Purpose - This study critically examines the transformative impact of the "North Sea TikTok" phenomenon on the marine tourism sector, emphasizing the role of employee training in fostering resilience and adaptability within marine economics and integrated marine systems. It delves into how viral...

This study focuses on safety aspects which are spatially relevant and defined in legal requirements. All other aspects, such as safety on board or occupational safety are not the subject of this study, nor is the evaluation of defined safety requirements with regard to their relevance. The...

Fifteen case studies in the Baltic Sea, North Sea, EU Atlantic Western Waters and some outermost regions (focusing on the Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands) were selected to gather insights into potential spillover effects of different types of marine protected areas (MPAs). The majority of the...

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely recognized as an important tool for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management. Despite empirical evidence that abundance and biomass of fished species increase within MPA boundaries, the potential for MPAs to provide fisheries benefits to...

We highlight a coordination problem between the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS) and the EU’s offshore energy strategy. We exemplify this coordination failure by analyzing carbon leakage effects associated with Denmark’s planned North Sea energy island. The island will not start production...

Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) has been identified as an essential part of the lowest-cost path toward reaching the goals of the Paris Agreement. In Europe, an accelerated pace of CCS development indicates that a CO2 transport and storage system could be established by 2030. However, we know...

Baumkurrennetze werden bauartbedingt sehr nahe am Meeresboden geschleppt. Um das Durchscheuern der Unterblätter dieser Netze am Meeresboden zu verringern, werden dort häufig Matten aus Kardeelen von Polyethylenseilen angebracht. Diese Tauwerks-Kardeele sind als 'Dolly Ropes' bekannt. Ein...

The mixed-demand model allows for very flexible specification of what should be considered endogenous and exogenous in demand system estimation. This paper introduces a revealed preference framework to analyze the mixed-demand model. The proposed methods can be used to test whether observed data...

We investigate the effect of technology adoption on competition by leveraging a unique dataset on production, costs, and asset characteristics for North Sea upstream oil & gas companies. Relying on heterogeneity in the geological suitability of fields and a landmark decision of the Norwegian...

The ACTOM toolbox is designed to provide value over a range of field cases with diverse subsurface geology and environmental marine characteristics. Whereas the end-product of the toolbox is to aid users in defining a monitoring plan that will satisfy local stakeholders, one intermediate outcome...

The mixed-demand model allows for very flexible specification of what should be considered endogenous and exogenous in demand system estimation. This paper introduces a revealed preference framework to analyze the mixed-demand model. The proposed methods can be used to test whether observed data...

Baumkurrennetze werden bauartbedingt sehr nahe am Meeresboden geschleppt. Um das Durchscheuern der Unterblätter dieser Netze am Meeresboden zu verringern, werden dort häufig Matten aus Kardeelen von Polyethylenseilen angebracht. Diese Tauwerks-Kardeele sind als „Dolly Ropes“ bekannt. Ein...

The usage of the North Sea is in transition, influenced by the European blue growth strategy and the national follow-ups. Based on the principles of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth at sea, policies are formulated to stimulate growth in the existing and new maritime sectors. Creating blue...

Coastal and marine areas represent an increasingly important and relevant action space for spatial planning. However, to a large extent marine (or maritime) spatial planning has emerged separately from terrestrial spatial planning, constituting its own epistemic community. In particular,...

"Cold Water Oil: Offshore Petroleum Cultures is a collection of essays examining how societies conceive of fossil fuel extraction in the inhospitable but fragile waters of the North Atlantic and Arctic oceans. Around a third of the world's oil and gas is produced from beneath the ocean floor,...

The Sustainable Development Goal for the oceans and coasts (SDG 14) as part of the 2030 Agenda can be considered as an important step towards achieving more comprehensive blue growth. Here, we selected a set of 18 indicators to measure progress against SDG 14 for EU coastal states in the Baltic...

This contribution provides a composite overview of the continental shelf boundaries in the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean from a historical perspective, dating back to the early days of the North Sea oil and gas industry, before considering live issues such as those surrounding the remote...

This baseline examines the relevant aspects of the current state of the environment within the study area in relation to: biodiversity, flora and fauna; population and human health; soils, geology and sediment; water and water quality; air quality and climatic factors; materials assets; cultural...

All of the target Member States within the study area have developed maritime plans of relevance to the development of an offshore renewables energy system. As part of the Scoping Stage for the project which was carried out in May 2016, each of the target Member States were contacted and asked...

The development of an offshore renewable energy system, including grid infrastructure, in the Irish and North Seas represents a significant opportunity towards meeting the European Union's energy goals. To ensure that environmental concerns and impacts are appropriately considered at an early...

In this paper we apply the so-called partition function approach to study coalition formation in the North-east Atlantic mackerel fishery in the presence of externalities. Atlantic mackerel is mainly exploited by the European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), Norway, the Faroe Islands and...

Trotz anfänglicher Bedenken gegenüber einer Raumordnung auf dem Meer wurden inzwischen in Deutschland die notwendigen rechtlichen Regelungen geschaffen und auf dieser Grundlage maritime Raumordnungspläne aufgestellt. Die Herausforderung für die Zukunft ist, die Nutzung des maritimen Raums...

The exploitation of wind energy resources from offshore generation in the North and Irish Sea represents an opportunity for the European Union to increase the share of renewable energy generation and, at the same time, support the economic growth and the creation of sustainable jobs. The...

The STECF provided advice in relation to possible merging of the BT1 and BT2 gear categories in the North Sea by written procedure in February 2016. The Commission may consult the STECF on any matter relating to marine and fisheries biology, fishing gear technology, fisheries economics,...

"The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants' commercial...

The present paper examines the key property law-related issues pertaining to the development of sub-sea mineral resources on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf: from their initial ‘capture' (acquisition of ownership) to their transportation to downstream facilities via onshore pipelines....