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Impact Assessment Modelling for the Ocean Economy: A Review of Developments

6 Jan 2022

INTRODUCTION The achievement of a sustainable ocean economy requires the collection of relevant sectoral data the development of suitable indicators and the provision of appropriate analysis so as to aid policymaking. [...] The importance of the marine and ocean economy can be seen in the extent of the world’s oceans, the proportion of the world’s population living in coastal areas and the aims of Sustainable Development Goal 14 which looks to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development" (UN, 2015). [...] The primary goal of the modelling framework in this paper relates to the objective of providing information for decision making through the analysis of the biophysical, social, economic, and institutional consequences of proposed actions. [...] The modelling framework considers five different dimensions: Engineering cost and efficiency of the model The impact of risk and volatility The economic impact upon the user and developer of the technology via learning The impact upon the national economy The environmental impact of the technology The cost structure is calculated using engineering or pilot plant data to produce a new input-output. [...] One of the features of the Census of Population is the availability of detailed origin and destination data at a micro level by industry, which allows the researcher to incorporate both place of residence and place of work, giving the commuting footprint of different locations.

Authors

Cathal O'Donoghue, Cathal Geoghegan, Stephen Hynes, Niall Farrell, Jenny O'Leary, and Andreas Tsakiridis

Pages
34
Published in
United States of America