Chapter 5
An Interdisciplinary Web-Based Decision
Support System for Socio-economic
Assessment of Marine Investments: The
MERMAID Project
Evita Mailli, Petros Xepapadeas, and Phoebe Koundouri
Abstract This chapter (this work has received funding from the European Union’s
seventh Framework Program under grant agreement N
288,710) describes a decision support tool that was designed and developed for the MERMAID project
(EU-FP7), which has already indicated in this book developed concepts for nextgeneration offshore platforms for multi-use of ocean space for energy extraction,
aquaculture, and platform-related transport. Specifically, it evaluated the potential
and challenges of building multi-use offshore platforms (MUOPs). The MERMAID
project considers four offshore study sites for multi-use offshore platforms, Atlantic
Ocean site, Wadden-North Sea site, Baltic Sea site, and Mediterranean Sea site. Each
site is considered in terms of its available resources and unique features. This tool
was part of the framework for assessing the socio-economic impact of MUOPs and,
as such, utilized web and data analytics state-of-the-art technologies in order to
provide researchers with a framework for evaluating feasibility and potential of each
MUOP’s proposed design and location.
E. Mailli
Department of Informatics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
P. Xepapadeas
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics
and Business, Athens, Greece
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
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An Interdisciplinary Web-Based Decision
Support System for Socio-economic
Assessment of Marine Investments: The
MERMAID Project
Evita Mailli, Petros Xepapadeas, and Phoebe Koundouri
Abstract This chapter (this work has received funding from the European Union’s
seventh Framework Program under grant agreement N
288,710) describes a decision support tool that was designed and developed for the MERMAID project
(EU-FP7), which has already indicated in this book developed concepts for nextgeneration offshore platforms for multi-use of ocean space for energy extraction,
aquaculture, and platform-related transport. Specifically, it evaluated the potential
and challenges of building multi-use offshore platforms (MUOPs). The MERMAID
project considers four offshore study sites for multi-use offshore platforms, Atlantic
Ocean site, Wadden-North Sea site, Baltic Sea site, and Mediterranean Sea site. Each
site is considered in terms of its available resources and unique features. This tool
was part of the framework for assessing the socio-economic impact of MUOPs and,
as such, utilized web and data analytics state-of-the-art technologies in order to
provide researchers with a framework for evaluating feasibility and potential of each
MUOP’s proposed design and location.
E. Mailli
Department of Informatics at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
P. Xepapadeas
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics
and Business, Athens, Greece
P. Koundouri (*)
School of Economics and ReSEES Laboratory, Athens University of Economics and Business,
Athens, Greece
United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network Europe, Paris, France
EIT Climate-KIC Hub Greece, ATHENA Research and Innovation Center, Athens, Greece
ICRE8: International Centre for Research on the Environment and the Economy, Athens, Greece
e-mail: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
P. Koundouri (ed.), The Ocean of Tomorrow, Environment & Policy 57,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56847-4_5
83