SEANERGY - a spatial tool to facilitate the increase of synergies and to minimise conflicts between human uses at sea

摘要: Abstract With expanding human uses at sea, the objective of maritime spatial planning (MSP) to promote sustainable coexistence between marine becomes an increasingly challenging task. In order assess options, both use-use interactions and use-environment are important explore. Tools for doing cumulative impact assessments (CIA) on environment provide a means spatially exploring environmental impacts. Finding inspiration in such ecosystem-based approaches while drawing pairwise use compatibility knowledge from existing literature, approach model potential synergies conflicts through expert-based scoring system is presented implemented SEANERGY, ArcMap-based opensource toolbox. A test based Baltic Sea GIS-data demonstrates how SEANERGY supplements CIA analyses with about synergies, conflicts, their extents, useful optimising space MSP without putting too much pressure environment.