Descrizione del progetto
Percorsi di transizione verso una gestione sostenibile delle risorse oceaniche
Gli oceani svolgono un ruolo cruciale nel sostenere la vita sulla Terra. Oltre a produrre ossigeno, regolare il clima e fornire un habitat per diverse specie marine, gli oceani sono una fonte importante di cibo, energia e materie prime. In proposito, il progetto Blue Paths, finanziato dall’UE, contribuirà ad affrontare le sfide della sostenibilità che derivano da interpretazioni poco chiare, pressioni umane e mancanza di metodologie integrate nell’analisi dei sistemi socio-ecologici marini. In particolare, svilupperà un quadro integrato che collega le interazioni uomo-ambiente ai settori di crescita blu e alle tecnologie oceaniche pervasive, individuerà percorsi sostenibili per l’utilizzo delle risorse oceaniche e fornirà nuove conoscenze per la gestione e la pianificazione delle risorse oceaniche. Questo obiettivo sarà raggiunto fornendo strumenti innovativi per il processo decisionale e la gestione adattiva delle risorse marine.
Obiettivo
"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."
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-PF-EF - HORIZON TMA MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships - European FellowshipsCoordinatore
17004 Girona
Spagna