David Goldsborough

• Lecturer at Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences

The Aarhus Convention is a globally recognised benchmark for democratic environmental governance. However, no assessment exists on whether European MPAs comply with the legal standards set out by the Convention. Here, we focus on public authorities’ websites on MPAs as tools for promoting transparency, public involvement, and democratic processes....

With increasing activities of multiple sectors in marine spaces, management of marine social–ecological systems requires more holistic approaches. Adopting such an approach, however, presents difficult institutional and disciplinary challenges. Here, we use the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) as a case study on the imple...

The development of cultural ecosystem services (CES) concept has progressed beyond the common categories of economic benefits from tourism and recreation, and yet definitions of CES remain vague and often shallow. It is necessary to develop methodologies that can more fully express the depth of meaning of non-material benefits humans receive from n...

The European Union (EU) has committed to an ambitious biodiversity recovery plan in its Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 and the Green Deal. These policies aim to halt biodiversity loss and move towards sustainable development, focusing on restoring degraded habitats, extending the network of protected areas (PAs), and improving the effectiveness of...

The ICES Workshop on Stakeholder Engagement Strategy (WKSHOES) met online 22-24 June 2021 with the objective to organize the background information needed for SCICOM and ACOM to develop a formal ICES Stakeholder Engagement Strategy. Stakeholder engagement has taken an increasingly important role in ICES. There was a strong consensus in the workshop...

The European Union (EU) has promoted maritime spatial planning (MSP) as an important tool for increasing collaboration in the management of shared European sea spaces. This chapter examines whether the 2014 MSP Directive has enhanced transboundary cohesion in MSP in the Baltic Sea and North Sea Regions. The chapter finds that MSP processes in the B...

The Workshop on Transboundary issues in Marine Spatial Planning (WKTBIMP) was held as part of the terms of reference of the Working Group on Marine Planning and Coastal Zone Management (WGMPCZM). The aim of the workshop was to identify the key transboundary issues that can undermine collaboration and coordination efforts to address them through mar...

Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor environmental condition with deteriorating trends. Despite several success stories, European policies for marine conservation fall short of being effective. Acknowledging the challe...

Executive summary To support the implementation of the Ecosystem Based approach to Management (EBM), ICES strives to provide evidence-based scientific advice and relevant management options that also assess potential trade-offs among sectors or between environmental status and human uses. To help achieve this, the Workshop on Challenges, Opportunit...

Transboundary conservation has an important, yet often undervalued, role in the international conservation regime. When applied to the legally ambiguous and interconnected marine environment this is magnified. The lack of clear guidance for transboundary marine conservation from the international conservation community exacerbates this problem, lea...

The EU enacted new legislation on regulating access to deep-sea fisheries in 2016. Two important aspects of the regulation are outstanding, namely the establishment of a list of areas where vulnerable marine ecosystems (VMEs) are known to occur or are likely to occur and the determination of the existing deep-sea fishing areas, the so-called “fishi...

The aim of this document is to provide as many sources of information in the available international instruments that may apply to marine conservation in the region. While this is not comprehensive it is extensive and provides an entry point for marine researchers to engage with legal instruments that may affect their work. This continues to be a...

The overarching focus of Working Group on Maritime Systems (WGMARS) has been on under-standing the conceptualisation and implementation of Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs) in ICES and more broadly. From 2017-2019, the Working Group reviewed academic literature and ICES documents, interviewed the chairs of the ICES Regional Seas Working Group...

The aim of this document is to provide a resource to researchers in marine conservation by giving summaries of the international instruments that may have implications for marine conservation in the MarCons region. These instruments include international agreements and conventions, regional agreements and intergovernmental sectoral agreements, and...

Conserving nature requires the management of people and managing together with people. Marine management relies on scientific knowledge and expertise but is also inherently political, as it deals with aspects of resource access. Both local knowledge of practitioners and stakeholders' world views, values, and perceptions are important, adding to the...

Cumulative human impacts have led to the degradation of marine ecosystems and the decline of biodiversity in the European and contiguous seas. Effective conservation measures are urgently needed to reverse these trends. Conservation must entail societal choices, underpinned by human values and worldviews that differ between the countries bordering...

Despite of the increasing number of studies on marine spatial planning, few have documented its applicability to developing countries where data limitation and social complexity can be constraints. Using participatory-based methods and empirical research this study assessed how applicable are the methods of MSP in the Philippines, and what are the...

Expectations about ecosystem based management (EBM) differ due to diverging perspectives about what EBM should be and how it should work. While EBM by its nature requires trade-offs to be made between ecological, economic and social sustainability criteria, the diversity of cross-sectoral perspectives, values, stakes, and the specificity of each in...

Dit onderzoek is uitgevoerd in het kader van het EVF project Uitvoeringsprogramma Brede Visie duurzame visserij in de Waddenzee . Het rapport beschrijft de bevindingen van de verkenning Toekomst van de pulsvisserij in de Waddenzee. Het onderzoek is ook relevant voor pulsvisserij in de internationale Waddenzee en de Noordzeekustzone. Het onderzoek g...

De veranderingen op zee gaan snel. Aan de ene kant neemt de wens voor bescherming van het marine milieu toe, aan de andere kant vormen goederen en diensten van de zee een groeiende bron van inkomsten. In het beheer van de zee is sprake van een veranderende rol van de overheid, met name de verdeling van regulerende overheden over schalen van lokaal...

This document deals with monitoring and evaluation aspects in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) processes. Effective monitoring and evaluation is widely recognised as a fundamental component of maritime spatial management and needs to concentrate on the most important issues potentially affecting a maritime area. For measuring performance of an imple...

toekomst wordt geschetst van natuur en landschap in Nederland tot en met 2040. Dit achtergronddocument presenteert de resultaten van een deskstudie over deze kijkrichtingen in relatie tot de ‘governance’ van de Nederlandse mariene natuur. De studie karakteriseert welke stakeholders, overheden, wet- en regelgeving en beleid relevant zijn voor marien...

Overzicht van opleidingen op het gebied van aquacultuur in Nederland

Dutch municipalities are confronted with an increased number of prescribed environmental tasks and also with a growing demand, both from the central government and environmental pressure groups, to undertake environmental activities on their own initiative. This development over-taxed the information management of most municipalities. In the past f...

Results of a study dealing with demand of employers for Geo-information specialists and the supply of educational institutes are presented. The need for a clear definition of a geo-information specialist is strong, with according content of the geo-information curricula.