Blue Economy: Sharing Success Stories to Inspire Change

Sharing Success Stories to Inspire Change Blue Economy

creation and for Norwegian society. • Assessments of pressures and impacts on different ecosystem components, and on the ecosystem as a whole, are conducted on a regular basis. • Developing procedures for identifying knowledge gaps and how these should be included, given priority and filled.

The plan for the Barents Sea-Lofoten area was updated in 2011 and 2015; while the plan for the Norwegian Sea was adopted in 2009; and the plan for the Norwegian part of the North Sea and Skagerrak was adopted in 2013. Complete revisions are envisaged for 2020, 2025 and 2030 for the Barents Sea, the Norwegian Sea and the North Sea/Skagerrak, respectively.

Vulnerability  of  particularly valuable  areas

Coordinated  environmental monitoring:  indicators, reference  values  and  action thresholds

Maritime  transport

Description  of  the environment  and natural  resources

Petroleum  and  energy

Cumulative  effects

INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT  PLAN

Fisheries

Conflicts  of  interest

Status  report  on industries

External  pressures (climate  change, ocean  acidification, alien  species,  and long-­‐range  pollution)

Socio-­‐economic considerations

Report  on  social  and economic  conditions

FACTUAL  BASIS

Knowledge  needs

CUMULATIVE  IMPACT ASSESSMENT

IMPACT  ASSESSMENTS  BY SECTOR  (PRESENT  –  2020/25/30)

STAKEHOLDER  INVOLVEMENT

Figure 3: Framework used in the development of the management plans. The work was led jointly by four Ministries, while the analyses and assessments were carried out by Government Directorates and institutes.

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