Abstract
The recent H2020 Blue Growth projects MARIBE and MUSES investigated the potential of a variety of different combinations of economic activities in co-location or integrated in multi-use platforms. Both projects identified barriers - including regulatory, financing, liability and insurance issues; environmental concerns; stakeholder perceptions; and lack of appropriate skills – that hamper the development of multi-use platforms. The H2020 MARIBE project concluded that further funding for multi-use demonstrations should be provided to increase investor confidence and bring multi-use through the so-called Valley of Death. The H2020 MUSES project concluded that multi-use needs to be proactively facilitated and incentivised through public regulatory bodies and respective support programmes. This paper combines and analyses results from both projects in order to identify key research gaps and actions required for the continued development of multi-use platforms, based on a structured critical review of available peer-reviewed literature on the topic as well as reports of both the MUSES and MARIBE projects. Research gaps and actions are analysed based on a multi-use platform typology to inform developers, policy makers, academia and investors for future development of multi-use at sea.
Highlights
The World’s seas and oceans are expected to play a role in addressing society’s challenges
The objective of this paper is to provide a synthesis of the MARIBE and MUSES results, with a focus on multi-use platforms
Administrative – factors related to the bureaucratic, organizational and managerial obstacles Social – factors related to the human wellbeing and safety Economic – factors related to the profitability of the MU implementation Technical – factors related to the applied and industrial science requirements of a MU Environmental – factors affecting directly and indirectly the ecological status of the marine environment Free text Type A, Type B, type C, not specified Free text, option to give more information om multi-use combinations concerned Free text Free text, if possible identifying for which regions barriers are relevant Author-year of publication MARIBE, MUSES or other
Summary
The World’s seas and oceans are expected to play a role in addressing society’s challenges. Aquaculture is expected to deliver an increasing supply of healthy food (Bene et al, 2016). Offshore energy generation (wind, wave and tidal) is contributing to the global energy transition (Weiss et al, 2018a,b). Protection of the marine ecosystem calls for establishment of Marine Protected Areas (Kirk and Liu, 2015). The seas mineral resources are sought for to meet increasing global demand (Petersen et al, 2016). Climate change is redefining the inter face between seas and land, demanding new approach to coastal defence (Morris et al, 2018). Ambitions to mitigate the impacts of climate change drives research into offshore production of lower trophic species for carbon sequestration (Duarte et al, 2017)
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