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The marine conservation landscape in Europe: knowledge support to policy implementation and conservation action

Abstract

The conservation of the marine environment is an important topic worldwide and in Europe alike. Marine habitats cover a considerable area of the European territory and offer a variety of ecosystem services for food, human health and livelihoods that are to be explored in a sustainable way. To adequately support initiatives to preserve the marine environment at the European level, a robust, geographically representative and reliable knowledge base is needed. In this chapter, we describe the general framework of governance bodies, regulation and knowledge support, production and dissemination initiatives influencing and informing marine conservation action in Europe. Although several constraints identified in the general literature concerning the knowledge-implementation pipeline can also be translated into the European context, we conclude that knowledge production and the network of initiatives and opportunities available for data and knowledge dissemination is well developed for marine conservation in Europe. We recognize, however, the need to increase coordination and greater harmonization of approaches, geographical coverage of data, and avoidance of redundancy.

Bibliographic citation

Araújo, R.; Cardoso, A.C.; Tornero, V.; Zampoukas, N. (2021). The marine conservation landscape in Europe: knowledge support to policy implementation and conservation action, in: Ferreira, C.C. et al. Closing the knowledge-implementation gap in conservation science: Interdisciplinary evidence transfer across sectors and spatiotemporal scales. Wildlife research monographs, : pp. 323-370. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81085-6_12

Topic

Marine