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Marine Resources Damage Assessment and Sustainable Management of the North Sea
www.belspo.be/belspo/fedra/proj.asp?l=en&cod=mn/dd1/007
Parent project: Research action SPSD-I: Sustainable management of the North Sea, more
Funder identifier: MN/DD1/007 (Other contract id)
Acronym: MARE-DASM
Period: October 1998 till September 2002
Status: Completed

Thesaurus terms Modelling; Pollution
To be assured of a high standard of living riparians of the North Sea make different uses of the North Sea. In order to achieve a sustainable use of the North Sea, it is necessary to restrict the harmful use of it. In recent years a lot of national and international measures and principles to protect the ecosystem of the North Sea were adopted. In the new OSPAR Convention of 1992 all North Sea states and the European Commission agreed to use the precautionary principle and the polluter pays principle for the protection of the marine environment. The implementation of these measures and principles often causes practical problems. The research done in the framework of MARE-DASM will propose a solution for these problems.

The project has two main objectives who have a different goal but the results of the first objective (theme 1) will partly be integrated to obtain the second objective (theme 2).

Theme 1: the socio-economic cost of a degradation of the marine environment.
The first objective of the project is to make an identification and quantification of different factors contributing to the degradation of the marine environment in the Belgian part of the North Sea (Laboratory of Environmental Toxicology and Aquatic Ecology, Prof. Dr. C. Janssen). This identification and quantification must be the basis for the evaluation of the direct and indirect economic and social costs of degradation, accidentally or permantly (Maritime Institute, Prof. Dr. F. Maes, with subcontractor Environmental Consultancy and Assistance (ECOLAS), Dr. P. Vanhaecke). The cost of degradation will be compared with the economic and social profits of the use of the Belgian part of the North Sea by the current generation, in order to come to propositions of measures to be taken by the government to guarantee a sustainable use of the sea for the future generations (Maritime Institute, Prof. Dr. F. Maes).

Theme 2: The risk of the accidental oil/chemical pollution of the marine environment.
The second objective of the project aims at making an estimation and prediction models of the potential damage of the ecosystems of the Belgian part of the North Sea caused by oil and other chemical products, as well as the socio-economic impact of this damage in a number of selected cases (Management Unit of the Mathematic Models of the North Sea, Dr. G. Pichot). The mathematical determination of the damage must enable the development of technical and legal procedures that allow to evaluate the degradation of the marine environment and to recover it financially on the polluter (Centre for Environmental Law, Prof. Dr. H. Bocken (national law) and Maritime Institute, Prof. Dr. F. Maes (international law)).

Activities

Task I "identification and quantification of different factors contributing to the degradation of the marine environment" will study, next to the identification and quantification, the distribution of the contaminants in the environmental compartments in order to fine-tune the Biological Effects Submodel for the long term effects. The results of task I should enable to estimate the degradation of the marine environment. This estimation is a starting point for a part of the research that will be done in task II "the development of socio-economic assessment criteria to determine in an objective way the cost of degradation", namely the quantification of damage to the environment based on use values. For the socio-economic assessment criteria the quantification of environmental damage based on option and existence values (Contingent Valuation Method) will also be used.

Research from tasks I and II will contribute to the research in tasks III and IV. In task III "the development and evaluation of measures that need to be taken by the government in order to guarantee a sustainable use of the sea", measures will be proposed allowing Belgium to obtain an optimal integrated policy and sustainable use of the North Sea, taking into account the social costs and the political and legal-technical feasibility. The uses at sea will be set out on a priority scale in function of their degradation impact on the marine environment of the North Sea (cf. task I). The different uses will also be given an economic and social value, varying according to the different uses. Using the policy option "sustainable management" as a starting point, policy measures for every use will be proposed, taking into account the efficiency, the social costs and benefits that can be expected for the socio-economic groups and the possibility for the government to take action. The ecological effects (task I) and the defined socio-economic assessment criteria (task II) will be integrated into the mathematical model (task IV "to develop and evaluate mathematical models assessing the risks bound to accidental spillage of oil and other chemicals at sea and the damage they can cause, at the environmental and socio-economic levels"). The mathematical model will be developed by the Management Unit of the Mathematical Models of the North Sea (MUMM), but is however limited to the assessment of risks for environmental damage in case of accidental discharges of oil and other chemical products. Task V contains "the development of technical and legal procedures that allow to evaluate the degradation of the marine environment and to recover it financially on the polluter". On the one hand we are dealing with national and international liability law, with the polluter pays principle as a starting point and on the other hand with legal-technical and administrative procedures in order to evaluate the degradation (environmental damage as well as disruption to the environment) financially and to recover it from the polluter.
  • Maes, F.; Janssen, C.R.; Pichot, G.; Bocken, H. (Ed.) (2004). Beoordeling van de mariene degradatie in de Noordzee en voorstellen voor een duurzaam beheer - MARE-DASM. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 962 pp., more
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  • Van Grieken, R.; Baeyens, W.F.J.; Van Langenhove, H.; Wollast, R. (2004). Biogeochemistry of nutrients, metals and organic micropollutants in the North Sea. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 87, app. pp., more
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  • Baeyens, W.F.J.; Parmentier, K.; Brion, N.; Leermakers, M.; De Galan, S.; Van Grieken, R.; Joos, P.; Injuk, J.; Wollast, R.; Vanderborght, J.; Piron, C. (2002). Evaluatie van de chemische contaminatie van de Noordzee en schatting van de verontreiniging van land: samenvatting van het onderzoek = Quality status and terrestrial inputs for the North Sea: summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". DWTC/SSTC: Brussel. 12 pp., more
  • Baeyens, W.F.J.; Van Grieken, R.; Wollast, R. (Ed.) (2002). Evaluatie van de chemische contaminatie van de Noordzee en schatting van de verontreiniging van land = Evaluation de la contamination chimique de la mer du Nord et estimation de la pollution terrigène. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 502 pp., more
  • Sorgeloos, P. (2002). Evaluatie van de kwaliteit van tarbotpootvis op het herstockeringsucces in de Noordzee: synthese van het onderzoek = Evaluation of the quality of turbot fry on the stock enhancement success in the North Sea: summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federale Diensten voor Wetenschappelijke, Technische en Culturele Aangelegenheden (DWTC): Brussel. 5 pp., more
  • Dubois, P.; Coteur, G.; Gosselin, P.; Wantier, P.; Danis, B.; Chambost, Y.; Gillan, D.; Joly, G.; Pernet, P.; Radenac, G.; Dutrieux, S.; Postiaux, P.; Cotret, O.; Teyssie, J.-L.; Fowler, S.W.; Villeneuve, J.-P.; Cattini, C.; Bustamante, P.; Flammang, R.; Jangoux, M.; Warnau, M. (2004). Impact des métaux lourds et des polychlorobiphényles sur les organismes de Mer du Nord. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 60 pp., more
  • Pichot, G.; Donnay, J.-P.; Van Dyck, J. (2004). Integrated and dynamical oceanographic data management - IDOD. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. [Diff. Pag.] pp., more
  • Degraer, S.; Van Lancker, V.; Moerkerke, G.; Van Hoey, G.; Vincx, M.; Jacobs, P.; Henriet, J.-P. (2002). Intensieve opvolging van de evolutie van een beschermd benthisch habitat (HABITAT): samenvatting van het onderzoek = Intensive evaluation of the evolution of a protected benthic habitat (HABITAT): summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". DWTC/SSTC: Brussel. 9 pp., more
  • Debacker, V.; Coignoul, F.; Das, K.; Haelters, J.; Holsbeek, L.; Jacques, T.; Jauniaux, T.; Joiris, C.R.; Stienen, E.; Tavernier, E.; Van Waeyenberge, J.; Bouquegneau, J.-M. (2004). North Sea seabirds and marine mammals: pathology and ecotoxicology = De zeevogels en zeezoogdieren van de Noordzee: pathologie en ecotoxicologie. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 185 pp., more
  • Lanckneus, J.; Van Lancker, V.; Moerkerke, G.; Van den Eynde, D.; Fettweis, M.; De Batist, M.; Jacobs, P. (2002). Onderzoek van natuurlijke zandtransporten op het Belgisch continentaal plat. BUDGET (Beneficial usage of data and geo-environmental techniques): samenvatting van het onderzoek = Research on natural sand transports on the Belgian continental shelf. BUDGET (Beneficial usage of data and geo-environmental techniques): Summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". DWTC/SSTC: Brussel. 9 pp., more
  • De Pauw, E. (2002). Ontwikkeling van analysemethoden voor koolwaterstoffen en organische micropolluenten in het mariene milieu: samenvatting van het onderzoek = Development of methods for the analysis of hydrocarbons and organic micro-pollutants in the marine environment: summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federale Diensten voor Wetenschappelijke, Technische en Culturele Aangelegenheden (DWTC): Brussel. 5 pp., more
  • Lancelot, C.; Rousseau, V.; Becquevort, S.; Parent, J.-Y.; Déliat, G.; Leblanc, C.; Daro, M.-H.; Gasparini, S.; Antajan, E.; Meyer, A.; Ruddick, K.; Ozer, J.; Spitz, Y. (2004). Study and modeling of eutrophication-related changes in coastal planktonic food-webs: a contribution of the AMORE (Advanced MOdeling and Research on Eutrophication) consortium. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid = Belgian Science Policy = Politique Scientifique Fédérale: Brussel. 69 pp., more
  • Bouquegneau, J.-M.; Coignoul, F.; Das, K.; Debacker, V.; Haelters, J.; Holsbeek, L.; Jauniaux, T.; Joiris, C.; Stienen, E.; Tavernier, J.; Van Waeyenberge, J. (2002). Zeevogels en zeezoogdieren van de Noordzee: pathologie en ecotoxicologie: samenvatting van het onderzoek = North Sea seabirds and marine mammals: pathology and ecotoxicology: summary of the research. Scientific Support Plan for a Sustainable Development Policy (SPSD I): Programme "Sustainable Management of the North Sea" = Plan voor wetenschappelijke ondersteuning van een beleid gericht op duurzame ontwikkeling (PODO I): Programma "Duurzaam beheer van de Noordzee". Federale Diensten voor Wetenschappelijke, Technische en Culturele Aangelegenheden (DWTC): Brussel. 9 pp., more