title: An integrated Pan-European perspective on coastal Lagoons management through a mosaic-DPSIR approach.
abstract: A decision support framework for the management of lagoon ecosystems was tested using four European Lagoons: Ria de Aveiro (Portugal), Mar Menor (Spain), Tyligulskyi Liman (Ukraine) and Vistula Lagoon (Poland/Russia). Our aim was to formulate integrated management recommendations for European lagoons. To achieve this we followed a DPSIR (Drivers-Pressures-State Change-Impacts-Responses) approach, with focus on integrating aspects of human wellbeing, welfare and ecosystem sustainability. The most important drivers in each lagoon were identified, based on information gathered from the lagoons' stakeholders, complemented by scientific knowledge on each lagoon as seen from a land-sea perspective. The DPSIR cycles for each driver were combined into a mosaic-DPSIR conceptual model to examine the interdependency between the multiple and interacting uses of the lagoon. This framework emphasizes the common links, but also the specificities of responses to drivers and the ecosystem services provided. The information collected was used to formulate recommendations for the sustainable management of lagoons within a Pan-European context. Several common management recommendations were proposed, but specificities were also identified. The study synthesizes the present conditions for the management of lagoons, thus analysing and examining the activities that might be developed in different scenarios, scenarios which facilitate ecosystem protection without compromising future generations.
authors.affiliation: Biology Department &Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal.|CFE - Centre for Functional Ecology, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra, PO Box 3046, 3001-401 Coimbra, Portugal.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Dolbeth
authors.affiliation: NIBIO - Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research, Ås, Norway.
authors.forename: Per
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Stålnacke
authors.affiliation: Department of Environment and Planning &Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal.
authors.forename: Fátima L
authors.initials: FL
authors.lastname: Alves
authors.affiliation: Department of Environment and Planning &Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal.
authors.forename: Lisa P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Sousa
authors.affiliation: DelPar Environment Consulting, Rotegatan 4, Linköping, 58752, Sweden.|Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: Geoffrey D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Gooch
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Meteorology and Weather Forecasts, Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Valeriy
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Khokhlov
authors.affiliation: Department of Oceanology and Marine Nature Management, Odessa State Environmental University, Odessa, Ukraine.
authors.forename: Yurii
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tuchkovenko
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Hydrology, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain.|The Ecosystems Center, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lloret
authors.affiliation: Department of Wave Mechanics and Dynamics of Structures. Institute of Hydro-Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland.
authors.forename: Małgorzata
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bielecka
authors.affiliation: Department of Coastal Engineering and Dynamics, Institute of Hydro-Engineering Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdansk, Poland.
authors.forename: Grzegorz
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Różyński
authors.affiliation: Department of Environment and Planning &Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal.
authors.forename: João A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Soares
authors.affiliation: Dundee Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK.
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Baggett
authors.affiliation: National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Gdynia, Poland.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Margonski
authors.affiliation: Atlantic Branch of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of Russian Academy of Sciences, Kaliningrad, Russia.
authors.forename: Boris V
authors.initials: BV
authors.lastname: Chubarenko
authors.affiliation: Biology Department &Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus Universitário de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Lillebø