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Sustainable Marine Spatial Planning and Marine Environmental Management

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Oceans".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2026 | Viewed by 551

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Dear Colleagues,

Safety, reliability, and sustainability have become central themes for stakeholders in sustainable marine spatial planning and marine environmental management, including maritime companies, policymakers, and international bodies, such as the International Maritime Organization. These principles support the overarching goal of enabling long-term coexistence between human activities and marine ecosystems. In this context, addressing the increasing volume of maritime transport is critical, alongside efforts to reduce its environmental impact.

The safety perspective within marine spatial planning emphasizes minimizing and managing risks in maritime transport through efficient and innovative methods. This includes fostering advancements in education, engineering, technological development, and organizational frameworks to ensure safety and sustainability. Recent research and emerging practices that align sustainable development with marine environmental management highlight the dynamic progress in this field, as reflected in the thematic focus of this Special Issue of JMSE.

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Keywords

  • maritime transport
  • safety
  • shipping emission
  • sustainable transport
  • port safety
  • energy efficiency
  • alternative fuels
  • cold ironing

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Supply and Demand Analysis for Designing Sustainable National Earth Observation-Based Services for Coastal Area Monitoring
by Antonello Bruschi, Serena Geraldini, Manuela D’Amen, Nico Bonora and Andrea Taramelli
Sustainability 2025, 17(12), 5617; https://doi.org/10.3390/su17125617 - 18 Jun 2025
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Here we take the example of Italy to demonstrate a country-level approach to the design of a sustainable system of Earth Observation (EO)-based products to match the demand/supply for monitoring coastal zones and to guide the development of new products based on national/local [...] Read more.
Here we take the example of Italy to demonstrate a country-level approach to the design of a sustainable system of Earth Observation (EO)-based products to match the demand/supply for monitoring coastal zones and to guide the development of new products based on national/local users’ needs complementary to Copernicus Core Services products and its future development. With support from the Coastal Thematic Consultation Board of the Italian Copernicus User Forum, we applied a standardized methodology involving elicitation, selection, analysis, validation, and requirement management. Our findings reveal a strong national need in EO-based products for coastal monitoring and services provision. The survey results offer insights into how existing products and services meet user needs on the national scale, for monitoring several parameters pertaining to four classes, biological, geomorphological, physical, and chemical, highlighting additional demands and integration opportunities with the evolving European Copernicus Coastal Hub. The innovation of this work lies in the design of a foundation for a holistic approach to complement European and national EO systems, both in terms of data to be acquired with synergistic satellite missions and in situ infrastructures and in terms of the development of sustainable products, models, and algorithms for downstream value-added services. Full article
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