Addressing transboundary conservation challenges through marine spatial prioritization

Conservation Biology : the Journal of the Society for Conservation Biology
Elena GissiHugh P Possingham

Abstract

The Adriatic and Ionian Region is an important area for both strategic maritime development and biodiversity conservation in the European Union (EU). However, given that both EU and non-EU countries border the sea, multiple legal and regulatory frameworks operate at different scales, which can hinder the coordinated long-term sustainable development of the region. Transboundary marine spatial planning can help overcome these challenges by building consensus on planning objectives and making the trade-offs between biodiversity conservation and its influence on economically important sectors more explicit. We address this challenge by developing and testing 4 spatial prioritization strategies with the decision-support tool Marxan, which meets targets for biodiversity conservation while minimizing impacts to users. We evaluated these strategies in terms of how priority areas shift under different scales of target setting (e.g., regional vs. country level). We also examined the trade-off between cost-efficiency and how equally solutions represent countries and maritime industries (n = 14) operating in the region with the protection-equality metric. We found negligible differences in where priority conservation areas were located wh...Continue Reading

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Sep 25, 2019·Ecological Applications : a Publication of the Ecological Society of America·Gil RilovStelios Katsanevakis
Oct 10, 2020·The Science of the Total Environment·Elena GissiStelios Katsanevakis
Mar 20, 2021·Journal of Environmental Management·Roberto CarlucciElena Gissi
May 2, 2021·The Science of the Total Environment·Chiara VenierJennifer McGowan

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