Presentation about Maritime Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea and the Plan Bothnia test case. I gave it as part of the Erasmus Mundus Master Course on Maritime Spatial Planning in Seville (Spain) 3-6 February 2014
5. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
6. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
7. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
8. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
9. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Shipping accidents (2009)
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
10. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Shipping accidents (2009)
Illegal oil spills (2009)
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
11. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Shipping accidents (2009)
Illegal oil spills (2009)
Fisheries (Surface and mid. gear 2007)
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
12. The Baltic Sea:
Really?
a quiet corner of
Northern Europe?
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Shipping accidents (2009)
Illegal oil spills (2009)
Fisheries (Surface and mid. gear 2007)
Shipping density (2009)
and much more...
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
13. The Baltic Sea:
Not really...
Really?
a quiet corner of
The Baltic Sea is busy
Northern Europe?
– and getting busier!
Oil rigs
Wind farms (current and projects)
Baltic Sea Protected Areas
Natura 2000
Shipping accidents (2009)
Illegal oil spills (2009)
Fisheries (Surface and mid. gear 2007)
Shipping density (2009)
and much more...
Manuel Frias. Data available in HELCOM GIS
18. ”...develop by 2010 marine spatial planning
principles based on the Ecosystem Approach...”
”To this en WE ADOPT
HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9...”
19. HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9
• Develop MSP broad-scale principles
• Fill in ____ gaps in spatial ____
• Solve access to ____
• Provide relevant ____
• Develop further HELCOM GIS as a ____source
• Carry out consultations on activities with
transboundary negative effect on environment
20. HELCOM RECOMMENDATION 28E/9
• Develop MSP broad-scale principles
• Fill in ____ gaps in spatial ____
data
data
• Solve access to ____
data
data
• Provide relevant ____
• Develop further HELCOM GIS as a data
____source
• Carry out consultations on activities with
transboundary negative effect on environment
22. Sustainable management
Ecosystem approach
Long term perspective and objectives
Precautionary Principle
Participation and Transparency
High quality data and information basis
Transnational coordination and consultation
10
principles
Coherent terrestrial and maritime spatial planning
Planning adapted to characteristics and special conditions at different areas
Continuous planning
Want to know the detail? http://goo.gl/psCloI
32. 50% Norwegian
50% Finnish
Marine Biologist
Master course of Law
Speaks Japanese!
100% Spanish
Living in Finland
Wife: Swedish-speaking Finn
Geographer
GIS and data visualization freak
Lead partner:
an exotic cultural
coctel
Qperello
33.
34. DG MARE
Co-funded under European
Integrated Maritime Policy
December 2010
May 2012
Phase 1
Phase 2
Data collection
Spatial Plan
46. ”The more people that know your idea
the more powerful it becomes” Seth Godin
Value of the creator
Number of people who know your idea
Adapted from Seth Godin
First a short introduction about the editors of the Plan Bothnia publication and the members of the lead partner, Helcom. We think the lead partner team froms an exotic coctel!
Planning is solving problems. So we need to start first IDENTIFYING the problems. To do that we need DATA. To start a plan first we need to know what data we have available. Data is crucial and in the beginning of this project we didn’t have almost any. We started almost from an ”empty” sea. I say ”almost” because luckily we had HELCOM. HELCOM is the best example of an open regional database. We got a lot of data to start the project but we needed more and more specific for the Bothnian Sea.
Thanks to these people we have maps like this. This map shows where fisher main fish herring in the Baltic Sea. Herring is the most important fish on the Bothnian Sea. Most catches in the Baltic Sea take place here. This data is unique. There is nothing with such detail in the whole Baltic Sea area. It’s made with VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) and catch logs from fish boats. Our Swedish partner created it.
Another example is this map showing maritime traffic. We have to analyse where the main route are, whether traffic is increasing or decrasing and the possibility of new roures in the future.
I showed you that we have tons of data, should we just keep it for ourselves? From the beginning we thought that it would be best to share our data and processes. Why? Because we think that we all benefit from sharing data and being open. There is no point of keeping all the knowledge for ourselves.