PREHAB
Spatial PREdiction of Baltic benthic HABitats:
incorporating human pressures and economic evaluation
PREHAB briefing on key results
Year 2 progress reportYear 1 progress report
For more relevant publications, visit www.bonusportal.org/publications (category BONUS+ reports).
Begin date 1.1.2009
End date 31.12.2011
Grant: 932 348€
Spatial planning is an important component of future ecosystem-based resource and risk management of the Baltic environment. To offer reliable options for management, planning need to be based on solid information about the distribution of biological properties of the system, effects of human pressures and socioeconomic costs and benefits of different options for management. Therefore the aims of PREHAB are to, within four Baltic areas:
1. Develop methods for powerful, precise and cost-efficient spatial prediction of the biological properties of coastal habitats
2. Assess indicators of human pressures as predictors of spatial patterns in coastal habitats.
3. Combine predictive models and scenarios of human pressures to assess effects on coastal ecology, ecosystem goods & services and net social benefits associated with alternative management options
develops and tests methods for predictive modelling and mapping.
These medows provide important nursery and feeding grounds for
many commersial fish species. Photo: Maria Asplund
The methods developed within PREHAB will provide scientific routines for how to synthesise and use available and new data, tools for evaluating socioeconomic costs and benefits following certain managerial decisions. In particular the tight link from spatial predictions to GIS-based mapping will ensure that the tools developed within PREHAB are readily applied in the practical management of resources and risks. Last but not least, the communicational and educational power of using maps in interactions among the decision makers, various stakeholders and the wider public, cannot be overrated.
Keywords
Predictive modelling, economic evaluation, spatial planning, environmental scenarios, human pressures
List of Participants and Principal Scientists
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Göteborg University, Sweden |
Mats Lindegarth (Coordinator) |
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Finnish Environment Institute, Finland |
Heikki Peltonen |
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Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania |
Sergei Olenin |
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Swedish Board of Fisheries, Sweden |
Ulf Bergström |
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University of Helsinki, Finland |
Markku Ollikainen |
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Åbo Akademi University, Finland |
Johanna Mattila |
