Progress report for
Cross-boundary and inter-sectorial solutions for ecosystem-based marine spatial planning: the Symphony method
Achievement at a glance
The Symphony tool has been operative since 2017 and has been used over 3 years in support of the Swedish national MSP. The Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management is now refining the technical developments of Symphony into a user-friendly open-source tool for cumulative impact assessment with scenario functionality, in support of the global community of MSP and marine management, available to actors from local authorities to governments in any country.The advantages represented by the Swedish use of Symphony has inspired equivalent developments in several countries and regional MSP collaboration projects (North Zee, Pan-Baltic Scope). Likewise, further developments of Symphony have benefited from the progress on equivalent approaches in other countries, such as Denmark, Latvia, Italy, Portugal, France and USA. Sweden is currently engaged in supporting the development of Symphony-like decision support tools in South Africa, Russia and on regional level for the Western Indian Ocean in collaboration with the Nairobi Convention (UNEP). Moreover, the Symphony tool has led to several new research projects where the method is applied to the Climate Change context and the context of terrestrial strategic planning for wind energy.
The impact of this commitment may not be limited to the advantages for ecosystem-based MSP. The ability to synthesize large data into comprehensive and visual analyses of environmental impact at strategic level, and the ability for forward-looking scenario-analyses, have great value as bridging marine science-to-policy and for the constructive use of marine data under transparent preconditions.
More information at: https://www.havochvatten.se/symphony-eng\\r\\nSymphony is demonstrated in this short video:https://youtu.be/E9p7ISpNGKM
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