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CREATE-2

CREATE-2: Concepts for reducing the impact of anthropogenic pressures and uses on marine ecosystems and biodiversity

Climate change and the unsustainable use of coasts and seas not only affect the marine environment, but also human health and well-being, as humans and the sea form a socio-ecological system. Multiple anthropogenic interventions in coastal marine ecosystems increasingly lead to conflicts of use that require trade-offs. In this context, cumulative stressors, which include nutrient and other inputs from agriculture, the expansion of renewable energies, the use of coastal waters for sediment dumping, shipping, pollution and tourism, must be taken into account, which often run counter to bindingly formulated marine nature conservation goals. Accordingly, the CREATE project aims to develop solution-oriented action knowledge to reduce the cumulative impacts of multiple uses on biodiversity in three real-life laboratories involving a broad group of stakeholders. To this end, bio-geo-physical data and modelling will be provided to improve the assessment and management of coastal ecosystems through the reallabs. The provision of social science analyses of formal and informal local governance structures and their embedding in national, European and international policies allows for the development of improved management methods to reduce the cumulative impacts of multiple uses.

January, 2024

December, 2027

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Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (), Germany

Anja Engel

Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Germany
Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB), Germany
Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Germany
Humboldt University Berlin (HU), Germany
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), Germany
Johann Heinrich von Thünen Institute, Germany
University of Rostock, Germany
Kiel University (CAU), Germany
Leibniz-Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Germany
Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), Germany
University of Greifswald, Germany
Hannover University of Veterinary Medicine Foundation (TiHo), Germany
Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH (UFZ), Germany
Senckenberg Nature Research Society, Germany