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Dariush Ashtab, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Parviz Jokar, Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksander V. Semenov
Protected areas are referred to around the world as the basis of conservation strategies. Designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to preserve marine biodiversity and protect species, habitats in the seas, and oceans. The simulated annealing algor...
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Vasiliki I. Chalastani, Andreas Pantelidis, Elissavet Feloni, Andreas Papadimitriou, Christina N. Tsaimou, Olympia Nisiforou and Vasiliki K. Tsoukala
Small fishing harbours substantially contribute to coastal economies as they support not only fishing but also tourism activities. They are located at the land?sea interface and are considered vulnerable infrastructure affected by the increased human act...
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Tzu-Hsun Lin and Ray-Yeng Yang
Floating offshore wind turbines (FOWTs) are one of the innovative solutions to achieve net-zero emissions. Given that Taiwan has abundant wind power resources in its western waters and wind farms are evaluated as potential sites, a strategic emphasis on ...
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Jeong-Seok Lee, Tae-Hoon Kim and Yong-Gil Park
The increase in maritime traffic and vessel size has strengthened the need for economical and safe maritime transportation networks. Currently, ship path planning is based on past experience and shortest route usage. However, the increasing complexity of...
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Jingwu Ma, Renfeng Ma, Qi Pan, Xianjun Liang, Jianqing Wang and Xinxin Ni
With the rapid development of urbanization and industrialization, human activities have caused marine pollution in three ways: land source, air source, and sea source, leading to the problem of marine environments. Remote sensing, with its wide coverage ...
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Yanhong Lin, Faming Huang, Yang Zhang, Qi Wang, Jinliang Huang, Qiuming Chen and Xiongzhi Xue
Planning and zoning of marine areas is a common practice worldwide. In China, marine major function-oriented zoning (MMFOZ) is an effective geographical method for ensuring sustainable marine resource and ecosystems development; however, ecosystem-based ...
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Anastasia Patera, Zoi Pataki and Dimitra Kitsiou
Marine spatial planning (MSP) has been established as the appropriate policy framework to study and resolve conflicts that arise among various activities. A pre-requisite for the successful implementation of MSP is the availability of efficient tools to ...
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Victor Ramos, Gianmaria Giannini, Tomás Calheiros-Cabral, Paulo Rosa-Santos and Francisco Taveira-Pinto
In recent years, seaports have faced increasing pressure to transition towards a low-carbon and more sustainable energy model. In this context, the exploitation of the local wave energy resource may appear as a promising alternative. Therefore, the objec...
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Qiwei Zhao, Xin Teng, Panpan Zhang, Wanchao Kang, Xue Meng and Shuang Wang
In the context of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality (?double carbon?), it is urgent to clarify the effect of marine spatial planning (MSP) on carbon sink increases and emission reductions, since such planning acts as a spatial governance tool for the ...
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George Katselis, Konstantinos Tsolakos and John A. Theodorou
The Greek marine aquaculture has a leading role in the Mediterranean mariculture industry, mainly in the export sector and its prominent contribution to the country?s economy. In the present study, the spatial distribution of Greek finfish farming activi...
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