Yaiza Fernández-Palacios

Yaiza Fernández-Palacios
Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria | ULPGC · BIOCON (IU-ECOAQUA)

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Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) has received increasing attention from policy-makers around the world as an ecosystem-based approach to the waters under the jurisdiction of coastal states, with the aim of enhancing socioeconomic development while promoting environmental protection and conservation. However, this planning process requires abundant a...
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El excesivo desarrollo del modelo tradicional de turismo de sol y playa, que basa el atractivo turístico en el valor del litoral como espacio natural, ha puesto en peligro la propia existencia de la actividad turística en nuestras costas. La necesidad de diversificación de la oferta de ocio en los destinos litorales encuentra en el turismo marino u...
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The global economy is increasingly focusing on the Oceans to meet its needs, for which maritime spatial planning is being fostered to promote this is done sustainably. Thus, assessing the current state and future development trends of the maritime sectors is key to evaluating the performance of the planning process. This is the aim of this study, i...
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This document presents the conceptual framework proposed to be applied to identify and structure the data necessary for the development of maritime spatial plans. The MSP data framework provides the structure to organise input spatial information and data that needs to be considered within the full MSP process. The required input data has been orga...
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During the process of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), the collection of the necessary data to determine the current state of the areas to be managed is the basis for the application of scientific methodologies that provide the appropriate technical support. Nowadays, with the Big Data booming, where there is a lot of information available on the int...
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Directive 2014/89/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 23 July 2014 and, in the case of Spain its transposition through Royal Decree 367/2017, of 8 April 2017, establish the legal framework for marine management plans. These plans will determine the spatial and temporal distribution of the corresponding activities and uses, existing...
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The relationship between the Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) and the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) process has been analyzed to understand which is the dominant process or where there is an overlap. In this contribution, we used the case study of the three archipelagos: Azores, Madeira and the Canary Islands, included in the...
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The main challenge of PLASMAR Project is addressing the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU (MSPD) within the present framework of emerging maritime activities linked to Blue Growth development and within the limits of ecosystem-based management. The main goal is to provide a pilot zoning, for the Exclusive Economic...
Technical Report
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This study lists the requirements of the EU environmental directives that apply on marine and coastal areas and presents the current state of play of the implementation, including the actions that have been applied for the Canary Islands. It is necessary to understand what is already done due the implementation of the environmental policies, so it...
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Environmental planning cycles are defined with clear deadlines for the implementation of the measures required by legal instruments and which are related to reporting obligations. The Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) is an environmental planning legislation, formally adopted by European Union in 2008. It is an European legal in...
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This report is the deliverable of PLASMAR Project activity 211a: Finding the balance of Blue Growth Sustainable Development within Ecosystem Approach, within which partners analysed the presence, situation and main forecasted trends of the maritime sectors present in the archipelagos of Madeira, Azores and Canaries. This first project activity inte...
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En el marco del las actividades de cooperación inter- nacional de la Red de Prácticas Costeras (CoPraNet), una red INTERREG IIIC, se ha logrado el desarrollo de un programa de calidad internacional para destinos turísticos costeros – QualityCoast –. El Programa QualityCoast para destinos costeros certifica a un municipio, condado o región que demu...
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Implementation of sustainable tourism practices is influenced by the availability and accessibility of relevant data; both as a means of progress evaluation and providing information to key stakeholders, e.g. regulators, service providers and visitors. A number of European coastal sites, of differing tourism profiles, were examined in the context o...
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This paper describes the implementation of a GIS application named PARQMAR, which collects environmental, biological and human uses parameters from two Natura 2000 MPAs in the South of Gran Canaria Island, Canary Islands, Spain. The GIS system has a client-server structure with access to multiple data repositories, which are fed by the different kn...
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Las especiales características oceanográficas de las aguas del archipiélago canario han condicionado el establecimiento de una gran variedad de ecosistemas y la presencia de una importante diversidad de especies organizadas en comunidades singulares. Hasta el momento se han reconocido 5.232 especies pertenecientes a 1.117 familias y a un total de t...

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