Descripción del proyecto
Vías de transición hacia la gestión sostenible de los recursos oceánicos
Los océanos tienen un papel fundamental a la hora de sustentar la vida en la Tierra. Además de producir oxígeno, regular el clima y ofrecer un hábitat para las distintas especies marinas, los océanos son una fuente importante de alimento, energía y materias primas. En este contexto, el equipo del proyecto financiado con fondos europeos Blue Paths contribuirá a abordar los retos en materia de sostenibilidad que derivan de las interpretaciones poco claras, las presiones humanas y la falta de metodologías integradas en el análisis del sistema socioecológico marino. En concreto, desarrollará un marco integrado que vinculará las interacciones entre las personas y el medioambiente a los sectores de crecimiento azul y las tecnologías oceánicas omnipresentes, identificará vías sostenibles para el uso de los recursos oceánicos y proporcionará nuevos conocimientos para la gestión y planificación de los recursos oceánicos. Esto se logrará mediante herramientas innovadoras para la toma de decisiones y la gestión adaptativa de los recursos marinos.
Objetivo
"Oceans are a life-support system for human societies. They supply fundamental goods such as fish food, materials, energy and provide benefits associated with our well-being, they form cultural values and contribute to jobs creation and trade. The development of national ocean development plans combined with Blue Growth (BG) strategies are turning the ocean into a new frontier of industrial development. In fact, the EU's Blue Economy produces a turnover of 750 billion euro/year. However, the actual sustainability of this Blue Acceleration process remain to a large extent uncertain, due to 1) an unclear interpretation of the concept of ""Blue Growth"" across different policies, the 2) multiple human pressures across scales and marine regions cause ecological degradation with high social costs and 3) the lack of integrated methodologies that can capture the effects of the BG trends on oceans health and human well-being over spatio-temporal scales. There is an urgent need for interdisciplinary approaches that can address the pathways of sustainable transitions in marine realms and the deriving benefits and costs to society and the environment. Blue-Paths aims to 1) develop an integrated human-ocean framework for BG; 2) identify environmental and socio-economic effects of pathways of sustainable transitions on the use of ocean?s ecosystem goods and services and 3) deliver new knowledge on the management and planning of ocean resource. To do so, Blue-Paths will couple a marine socio-ecological system (SES) framework with an Ensemble Machine Learning (ML) technique to simulate the spatio-temporal environmental and socio-economic effects on the marine SES induced by pervasive ocean technologies. This is of high practical value, as it will be tested on the 2050 ecological transition plan of Spain. Blue-Paths framework combined with ML techniques will provide innovative tools to monitor the sustainable use of the ocean space and foster adaptive management of marine resources."
Ámbito científico
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinador
17004 Girona
España