State of the Environment and Spatial Planning

The State of the Environment and Spatial Planning Programme focuses on delivering tools and capacity to assess the condition of the environment and improve the management of human activities that impact on the environment. Key areas of work under this programme include:

State of the Environment reporting
Capacity building for spatial planning
Marine plastics
Participatory mapping and communication using maps
Storytelling through interactive maps

Status: In progress

Type: Programme

Tags: Collaboration Marine environment

Staff

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Programme's activities

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Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ)

Develop and pilot tools and approaches for area based planning in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ).

In progress Marine

Environmental Assessment Guidelines - a writing marathon

GRID-Arendal is managing the development of updated Integrated Enviromental Assessment guidelines for UN Environment

Completed Global

European Marine Observation and Data Network - EMODnet

Making European data available to support the Maritime Spatial Planning and the Blue Economy

In progress Marine

Gap Analysis

Gap analysis of existing data and information on rangelands and pastoralism

In progress Global

GEO-6

Every couple of years UN Environment takes the global environmental temperature.

In progress Global

H2020 BlueBRIDGE

Using cloud computing to analyse marine protected areas

Completed Global

H2020 - ResponSEAble - Ocean Literacy

ResponSEAble - Protecting the ocean: our collective responsibility, our common interest - Supporting the development of cost-effective ocean

In progress Marine

IW:LEARN

The goal of the project is to strengthen knowledge management capacity and promote scaled-up learning of disseminated experiences...

In progress Global

Mapping and communication

Developing innovative tools to communicate using maps

In progress Marine

Marine Debris Action Planner (MDAP)

The Marine Debris Action Planner (MDAP) is a project funded by Innovation Norway in which GRID-Arendal and SALT are developing a service...

In progress Marine

Marine Litter

Marine Litter!!

In progress Marine

Marine litter predictive mapping

This pilot project develops a shoreline map to define coastal areas with different likelihood of accumulating beach litter.

Completed Marine

Pacific Marine Atlases (MACBIO)

This project is providing maps and data to support marine spatial planning in the Pacific

In progress Marine

Protected Area Solutions

This IUCN-led project is a four-year collaboration that addresses Aichi Target 11.

In progress Terrestrial

Seafloor habitats

Maps of seafloor habitats are important predictors of biodiversity and a key input into marine spatial planning

In progress Marine

State of the Environment methods and development

Cost-efficient production of State of the Environment reports using the expert elicitation method

In progress Marine

Support to the Tehran Convention Process

The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed water body on Earth with a unique ecosystem with some 400 endemic species, threatened by a decline..

In progress Coastal Habitats

University Course in Marine Management

Delivery of lectures to Master student at University in Agder

In progress Marine

Related publications

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Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is sick. It suffers from algal blooms, oxygen-depleted zones, loss of biodiversity and declining fish populations.

5 months ago Story Maps

State of the Environment in the Raet National Marine Park (Southern Norway)

The report describes the application of the expert elicitation method to document the state of the environment of the Raet National Park.

1 year ago Environment in Focus

Miljøtilstanden i Raet nasjonalpark (Sør-Norge)

Formålet med denne rapporten er å beskrive hvordan en ekspertpanelvurdering kan anvendes på miljøtilstanden i Raet Nasjonalpark

1 year ago Environment in Focus

Marine Litter Vital Graphics

We all contribute to this problem. Yes, all. And we need to act now if we want to avoid living in a sea of plastic by mid-century.

2 years ago Vital Graphics Series

Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems - A lifeboat for coral reefs?

The report looks at the role Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems could play in the preservation of coral reef systems affected by bleaching.

3 years ago Monograph

Sierra Leone - State of the Marine Environment 2015

The Government of Sierra Leone recognizes the threats to the coastal and marine environment from anthropogenic sources as well as from...

3 years ago Monograph

The State of the Mediterranean Marine and Coastal Environment

The Mediterranean Action Plan (MAP) was established in 1975 as a coherent legal and institutional framework for cooperation through which...

6 years ago Monograph

Dniester river basin - Environmental Atlas

The Environmental Atlas of the Dniester Basin is the first attempt to present the environmental state of the transboundary river.

6 years ago Environment Atlas

Caspian Sea - State of Environment 2011

The first State of the Environment Report of the Caspian Sea (SoE-Report) was prepared by GRID-Arendal and presented.

7 years ago Monograph

Cookbook for State of the Environment Reporting on the Internet

GRID-Arendal's Cookbook for State of the Environment Reporting on the Internet is a 32-page booklet which provides easy-to-use methodolog...

20 years ago Monograph