Abstract
This chapter discusses some of complexities referring in particular to the example of offshore wind farming and Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) in the German North Sea, and emphasizes implications for the research community by exploring the grand Challenges of future Earth System science as formulated by interdisciplinary global scientific peers. It starts with a look at the role of marine areas for global ecosystem processes. The chapter introduces the sea as a space for the generation of marine renewables and describes recent developments in this field. It frames marine areas as social-ecological systems and moves into a discussion of MSP as one of the main tools to steer human demands in marine areas. The chapter finally discusses in depth the potential of scientific research with a particular focus on transdisciplinary science and the future Earth program to support this adaptation process. Keywords: Earth system science; Marine Spatial Planning (MSP); offshore wind farming; renewable energy; social-ecological systems
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