Céline Jacob

• PhD in geography and spatial planning
• Researcher at Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer

While the development of maritime economic activity is increasingly encouraged, the consideration of its impacts constitutes a real challenge. The limitations of the implementation of the mitigation hierarchy have been widely discussed in scientific literature, yet data on marine biodiversity offset practices remains scarce. In this study, we inves...

Efforts to conserve biodiversity comprise a patchwork of international goals, national-level plans, and local interventions that, overall, are failing. We discuss the potential utility of applying the mitigation hierarchy, widely used during economic development activities, to all negative human impacts on biodiversity. Evaluating all biodiversity...

Increasing exploitation of marine natural resources and expansion of energy infrastructure, shipping, and aquaculture across the oceans are placing increased pressure on marine life. Biodiversity offsets, as the last stage of the mitigation hierarchy, provide an opportunity to promote a more sustainable basis for development by addressing residual...

Coastal ecosystems are recognized as important providers of ecosystem services such as carbon storage, increased fish productivity, and wave energy reduction. In a context of climate change, coastal ecosystems are exposed to erosion and subject to coastal squeeze, even as they provide natural coastal protection against extreme weather. While civil...

Although stakeholder engagement is one of the founding principles of marine spatial planning (MSP), meaningful representation of people and their connections to marine resources within marine governance is still lacking. A broad understanding of how concepts surrounding social capital and capacity is translated into MSP practice is missing. With th...

The ePEStemology database is the largest review of PES scientific research to date and addresses the following research questions: - In the history of 15 years of PES research, what are the dominant criteria used to define and assess success of PES in practice? Are there geographical patterns in defining those criteria? Where does research take pl...

Fisheries, aquaculture, and seafood transformation sectors are components of the Green Deal roadmap promoting the transformation of the European Union into a resource-efficient, climate-friendly, and competitive economy. Whilst several studies have shown these sectors' socioeconomic national contributions, the method developed in this article aimed...

Fisheries and aquaculture are becoming a focus of societal concern driven by globalization and increasing environmental degradation, mainly caused by climate change and marine litter. In response to this problem, the European Atlantic Area NEPTUNUS project aims to support and inform about the sustainability of the seafood sector, boosting the trans...

Within the European recent agenda for sustainable growth - the Green Deal - the European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan. The plan aims at not only ensuring substantial material savings throughout value chains and production processes but also generating extra added value and unlock economic opportunities. Within the Europ...

Offsetting and, more broadly speaking, the mitigation hierarchy have been widely studied in terms of decreasing the impacts of economic activities on biodiversity. There has been considerable tendency to anchor these mechanisms in science, promoting the idea that they are scientifically constructed. Building on Quebec's recent regulatory changes co...

Most research studies related to biodiversity offsetting have focused on governance systems already in place in the terrestrial realm – these studies tend to rely on an approach of organizational economics, in particular in relation to mitigation banking schemes. In this study, emerging marine offsetting governance systems has been analyzed using t...

The mitigation hierarchy has been at the heart of French environmental regulations since the EIA process was introduced in 1976. Its application, however, has been patchy, especially concerning compensation for impacts on wildlife. New mechanisms have been put in place and trialed over the last few years so that France now has one of the most compr...

The mitigation hierarchy is increasingly used in environmental policy as a way of reconciling economic development and biodiversity conservation. The principle of the mitigation hierarchy is to avoid, reduce and offset the environmental impacts arising from development projects by providing ecological gains through conservation or restoration measu...

The Visual_HEA software tool was created in 2006 to facilitate the assessment of losses and gains in ecosystem services related to compensatory mitigation under the United States National Resource Damage Assessment Act (NRDA). Habitat Equivalency Analysis (HEA) is an ecological equivalence assessment method under NRDA that can be performed using th...

La réglementation actuelle, reposant sur la loi de 1976 sur la protection de la nature, impose aux maîtres d’ouvrage de respecter le principe « éviter – réduire – compenser » lors de la conception de les projets d’exploitation et d’aménagement. Lorsqu’un projet n’a pu ni éviter ni réduire les impacts environnementaux, il est nécessaire de définir d...

Messages clés · La compensation doit recourir à de meilleures pratiques de restauration s’appuyant sur la littérature grise et les projets existants et sur des méthodes d’évaluation standardisées. · Des solutions alternatives (out-of-kind, actions de préservation) sont de plus en plus utilisées mais les risques associés doivent être analysés. · Le...

Although the limitations of implementing the mitigation hierarchy have been widely discussed in scientific literature, these studies have drawn mainly on feedback concerning terrestrial ecosystems. In the case of development projects in marine and coastal environments, certain issues must be tackled to improve existing practice. This article focuse...

Resume : Dans la baie d’Aigues-Mortes (Mediterranee Occidentale), les herbiers de Posidonies subissent de fortes pressions anthropiques et ont vu leur population diminuer de moitie depuis 10 ans. Les services ecosystemiques rendus, notamment pour la biodiversite, sont toutefois tres importants. Dans cette communication, nous nous interessons au ser...

The idea that development impacts on biodiversity could be offset to achieve no net loss of biodiversity has been heavily criticized. While it is denounced as a license to trash by some, it is seen as an unacceptable burden or even a new tax by others. In this context, in 2012 and 2013, the French Ministry in charge of the environment published gui...

Seaweed industry in France

http://www.netalgae.eu/uploadedfiles/NE_guide_fr.pdf

La filière des macro-algues en France. Rapport d'étude. NETALGAE - Interreg IVb

http://www.netalgae.eu/uploadedfiles/NE_synthse_fr.pdf

http://www.netalgae.eu/uploadedfiles/NE_poster_fr.pdf

Cellule Etudes et Transfert

The PEGASO project (People for Ecosystem based Governance in Assessing Sustainable development of Ocean and coast) develops an ICZM governance platform wich aims at producing integrated assessments in support of policy making decision for the sustainable development of the Mediterranean coastal zone. This paper presents the socio-economic approach...

1. Les différentes catégories de coûts identifiés 1.1. Définition et typologie des coûts La biodiversité représente l'ensemble des entités appartenant au monde du vivant – gènes, populations, espèces, écosystèmes – mais aussi les interactions qui lient ces éléments entre eux et en structurent l'évolution. Les coûts de suivi et d'information corresp...

1. Problèmes posés par les organismes pathogènes microbiens 1.1. Origine et impacts des organismes pathogènes microbiens Du point de vue de leur origine, les organismes pathogènes microbiens (OPM) présents dans le milieu marin sont de deux sortes : les OPM autochtones, naturellement présents dans le milieu, et les OPM issus de contaminations extéri...