Leonie RobinsonODEMM Project Coordinator

Options for delivering ecosystem-based marine management (ODEMM)

MSFD mini-seminarBrussels, 22 Feb 2012

• Title: Options for Delivering Ecosystem-based Marine Management (ODEMM)

• Duration & timing: March 2010 - August 2013• Geographical scope: Europe’s four regional seas• Aim: To develop a set of fully-costed ecosystem management

options that would deliver the objectives of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Habitats Directive, the European Commission Blue Book and the Guidelines for the Integrated Approach to Maritime Policy.

• Focus: Support implementation of MSFD (and Habs Directive) by developing tools and understanding required to weigh up options by Member States, Regional bodies and the EC

1. Introduction

Timeline for MSFD taken from UK perspective (DEFRA)

Introduction

ODEMM

1. Timing affects utility of work to different steps of MSFD implementation

2. Tools developed applicable to any MS or regional assessment

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3

TASKS Completed summer 2011

Completed autumn 2012

Completed summer 2013

Initial assessment, metadata collation, status and risk to GES (WPs 1 and 3)

X

Regional governance & legal setting (WP 2) X

Descriptor case studies: evaluate management measures against status quo (WP 4)

X

Descriptor case studies: evaluate risks to GES under different scenarios (WP5)

X

Descriptor case studies: costs and benefits of different scenarios (WP6)

X

Elaborate different governance settings to support EA and MSFD implementation (WP7)

X

Implementation plan for delivering MSFD HLOs and toolkit to support decision-making

X

Support MSFD initial assessment process

Support development of targets, implementation of monitoring programmes and selection of programmes of measures

Support general implementation of MSFD and scope to achieve EBM in European regional seas

OUTPUTS:- Toolkit and tested applications of individual tools across

regional seas (databases to drive these)- Barriers to implementation of MSFD (and linked policies) and

plan for transition to successful implementation

Introduction

www.liv.ac.uk/odemm/Outputs.html

Introduction

Baltic SeaMediterranean SeaNorth East Atlantic OceanEEZ Boundaries

Atlantic OceanBay of Biscay & Iberian CoastCeltic SeaGreater north Sea

Marine Sub-regionsAdriatic SeaAegean-Levantine SeaIonian SeaW. Mediterranean Sea

Marine Regions

Tools developed tested in all regional seas.

Scope and knowledge transfer dependent on:- expertise of partnership-Coverage of MSs and neighbouring countries- links of partners to national administrations and regional bodies- approach of MSs and regional bodies

2. Results to date

Support MSFD initial assessment process

Support development of targets, implementation of monitoring programmes and selection of programmes of measures

Support general implementation of MSFD and scope to achieve EBM in European regional seas

ODEMM tools: Linkage Framework and Tables

ODEMM tools: Linkage Framework and Tables

ODEMM tools: Pressure Assessment

• Tool to assess threat to ecosystem characteristics (ECs) from different human sectors and their pressures

• Can be used to assess threats related to the different GES descriptors

• Weights interactions between ECs, pressures and sectors in terms of extent & frequency of overlap, degree of impact (DoI), resilience of EC and persistence of the pressure • Utility to inform selection of management measuresExtent/frequency of overlap & DoI – management optionsResilience & persistence – management potential

• Applied to all regional seas and guidance available online

ODEMM tools: GES Risk Assessment

• Tool to assess level of risk to individual GES descriptors at time of assessment (low, moderate or high risk)

• Risk criteria developed for each descriptor based around definition of GES for descriptors, plus information on indicators and attributes

• Methodology developed so that information from relevant existing national and regional assessments could be translated into an initial assessment for GES (rather than assuming they mean the same thing)

• Applied to all regional seas and guidance available online

Results of ODEMM GES risk assessment

Detailed information on each Descriptor per regional sea in ODEMM Deliverable 1

1. Good to develop methodologies through a research driven process, but will they be used by MSs/regional sea bodies in current cycle of MSFD?

How to improve chances of research interacting with actors:• Funders facilitate interactions between relevant actors from

call onwards (not once projects already well developed)• Projects develop their contact lists for dissemination but

funders could help to direct this to relevant actors from start• Calls could include a need to include partners (silent or active)

key in actual implementation (actors)• Limitations on this in terms of volume of projects and

knowledge overload?

Lessons learnt &future challenges

2. Future challenges for research• Availability of spatially refined information on human use of

marine environment• Furthering understanding of ecosystem goods and services• Need to work across land-sea interface to properly account for

all key pressures on marine ecosystems (and GES descriptors)• Need to work on link between rapidly developing governance

field and more traditional marine ecosystem assessment work that tends to focus on the sector/pressure/state level

• Need to recognise links between all relevant policies for different GES descriptors and how these influence ability to achieve targets

Lessons learnt &future challenges