A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool

Lonsdale, Jemma; Nicholson, Rose; Weston, Keith; Elliott, Michael; Birchenough, Andrew; Sühring, Roxana

doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.032

A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool

Lonsdale, Jemma; Nicholson, Rose; Weston, Keith; Elliott, Michael; Birchenough, Andrew; Sühring, Roxana

Authors

Jemma Lonsdale

Rose Nicholson

Keith Weston

Professor Mike Elliott Mike.Elliott@hull.ac.uk
Emeritus Professor of Estuarine and Coastal Sciences/ Research Professor, Institute of Estuarine and Coastal Studies

Andrew Birchenough

Roxana Sühring

Abstract

© 2017 Estuaries are amongst the most socio-economically and ecologically important environments however, due to competing and conflicting demands, management is often challenging with a complex legislative framework managed by multiple agencies. To facilitate the understanding of this legislative framework, we have developed a GISbased Estuarine Planning Support System tool. The tool integrates the requirements of the relevant legislation and provides a basis for assessing the current environmental state of an estuary as well as informing and assessing new plans to ensure a healthy estuarine state. The tool ensures that the information is easily accessible for regulators, managers, developers and the public. The tool is intended to be adaptable, but is assessed using the Humber Estuary, United Kingdom as a case study area. The successful application of the to ol for complex socio-economic and environmental systems demonstrates that the tool can efficiently guide users through the complex requirements needed to support sustainable development.

Citation

Lonsdale, J., Nicholson, R., Weston, K., Elliott, M., Birchenough, A., & Sühring, R. (2018). A user's guide to coping with estuarine management bureaucracy: An Estuarine Planning Support System (EPSS) tool. Marine pollution bulletin, 127, 463-477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.032

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Dec 12, 2017
Online Publication Date	Dec 21, 2017
Publication Date	2018-02
Deposit Date	May 31, 2022
Journal	Marine Pollution Bulletin
Print ISSN	0025-326X
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	127
Pages	463-477
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.12.032
Keywords	Ecosystem goods and services; Estuarine planning; Estuary; Humber; Geographic Information System
Public URL	https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/721913