MARCONS

This Cost Action will consolidate a network of scientists and stakeholders who are involved in marine conservation in European and contiguous seas, promote collaboration, reduce redundancy of research efforts in conservation science and practice, make significant progress beyond the state-of-the-art by developing and promoting novel and relevant concepts, methods, and tools, provide support to the related European policies, and enable effective and informed decision-making for the improvement of marine conservation in the European Seas and adjacent regions. By advancing the science of integrated conservation planning, promoting regional coordination and transboundary conservation, proposing specific conservation actions, accounting for climatic change and biological invasions, and providing guidance for assessing governance issues to make marine spatially managed areas more effective, this Cost Action aims to bridge the gap between conservation science and policy makers and..

Primary location: Brussels Belgium