INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON OCEAN ECOSYSTEM SERVICES - BFN
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International workshop on Ocean Ecosystem Services
2nd July - 5th July 2018
International Academy for Nature Conservation, Isle of Vilm
To maintain and restore ecosystems and their services (Target 2), the European Union
enshrined the need to improve knowledge of ecosystems and their services (Action 5) in the
EU Biodiversity Strategy. With the assistance of the Commission, Member States shall map
and assess the state of ecosystems and their services in terrestrial and maritime areas.
Likewise, the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) demands
an improved knowledge about maritime ecosystem services.
These requirements issue a challenge to the Member States. In the international workshop
on Ocean Ecosystem Services experts with academic and/or practical experience debate on
substantial and methodological issues of the subject. The workshop’s objectives are the
critical discussion of experiences and research results from different countries and the
elaboration of new perspectives on the process of mapping ecosystems and their services in
maritime areas.
Further information:
https://www.bfn.de/en/int-academy/conferences-and-
seminars.html?tx_blitzcalendar_pi1%5Bmonth%5D=7
and
https://www.bfn.de/en/int-academy.html
Registration:
https://www.bfn.de/en/int-academy/anmeldeformular-
2.html?tx_blitzcalendar_pi1%5Bcid%5D=3722
This event is a dialogue forum for the implementation of the German
National Strategy on Biological Diversity.
1Programme:
Monday, 2nd July
Afternoon Arrival to the Isle of Vilm
06.00 p.m. Dinner
08.00 p.m. Welcome note & get together
Tuesday, 3rd July
from
07.30 a.m. Breakfast
09.00 a.m. Introduction & Overview
09.15 a.m. Assessing and mapping Marine Ecosystem Services:
approaches for the German Baltic Sea
Marion Kruse, Christian-Albrechts-Universiät zu Kiel, Germany
To assess the various regulating, provisioning and cultural ecosystem services
supplied by the German Baltic Sea several methods and scales are combined within
the recent research projects SECOS and BACOSA. For a first overview a qualitative
assessment and mapping approach was conducted and adopted for the marine
ecosystem. The most important ecosystem services were quantified and mapped
with available data (e.g. state agency data, monitoring data). Additionally, the
combination of ecological, economic and ethical approaches brings insights into the
shifting values for some key Marine Ecosystem Services (e.g. fisheries and tourism).
10.00 a.m. Ecosystem Service Assessment in German coastal and marine waters
Gerald Schernewski, Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde, Germany
We present an ecosystem service assessment tool (ESAT) that conceptionally builts
upon the European Water Framework Directive (WFD) and utilizes spatial ecosystem
model results. Based on the spatial WFD typology and historic states, reflecting the
good ecological status and reference conditions, it allows a fast assessment of
changes in ecosystem service provision in and between systems. We show several
application examples for German coastal and marine waters.
10.45 a.m. Coffee break
11.00 a.m. Applying ecosystem service approaches to support marine policy implementation
Laura Friedrich, UN Environment - World Conservation Monitoring Centre, UK
The UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre is applying ecosystem
service approaches to support the implementation of marine policies as well as the
delivery of broader biodiversity and sustainability targets. Examples include
2understanding how ecosystem services provided by marine habitats are linked to
global Sustainable Development Goals, Aichi Biodiversity Targets or Blue Economy
industries, in order to identify appropriate management measures that will maintain
marine ecosystem service provision. The Centre is also supporting the European
Commission in driving forward the implementation of natural capital accounting,
including through the development of experimental seagrass accounts. This talk will
provide an overview of these and other projects that the Centre has been working
on, drawing from key findings that have supported the practical application of
ecosystem service approaches in marine policy implementation.
11.45 a.m. Pragmatic approaches for the identification of economic impact and value of
marine protection
Soile Oinonen, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland
This presentation provides an overview on application of the environmental
economic methods and approaches to provide policy support on the implementation
of the MSFD in Finland. Development of the marine ecosystem accounts will be also
discussed.
12.30 p.m. Lunch
01.30 p.m. Guided Tour on the island
03.00 p.m. Socioeconomic Assessment Scheme for measures to protect the marine
environment
Uta Sauer, webod.gbr, Germany
Before implementing new measures within the Marine Strategy Framework
Directive, the Member States have to carry out an impact assessment including cost-
benefit analyses. In the Directive itself is not specified what these analyses imply.
Therefore webod.gbr developed a Socioeconomic Assessment Scheme including the
required cost-effectiveness analysis and an impact assessment based on
recommendations for Regulatory and Law Impact Analyses both given from the
European Commission and the German Federal Government.
The impact assessment of measures to achieve a Good Environmental Status of the
EU's marine waters comprises a descriptive determination of socio-economic impacts
and an evaluative cost-benefit analysis. All single relevant expected effects on the
economy and society are determined and evaluated in terms of costs and benefits.
The Scheme has a procedural structure of detailed questions to gain all necessary
information, and a primed basis of official data and calculation assistance.
03.45 p.m. Marine ecosystem services within the project 'Natural Capital Germany - TEEB.de’
Ralf Döring, Thünen Institute for Sea Fisheries, Germany
The project ‘Natural Capital Germany - TEEB.de’ was issued by the German Ministry
for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety produced
four main reports between 2012 and 2018. In two of the reports marine ecosystem
services were discussed in the context of Climate Policy (Report ’Natural Capital and
3Climate Policy: Synergies and Conflicts’) and Ecosystem Services in Rural Areas
(Report ' Ecosystem Services in Rural Areas − Basis of Human Well-being and
Sustainable Economic Development‘). The presentation gives an overview on the
contents and methodological approaches with respect to marine ecosystem services
of the two reports.
04.30 p.m. Experience of Lithuania in economic analysis in the context of MSFD
Daiva Semėnienė, Center for Environmental Policy, Lithuania
The presentation provides experiences of Lithuania in economic analysis in
accordance with the MSFD. Main challenges are mentioned, as well as limitations to
apply the ecosystem services approach for the assessment of cost of degradation
and/or monetizing benefits of potential measures to be implemented to reach GES of
marine waters
05.15 p.m. Lessons learned from the practical implementation of the ES approach into national
maritime spatial plans in Europe
Susanne Altvater, s.Pro - sustainable projects, Germany
Despite the fact that the MSFD and the MSPD (Maritime Spatial Planning Directive,
2014/89/EU) have their specific objectives, it is important to link these directives
(along with others such as the WFD or Habitats Directive) in order to attain their
objectives in a more coherent way. One possibility of linking both objectives of the
MSFD and MSPD could be through the ecosystem-based approach. However, the
application entails difficulties as to merge environmental quality management (e.g.
MSFD) with MSP and Blue Growth initiatives. The main challenge remains on how to
maintain and protect ecological structure and functioning while at the same time
allowing the system to produce sustainable ecosystem services from which society
derives benefits (MSPD). Furthermore, uncertainty still exists on cumulative effects
and footprints of both directives. The presentation informs about approaches of EU
Member States how to link MSFD and MSPD's aims and shows relationships between
specific maritime sectors and the application of the 11 qualitative descriptors.
Furthermore it shows some country approaches of how the EBA and the concept of
ecosystem services are integrated into national maritime spatial plans in the EU.
06.30 p.m. Dinner
Wednesday, 4th July
from
07.30 a.m. Breakfast
09.00 a.m. Recap & Overview
09.15 a.m. Marine Ecosystem Services in the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD) and
the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD)
Gerold Janssen, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Germany
4One of the key issues in the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning
Directive 2014/89/EU (MSPD) are the consequences of implementing the "ecosystem
approach" to spatial planning. The significance of this new approach should have had
to be answered by law in the course of the implementation of the Marine Strategy
Framework Directive 2008/56/EG (MSFD), but there is no specification in the Water
Resources Act apparent. In the MSFD (and further legal acts) some criteria are
mentioned. According to Article 1 (3) of the MSFD, to which the MSPD refers directly,
it should be ensured that "marine strategies … apply an ecosystem-based approach
to the management of human activities, ensuring that the collective pressure of such
activities is kept within levels compatible with the achievement of good
environmental status and that the capacity of marine ecosystems to respond to
human-induced changes is not compromised, while enabling the sustainable use of
marine goods and services by present and future generations." In addition, the MSPD
added, that an ecosystem-based approach should be applied in a way that is adapted
to the specific ecosystems and other specificities of the different marine regions and
that takes into consideration the ongoing work in the Regional Sea Conventions (eg
by HELCOM and OSPAR). This holistic approach will be of particular importance to the
implementation of the guiding principle of sustainable spatial development within
the meaning of Section 1 (2) Spatial Planning Act (ROG), whereby the social and
economic demands on space have to be in line with its ecological functions or
services. In the lecture the legal aspects should be investigated.
10.00 a.m. Ecosystem services and the ecosystem-based approach in Maritime Spatial
Planning – experiences and thoughts from the Baltic Sea Region.
Holger Janßen, Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Digitalization Mecklenburg-
Vorpommern, Germany
Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) is often seen as an integrated approach to policy
implementation and ecosystem management. Actually, planners are often faced with
challenges in applying integrated management principles as outlined for instance in
the ecosystem-based approach. This talk reflects practical experience from the Baltic
Sea Region combined with ideas for how to implement holistic management
approaches in MSP.
10.45 a.m. Coffee break
11.00 a.m. Ethical considerations on the use and regulation of marine ecosystem services
Ariane Willemsen, Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology &
Andreas Bachmann, Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland
The ethically justified use of natural resources depends on their moral status as well
as on the question of legitimate ownership on natural resources. First, the main
ethical positions and underlying ethical theories on the moral status of natural goods
and different ownership concepts on natural resources will be presented. Second,
the presentation will examine which of these ethical positions and concepts are more
or less compatible with existing regulatory concepts with regard to marine ecosystem
services.
511.45 a.m. The ESS concept: a catalyst for revising national biodiversity policies?
The case of 'Natural Capital Germany - TEEB.de’
Markus Leibenath, Leibniz-Institut für ökologische Raumentwicklung, Germany
Some fear that the ESS concept could contribute to a neoliberalisation of biodiversity
policies. But how justified is this concern? The empirical analysis of TEEB.de reveals a
neoliberal framing of problems and challenges, but a plurality of views regarding the
means and ends of policy-making.
12.30 p.m. Lunch
01.30 p.m. Cultural ecosystem services of coastal areas – the case of tourism and recreation in
the German maritime national parks
Marius Mayer, Universität Greifswald, Germany
Oceans and coastal areas generate very import ecosystem services for mankind.
Among other, cultural ecosystem services like recreation, spiritual enlightenment,
identity or place attachment can be attributed to maritime water areas. However,
the operationalization and quantification of these cultural ecosystem services is far
from straightforward. Therefore, this presentation focuses on the recreational
ecosystem services of four German national parks, the Lower Saxony and Schleswig-
Holstein Wadden Sea, the Western Pomeranian Lagoon Area and Jasmund. Results
show that tourism and recreation in these parks generate important benefits for the
society (especially compared to the landlocked national parks in Germany) and are
relatively straightforward to assess using travel cost models.
02.15 p.m. The role of sandy sediments for the North Sea ecosystem
Sören Ahmerkamp, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Sandy sediments cover more than 50% of all continental shelf areas and 90% of the
North Sea seafloor. These sands do not only provide a habitat for many organisms
relevant for fishery, but they are also inhabited by a diverse microbial community.
Research of the last two decades has revealed that these microbial communities in
combination with specific properties of sands are highly efficient in removing critical
nitrogen compounds such as nitrate and ammonium. Thereby, coastal sands play a
vital role in buffering the open oceans from anthropogenic eutrophication. However,
the increased number of anthropogenic disturbances such as fish trawling and
exploitation of sands as a mineral commodity might have severe impacts on their
ecosystem functioning. Even though the impacts and vulnerabilities are not fully
understood it is of importance to consider an extended protection of the sand
habitat.
03.00 p.m. Coffee break
603.30 p.m. Some results on the economic valuation of marine ecosystem services from the
EU-Project VECTORS
Leyre Goti, Thünen Institute for Sea Fisheries, Germany
The European Union 7th Framework Research Program included several projects on
marine ecosystems. Some of these projects included the economic valuation of
ecosystem services. Especially in the project VECTORS several case studies were
included on e.g. the Gulf of Gdańsk, North Sea or Catalan Coast. The presentation will
provide an overview on the VECTORS project and the main project results regarding
the valuation of ecosystem services.
04.15 p.m. Exploring the capacity of the ecosystem services approach to guide fisheries
management in coastal and marine ecosystems: multi-scale lessons from Spain
Fernando Santos-Martin, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
This study’s aim was to explore how the ES approach allows proposing
complementary strategies to the current sectorial fisheries management models that
seek the sustainable exploitation of food supply services associated with fisheries
(stocks of commercial species). We do so through an integrated assessment of the
state and evolution of a multi-scale study case that analyses ES relationships,
including synergies and trade-offs.
05.00 p.m. Integrated ecological-economic fisheries models - Evaluation, review and
challenges for implementation
Martin Quaas and Martina Stiasny, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany
Understanding the economic drivers of fishing activities and assessing the economic
outcomes of changing environmental conditions or fisheries management are
important reasons for studying intergrated ecological- economic fisheries models.
We take the major fisheries in the North Atlantic and the Baltic Sea as examples to
review current developments in integrated ecological-economic fisheries modeling
and discuss the main limitations and insights.
06.30 p.m. Conference Dinner & Closing
Thursday, 5th July
from
07.30 a.m. Breakfast
08.25 a.m. Departure (ferry)
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