Introduction#

The Ecological-Socio-Economic management framework (ESE) is a tool-based step-by-step guidance for enhancing protection and restoration of marine ecosystems and biodiversity and integration with MSP. The framework is conceived as a user-oriented guidance, where the entry points are the purposes, the needs and the objective of the main users. The expected users of the framework are MSP authorities and marine planners, environmental authorities, MPA managers, decision maker involved in marine and coastal management. The entry point to the framework are management questions: the ESE framework presents several questions the user can select on the basis of her/his management needs. Based on the type of question, the user can navigate through the solutions offered by the different ESE modules and other outputs from the MSP4BIO project, namely:

  • ESE1 Ecological Toolkit

  • ESE2 - Criteria for the representation of the social and economic dimension of MPAs

  • ESE3 - Trade-offs method for protections and restoration in MSP

  • ESE3 - Nature-inclusive operation of blue economy sectors

  • Knowledge from WP2: data, geoportals and existing criteria

  • Policy solutions from WP6.

The knowledge from the above components is made available through a number of Practices (i.e operative instructions) that users can follow in order to address their questions through the application of ecological and socio-economic criteria and tools. The ESE framework also provides the user with a list measures (i.e. good practices) dealing with mainstreaming marine protection in maritime sectors and MSP.

ESE Elements

Fig. 1 ESE Elements#

ESE Integrations

Fig. 2 ESE Integrations#