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Achieving Good Environmental Status for maintaining ecosystem SErvices, by ASsessing integrated impacts of cumulative pressures

Descripción del proyecto

Mejora de la gestión de los ecosistemas marinos europeos e internacionales

Las actividades humanas ejercen una gran presión sobre la salud de nuestro entorno marino, su biodiversidad y el funcionamiento de su ecosistema. El equipo del proyecto GES4SEAS, financiado con fondos europeos, aportará información y orientará la gobernanza marina con vistas a minimizar estas presiones y sus efectos para garantizar la prestación continuada de servicios ecosistémicos. Desarrollará, probará, demostrará y ampliará un conjunto de herramientas innovador y flexible, relevante para la gestión adaptativa basada en los ecosistemas. Este conjunto apoyará el buen estado medioambiental en el contexto de la Directiva marco sobre la estrategia marina, así como políticas a nivel nacional, europeo e internacional. Las tecnologías obtenidas en el marco de GES4SEAS se probarán y demostrarán en once lugares de aprendizaje, uno de ellos en el mar Caribe.

Objetivo

GES4SEAS will inform and guide marine governance in minimizing human pressures and their impacts on marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, while maintaining the sustainable delivery of ecosystem services. This will be achieved through developing an innovative and flexible toolbox, tested, validated, demonstrated and upscaled, in the context of adaptive Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM). This will allow competent authorities to assess and predict the effect of multiple stressors (including climate change) and pressures from human activities, at the national, sub-regional, regional and European level. This will ensure they achieve Good Environmental Status (MSFD), and support different policies at national, European and global levels (e.g. BHD, Biodiversity Strategy, SDG). This will be achieved by integrating stakeholders and the key competent authorities in a Practitioner Advisory Board, in co-creating and validating the toolbox and the EBM approach. In this, we focus on real problem solving and following an iterative and incremental development approach. This will allow GES4SEAS to achieve Technological and Societal Readiness Levels 6, since our solutions will be tested and demonstrated at 11 Learning Sites (LSs) covering important regions and environments. These LSs have been selected to explore geographical specificities, in the four regional seas, with regards to the impacts of cumulative pressures (including climate change) on the functioning of ecosystems, and their capacity for providing ecosystem services, to ensure better management. This includes LSs to explore transboundary issues and a LS at pan-European scale, to explore comparability and harmonization across regional seas, and gain understanding on the functioning of transverse topics (e.g. invasive species, HABs and jellyfish blooms, and top predators). Finally, to internationalize outputs, we have included a LS in the Caribbean Sea, in relation to the SDGs framework and intense extreme events.

Coordinador

FUNDACION AZTI - AZTI FUNDAZIOA
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 1 068 221,25
Dirección
TXATXARRAMENDI UGARTEA Z/G
48395 Sukarrieta
España

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Noreste País Vasco Bizkaia
Tipo de actividad
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Coste total
€ 1 068 221,25

Participantes (16)

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