By: Elsa Sim Rui Jia Kiel University, Germany & HuFoSS, Roosendaal, the Netherlands Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Herman Hummel July 2024, MSc. Environmental Management Research Paper, 39 pp. It is often suggested that island communities (“islanders”) may have a mindset and viewpoints that are distinct from mainland communities (“mainlanders”) due to a different dependency on natural […]

  HuFoSS is searching an enthusiastic researcher for its participation in two international EU projects, MarineSABRES and MarBEFES  during the coming 2 years. The aim of the projects is to evaluate, characterize, and make available to stakeholders in coastal communities, the link between marine biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and ecosystem services in coastal areas to enable

A 2-day stakeholder and researcher engagement workshop conducted within the framework of the Horizon Europe projects Marine SABRES and MARBEFES, was held on 19-20 March 2024 in Zandvoort, the Netherlands. The objective of the workshop is to share the overview of results gathered from previous stakeholder interviews and surveys, to engage stakeholders and researchers in

During 2023 in total 231 stakeholders were consulted in 15 research areas (Fig. 1) within the MARBEFES and Marine SABRES projects on their viewpoints regarding the balance between the ecology, society and economy in their marine coastal environment, and the pressures acting on it. The research areas were distributed over 5 major regions: Macaronesia, Mediterranean,