Objective Marine ecosystems posses great intrinsic value as reserves of biological diversity and are vital providers of goods and services to humanity. However, they are often disregarded during economic and social development. Europe's four sea areas; the Baltic, NE Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea have each paid a heavy price for unsustainable development within their catchments and sea areas. Their ecosystems have suffered to differing degrees from eutrophication, chemical pollution, unsustainable fisheries and physical destruction of habitats.This damage is closely connected with human lifestyles throughout the continent. The future integrity of marine systems depends on our approach to European development in the coming decades. Bringing marine ecosystems into policies for sustainable development requires better information on the causal connections between human pressures and the changing state of the systems. This is particularly important at a time when the European Community is expanding, re-examining its agricultural and chemical policies, implementing a new fisheries policy and exploring new ways to protect marine systems.ELME will enhance understanding of causality, forecast the impacts of divergent development scenarios and inform evolving Community policies. Current interdisciplinary knowledge linking lifestyles with their marine environmental consequences is widely dispersed. ELME brings together a necessarily large consortium, covering all relevant disciplines and regions. It integrates existing knowledge of environmental state changes, sectoral pressures and social and economic drivers using a common conceptual model.It will select contextual indicators for each causal level and model the relationships between them. These models will be applied to plausible development scenarios with particular focus on the accession process, to explore possible consequences for the stated four marine ecosystems. Results diffused to stakeholders. Fields of science agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisherieshumanitieshistory and archaeologyhistorynatural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollutionnatural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystemsnatural sciencesmathematicsapplied mathematicsstatistics and probability Keywords Eutrophication FISHERIES Marine pollution catchment management environmental economics fisheries habitats Programme(s) FP6-SUSTDEV - Sustainable Development, Global Change and Ecosystems: thematic priority 6 under the Focusing and Integrating Community Research programme 2002-2006. Topic(s) SUSTDEV-3 - Global change and ecosystems Call for proposal FP6-2002-GLOBAL-1 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme STREP - Specific Targeted Research Project Coordinator UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH EU contribution No data Address Drake Circus PLYMOUTH United Kingdom See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (26) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT AMSTERDAM Netherlands EU contribution No data Address DE BOELELAAN 1105 AMSTERDAM See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR ENVIRONMENT FOOD AND RURAL AFFAIRS ACTING THROUGH CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT, FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SCIENCE United Kingdom EU contribution No data Address Pakefield Road LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK See on map Links Website Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSIDAD DEL PAIS VASCO-EUSKAL HERRIKO UNIBERSITATEA Spain EU contribution No data Address Avda. 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