coordination of activities from the rural area until the ocean aiming at a harmonized
and sustainable land-sea area. Chapter 8 focuses on marine research supporting that
CES valuation can become an extremely useful tool that can bring to the surface the
benefits derived from the cultural aspects of MPAs, while Chap. 9 depicts the key
challenges of plastic marine litter. From the analysis carried out in Chaps. 10 and 11,
it is clear that the maritime transport sector including ports not only are driving up
global temperature but are essential part of the global economies. Ports role will be
crucial in the law enforcement through reward schemes and priority entrance to ships
complying with International and European regulation. Chapter 12 presents the
circular economy approach, which can solve most of the challenges analysed in
the previous chapters, and the synergies with the smart specialization strategies. All
chapters underline the need for explicit targets and financial plans to be designed
aiming at the implementation of ambitious climate and ocean-related targets.
Keywords Socio-economic methodology · Participatory approaches · Financial
analysis · Web-based tool · Marine · Maritime · Sustainable development · Marine
litter · Policy recommendations · Sustainable oceans
13.1 Introduction
The European Commission has initiated a program called Blue Growth, which is the
EU’s long-term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime
sectors. Within this context, several European-funded projects have been developed
aiming to identify key components and useful answers to support the implementation of the European policies. This chapter summarizes the main findings of the
analysis conducted in the previous chapters and highlights the directions and opportunities for future research under the auspices of the European Commission.
European FP7 projects called MERMAID (2015) and TROPOS (2012) have
examined offshore platforms for multiuse of ocean space for energy extraction and
aquaculture, along with their advantages in a floating platform and a multipurpose
system. In Chap. 2 a socio-economic methodology for studying the social acceptance and the impacts of multiuse offshore developments is being analysed. This
methodology is really important for developers and decision-makers to understand
the views of local people and to learn about any potential concerns by assessing
the social acceptance of the offshore developments. Chapter 3 reviews and discusses
the participatory approaches employed in the MERMAID and TROPOS projects.
The discussion draws on the methods employed in each case, the objectives and the
obstacles encountered resulting in useful conclusions for participatory design. A
common financial framework that permits to obtain comparable results of the
financial performance of the different design concepts proposed in the Oceans of
Tomorrow projects and demonstrated in the book “Oceans of Tomorrow” by
Koundouri (2017) is defined in Chap. 4. The description of a decision support tool
that was designed and developed for project MERMAID is the main objective of
Chap. 5.
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and sustainable land-sea area. Chapter 8 focuses on marine research supporting that
CES valuation can become an extremely useful tool that can bring to the surface the
benefits derived from the cultural aspects of MPAs, while Chap. 9 depicts the key
challenges of plastic marine litter. From the analysis carried out in Chaps. 10 and 11,
it is clear that the maritime transport sector including ports not only are driving up
global temperature but are essential part of the global economies. Ports role will be
crucial in the law enforcement through reward schemes and priority entrance to ships
complying with International and European regulation. Chapter 12 presents the
circular economy approach, which can solve most of the challenges analysed in
the previous chapters, and the synergies with the smart specialization strategies. All
chapters underline the need for explicit targets and financial plans to be designed
aiming at the implementation of ambitious climate and ocean-related targets.
Keywords Socio-economic methodology · Participatory approaches · Financial
analysis · Web-based tool · Marine · Maritime · Sustainable development · Marine
litter · Policy recommendations · Sustainable oceans
13.1 Introduction
The European Commission has initiated a program called Blue Growth, which is the
EU’s long-term strategy to support sustainable growth in the marine and maritime
sectors. Within this context, several European-funded projects have been developed
aiming to identify key components and useful answers to support the implementation of the European policies. This chapter summarizes the main findings of the
analysis conducted in the previous chapters and highlights the directions and opportunities for future research under the auspices of the European Commission.
European FP7 projects called MERMAID (2015) and TROPOS (2012) have
examined offshore platforms for multiuse of ocean space for energy extraction and
aquaculture, along with their advantages in a floating platform and a multipurpose
system. In Chap. 2 a socio-economic methodology for studying the social acceptance and the impacts of multiuse offshore developments is being analysed. This
methodology is really important for developers and decision-makers to understand
the views of local people and to learn about any potential concerns by assessing
the social acceptance of the offshore developments. Chapter 3 reviews and discusses
the participatory approaches employed in the MERMAID and TROPOS projects.
The discussion draws on the methods employed in each case, the objectives and the
obstacles encountered resulting in useful conclusions for participatory design. A
common financial framework that permits to obtain comparable results of the
financial performance of the different design concepts proposed in the Oceans of
Tomorrow projects and demonstrated in the book “Oceans of Tomorrow” by
Koundouri (2017) is defined in Chap. 4. The description of a decision support tool
that was designed and developed for project MERMAID is the main objective of
Chap. 5.
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