SIMWESTMED - Cumulative Effects Assessment using DESEASION - In the Var County area, France (R19)
Description
Component: C 1.3 Support for Member States' implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning
Sub‐component: C 1.3.6. Establish Case Studies on Approaches to MSP Implementation
Deliverable: Var Case Study
The knowledge of the marine environment is a baseline for the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning. It is of major importance to understand the complex interactions between activities and environment, and within activities, in order to organize activities while taking into account the needs of an economical development, and of a good ecological status.
The use of the decision tool named “DESEASION” was tested during the project SIMWESTMED, in the Var Case Study, to implement and spatialize a rules-based system based on pressures and impacts models. DESEASION tool is a hosting platform integrating GIS functions, in which scientific can implement evaluation models.
As the tool is in a development phase, the main challenge was to confront it to a real case study. This factsheet provides a brief description of the steps of cumulative impacts evaluation using DESEASION, starting from data taken from www.medtrix.com, and models coming from used came from Holon et al.,2015. In this first attempt and facing to the difficulty of dataset collection, this test is limited to 3 anthropogenic pressures (agriculture, anchoring, urbanization) occurring in the Var region in France and one ecosystem (Posidonia seagrass), in GIS format files.
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