the implementation of scenarios (for scenario applications) as well as providing feedback on the structure and function ofthe SES and the guidance documents.

Data Management Plan

Following the FAIR a first version of the DMP (M1.9) will be produced including guidelines on (meta)data standards, vocabularies and quality control procedures, during andafter the project. The harmonisation of (meta-)data formats (syntactic interoperability), temporal and spatial resolution and thematic differences (semantic interoperability) will be carried using agreed templates including those of the INSPIRE Directive as in e.g., EMODnet, LifeWatch and ENVRI-FAIR. The DMP will be a living document updatedthroughout the course of the project and circulated to all partners.

Project Manual

The project handbook (M1.4) will be circulated to all project partners by Month 6 of the project, summarizing the main project outputs, tasks and responsibilities as well as summarizing the annual technical and financial reporting obligations.

Policy Brief 1

Brief designed for communication with policy makers as to the key outcomes and products of the project, making clear links to relevant policies.

Simple SES design brief

The Marine SABRES Concept will be the initial starting point for a series of workshops with each DA-SG and with the OS-G. The Concept will be used as an organizational tool to identify different information categories (model subsystems). The workshops (M2.2-M2.9) will employ standard interview protocols and participatory modelling techniques such as Fuzzy Cognitive Modelling. Participants of the DA-SGs will articulate and identify the results which will include:- a specification of the “priority components” i.e. the main Activities, Pressures Ecosystem Components and Societal Actors in each DA system. These priority components will be incorporated into the Simple SES by WP3.- an overview of the existing tools, solutions and guidelines, used by policy and by PA and Coastal Zone Managers in each DA. All stakeholders will assess the needs and demands for relevant current or future tools and guidelines. The overview, including the needs and demands for operational tools, will form the basis of the work in WP6.Moreover, the members of the O-SG will review the overviews of all areas to extract the most common and generally applicable types of tools, applications, and solutions, including the common needs and demands and design brief for the Simple SES and Decision Support System. The priority components, DA needs and demands and the overview will comprise D2.1 the Simple SES design brief.

Marine SABRES Information Platform

All project inputs outputs and throughputs will be centralized on a specially created Marine SABRES information platform. This database will be maintained by UCC andhosted using CKAN.

Policy Brief 2

Brief designed for communication with policy makers as to the key outcomes and products of the project, making clear links to relevant policies.

Communication and Dissemination Strategy

Marine SABRES WP2 focuses on the dissemination of project outputs to stakeholders, WP7 deals with communication to media and the public. These two work packages will work in tandem to facilitate the dissemination (WP2), exploitation and communication (WP7) of project messages. This process allows Marine SABRES to develop project outputs andresults for and with stakeholders and to explore options for further downstream take-up through end-user adoption. WP2 will also provide insight into how and where future research in relevant areas should take place, ultimately progressing Marine SABRES efforts in line with RRI principles whilst maximising the project’s impact. In support of WP2, WP7will develop the dedicated Marine SABRES Communication Strategy and Dissemination Plan (D7.1) at the beginning of the project. This plan will focus on capturing and strategically directing communication and dissemination opportunities for all WPs. WP7 will be aligned with WP2 to ensure communication efforts are impact focused, and key messages linked to results are tailored to specific audiences. The efforts of WP2 and WP7 will ensure a broad geographic reach. We anticipate open access publications, for example, in the following high Impact Factor (IF) journals: Frontiers in Marine Science (IF=3.49), Marine Pollution Bulletin (IF=4.049), Marine Policy (IF=3.228).

Collation of existing marine SES

Based on the stakeholder generated System Descriptions of priority components and requirements (see D2.1), WP3 will generate a specification to ensure that the Simple SES is robust and sufficiently flexible to incorporate the social and ecological components of each DA and includes the functionality to provide useful and usable for all end users. A rigorous SWOT analysis of existing SES model, literature and past project output will supplement the stakeholder system-descriptions and design briefs to contribute to the development of the Simple SES (D3.1) for application in the DAs.

Design specification for DSS

The SES technical and transformation tools (WP3, WP5) will be tested at a dedicated stakeholder workshop (M6.2)- the feedback from stakeholder will contribute to a detailed final DSS design specification (D6.1).

Practice Abstract for SES Development

Practice Abstract for Social-Ecological-Systems Development for practitioners – this will be developed under Task 3.1 and Task 3.2 and will be submitted to the EIP AGRI Platform using their supplied common format. WP2 will engage local, national, regional as well as international stakeholders to co-design the Simple SES, test and appraise project outputs and ensure consistency and effective stakeholder involvement across DAs. The resulting innovative knowledge from this project (notably, but not exclusively, from WP3 and WP6) will feed into the EIP AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination to practitioners. The end-user material will be produced in the form of two summaries for practitioners using the EIP common format. MarineSABRES will also submit project details to the platform along with the first Practice Abstract (D3.3) in M16 with a second practice abstract scheduled for Month 44 (D6.4).

Serious Game Competition 2

Marine SABRES will design and develop a series of three serious games (D7.1) on the topics at the heart of the project (sustainable consumption, sustainable production and sustainable tourism) targeting young citizens (students from 10– 18 years old) located in the DAs and will involve them in an international schools’ competition starting from year 2 of the project. This will be supported by educational resources about marine ES, blue growth and marine sustainability, and will invite students to challenge each other on the knowledge acquired during the competitions through the online serious games. The LifeWatch ERIC training platform will provide a virtual space for game dvelopment, as well as access to the educational and training materials created as part of this task and throughout the project. Award ceremonies will be planned on the occasion of public events and/or project meetings. Moreover, a bonus game will be published on the project website as an additional tool to accompany the existing training resources. Both serious games and training resources will be provided in English, as the official language of the project, to maximize collaboration and interaction between participants and stimulate the reinforcement of cross-domain (linguistic and scientific) skills, in the national languages spoken in the DAs to improve accessibility to younger students and wider engagement within local communities.

Serious Game Competition 1

Marine SABRES will design and develop a series of three serious games (D7.1) on the topics at the heart of the project (sustainable consumption, sustainable production and sustainable tourism) targeting young citizens (students from 10– 18 years old) located in the DAs and will involve them in an international schools’ competition starting from year 2 of the project. This will be supported by educational resources about marine ES, blue growth and marine sustainability, and will invite students to challenge each other on the knowledge acquired during the competitions through the online serious games. The LifeWatch ERIC training platform will provide a virtual space for game dvelopment, as well as access to the educational and training materials created as part of this task and throughout the project. Award ceremonies will be planned on the occasion of public events and/or project meetings. Moreover, a bonus game will be published on the project website as an additional tool to accompany the existing training resources. Both serious games and training resources will be provided in English, as the official language of the project, to maximize collaboration and interaction between participants and stimulate the reinforcement of cross-domain (linguistic and scientific) skills, in the national languages spoken in the DAs to improve accessibility to younger students and wider engagement within local communities.

Project WebTV

The LifeWatch Multimedia Production Centre will create and upload videos, introducing a storytelling approach to communicate the successes and solutions of the project, presented through the narratives of communities local to the DAs. Two kinds of output are planned: 1) A Web TV producing video contents of varying formats (interviews, spots, tutorials, etc.) to be shared via the project's online communication channels and to support education and training activities; and 2) A short documentary telling the story of the projects through the voices of the different stakeholders and beneficiaries involved, to be showcased during the last Blue Sustainability Fair and other project public events, and sent to appropriate festivals and distribution platforms.

Pubblicazioni

The minimum complexity necessary: The value of a simple Social-Ecological systems analysis in holistic marine environmental management

Autori: Gemma Smith, Jonathan Atkins, Amanda Gregory, Michael Elliott
Pubblicato in: Sustainable Futures, Numero 9, 2025, ISSN 2666-1888
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.SFTR.2025.100476

The cross-ecosystem dimension of managing sandy beach social-ecological systems

Autori: Gabriela Jorge-Romero, Michael Elliott, Omar Defeo
Pubblicato in: Ocean & Coastal Management, Numero 262, 2025, ISSN 0964-5691
Editore: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.OCECOAMAN.2025.107551

A multi-dimensional approach to improve validation practices for qualitative models of marine social-ecological systems.

Autori: Bruno Oliveira, Nuno V. Álvaro, Furqan Asif, Andrea Z. Botelho, João Canning-Clode, Daniela Casimiro, Candelaria Cecilia-Ruano, Catherine Chambers, Ana C. Costa, Ana Dinis, Jesús P. García, Ricardo Haroun, Unn Laksá, Gustavo M. Martins, Alexander H. McGra
Pubblicato in: Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, Numero 9, 2025, ISSN 2666-0490
Editore: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.crsust.2024.100273

Ocean and Coastal Management

Autori: Michael Elliott, Ángel Borja, Roland Cormier
Pubblicato in: Ocean and Coastal Management, 2025, ISSN 0964-5691
Editore: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/J.OCECOAMAN.2025.107623

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