Søren Qvist Eliasen

• M.SSc., Ph.D
• Professor (Associate) at Aalborg University

This paper analyses challenges and enablers for integrating a transboundary land-sea interaction (LSI) perspective into marine spatial planning (MSP) practice as experienced in the Baltic Sea Region. Collaborative research results from the Pan Baltic Scope project indicate that LSI remains an amorphous concept, particularly within a transboundary M...

This article examines whether the concept of territorial governance (TG) accurately captures the nature of governance and policymaking in transboundary marine spatial planning (TMSP) activities in the Baltic Sea Region. The focus of analysis is on the DG Mare–funded Baltic SCOPE and Pan Baltic Scope projects, which brought together key marine spati...

Maritime spatial planning (MSP) needs tools to facilitate discussions and manage spatial data in collaborative workshops that involve actors with various backgrounds and expertise. However, the reported use of spatial tools in real‐world MSP is sparse. A better understanding is needed of how geographic information systems (GIS) can effectively supp...

In the European Union, Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) has been regarded as a means of promoting the sustainable growth of the blue economy. Consequently, where the planning outcomes affect the business operations in marine areas, commercial and industry stakeholders should have an important role in the planning process. However, the business persp...

The presentation summarises findings regarding stakeholder involvement in Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea Region. The presentation is based on the Handbook: Process, Methods and Tools for Stakeholder Involvement in Maritime Spatial Planning.

The report assesses digital tools for decision support and stakeholder involvement in Maritime Spatial Planning, developed within the BONUS BASMATI project. The report addresses three main questions: 1) What does the tool seek to achieve, the main user and application of the tool? 2) What are the lessons learned from tool development and testing so...

The handbook addresses Maritime Spatial Planning. It provides practitioners with a framework for systematically thinking about Stakeholder Involvement in the MSP process. The ideas and approaches to stakeholder involvement outlined are based on first-hand experiences from planners in the Baltic Sea Region and cover the whole of the MSP policy cycle...

Successful maritime spatial planning processes require stake-holder engagement and participation, thus requiring tools that support collaboration. Communication-driven spatial decision support systems are designed to facilitate decision making processes of complex spatial problems and are therefore suited for this task, but there are unresolved que...

Rigid fisheries management frameworks often leave fishers with limited possibilities and incentives to adjust the selectivity of their gears to the specific fishing conditions. Implementation of the landing obligation in European fisheries emphasizes fishers need to flexibility in which gear to use to be able to match the selectivity of the gear to...

The report focuses on the economic, employment and other socio-economic consequences of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union (hereafter referred to as Brexit) for the four ports and communities of Thyborøn, Hanstholm, Hirtshals and Skagen. In this regard the Brexit consequences are only the effects on the communities from the possible loss...

The 2013 Common Fisheries Policy introduced a landing obligation on a range of species, bringing more focus on the full accountability of all catches. To investigate the potentials and challenges of these paradigm shifts, a 6-months unrestricted gear' trial was performed in Denmark in 2015. Twelve trawlers were challenged to test their own solution...

The European fisheries management is currently undergoing a fundamental change in the handling of catches of commercial fisheries with the implementation of the 2013 Common Fisheries Policy. One of the main objectives of the policy is to end the practice of discarding in the EU by 2019. However, for such changes to be successful, it is vital to ens...

This article reviews early experiences with what is commonly referred to as 'regionalisation'. Initially, the article briefly recalls the shortcomings of the traditional, highly centralised governance structure of the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union, for which regionalisation was widely perceived as a solution, while at the same time...

Discard of unwanted catches are common in European fisheries, but reducing or banning this has been given high priority in the proposal for the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy. Although many technical regulations have been introduced to limit unwanted catches, there is little understanding of the underlying socio-economic and institutional in...

A crucial issue for the new EU common fisheries policy is how to solve the discard problem. Through a study of the institutional set up and the arrangements for solving the discard problem in Denmark, the Faroe Islands, Iceland and Norway, the article identifies the discard problem as related to both natural, other material and to cultural conditio...

Based upon a large-scale survey and case studies of innovation we explore patterns of innovation activities in the Danish agricultural, forestry and fishery industries. Our primary focus areas are the sources and capabilities of innovation. We demonstrate that despite the fact that this industry is often regarded as low-tech there are still substan...

The waters surrounding the Nordic countries are rich in fish resources. Up to this date fisheries has been among the most important productive sectors in the Nordic economies, and in the Faroe Islands and Greenland it is by far the most important sector. Management of marine fisheries has over time had various objectives in the Nordic countries, ra...

The research was carried out to investigate the management costs of selected European fisheries. First, the literature was reviewed for existing information, second, interviews were performed of experts from the countries of the case studies. The collected information from the case studies was used to assess the management regime innovations and ch...

Even though a large share of the current economic discourse is heavily emphasizing the knowledge based economy the primary industry is still important in several respects. The broad research question of this paper is whether our current innovation theory is also applica-ble to the primary industry. The paper is based upon a large-scale survey and 5...