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Data about marine area-based management tools to assess their contribution to the UN sustainable development goals

Elena Gissi

, Frank Maes

, Zacharoula Kyriazi

, Ana Ruiz-Frau

, Catarina Frazão Santos

, Barbara Neumann

, Adriano Quintela

, Fátima L. Alves

, Simone Borg

, Wenting Chen

,

Maria da Luz Fernandes

, Maria Hadjimichael

, Elisabetta Manea

, Márcia Marques

, Froukje Maria Platjouw

, Michelle E. Portman

, Lisa P. Sousa

, Luca Bolognini

, Wesley Flannery

, Fabio Grati

, Cristina Pita

, Nata ș a V ˘aidianu

, Robert Stojanov

, Jan van Tatenhove

, Fiorenza Micheli

, Anna-Katharina Hornidge

, Sebastian Unger

aHopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, 120 Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA

bNational Research Council, Institute of Marine Science, CNR ISMAR, Arsenale, Tesa 104 - Castello 2737/F, 30122 Venice, Italy

cUniversity IUAV of Venice, Santa Croce 191, 30135 Venezia, Italy

dFaculty of Law and Criminology, Maritime Institute, Ghent University, Universiteitstraat 6, 90 0 0 Ghent, Belgium

eInterdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros de Leixões. Av. General Norton de Matos s/n, 4450-208 Matosinhos Portugal

fDepartment of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marqués, 21, 07190, Esporles, Spain

gMarine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Avenida Nossa Senhora do Cabo 939, 2750-374 Cascais, Portugal

hEnvironmental Economics Knowledge Center, Nova School of Business and Economics, New University of Lisbon, Rua da Holanda 1, 2775-405 Car cavelos, Portugal

iInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Berliner Str. 130, D-14467 Potsdam, Germany

jCESAM-Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies, Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aveiro, Campus Universitàrio de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

kDepartment of Environmental and Resources Law, University of Malta, Msida, MSD 2080, Malta

DOI of original article: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129910

∗ Corresponding author.

E-mail address: elena.gissi@ismar.cnr.it (E. Gissi).

Social media: (E. Gissi), (A. Ruiz-Frau), (C.F. Santos), (B. Neumann), (A. Quintela), (E. Manea), (F.M. Platjouw), (L. Bolognini), (W. Flannery), (C. Pita), (N. V ˘aidianu), (J. van Tatenhove), (F.

Micheli), (A.-K. Hornidge), (S. Unger) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2021.107704

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lNorwegian Institute for Water Research, Gaustadalléen 21, NO-0349 Oslo, Norway

mIndependent Researcher, Nicosia, Cyprus

nTechnion – Israel Institute of Technology, Kiryiat HaTechnion, Haifa 320 0 0 Israel

oNational Research Council (CNR), Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies (IRBIM), Largo Fiera della Pesca 1, 60125 Ancona, Italy

pSchool of Natural and Built Environment, David Keir Building, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, BT9 5AG, United Kingdom

qInternational Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 235 High Holborn, Holborn, London WC1V 7DN, U.K

rFaculty of Natural Sciences and Agricultural Sciences, Ovidius University of Constan ța, Aleea Universit ˘a ții 1, 900470, Constan ța, Romania

sInterdisciplinary Center for Advanced Research on Territorial Dynamics, University of Bucharest, Regina Elisabeta 4-12, 030018, Bucharest, Romania

tFaculty of Business and Economis, Mendel University in Brno, Zem ˇed ˇelská 1, 61300 Brno, Czech Republic

uCentre for Blue Governance, Department of Planning, Aalborg University, Rendsburggade 14, 90 0 0 Aalborg, Denmark

vStanford Center for Ocean Solutions, 120 Ocean View Blvd, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA

wGerman Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE), Tulpenfeld 6, D - 53113 Bonn, Germany

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Article history:

Received 4 December 2021 Revised 8 December 2021 Accepted 9 December 2021 Available online 11 December 2021 Keywords:

International and regional agreements Marine protected areas

Shipping

Fisheries management Marine spatial planning Underwater cultural heritage Deep seabed mining

a b s t ra c t

The dataset presented in this article contains information about marine Area-Based Management Tools(ABMTs) used toassesstheircontributiontotheUnitedNations2030Sus- tainableDevelopmentGoals.Followingthescopeoftheanal- ysis,ABMTswereidentifiedbyscrutinizinginternationaland regional legal sources relatedto oceanmanagement inthe fields ofmarine conservation, fisheries, deep seabedmin- ing, underwater naturaland cultural heritage, environmen- talconservation,and marinespatialplanning. Legalsources werescreenedtodepictthefollowingcharacteristicsofindi- vidualABMTs:i) managementobjectives; ii) authoritiesre- sponsible for deliveringsuch objectives; iii) the system of management and planning entailed in theABMT including the zoningtype;and iv)the specificspatialscope and do- maineachABMTrefertoinverticaldepthandhorizontaldo- main.Dataweregeneratedthroughaninternalexpertelici- tation.Experts,initiallytrainedinthedataanalysis andre- latedprotocol,contributedtothedataproductionbecauseof their specific knowledge and experience inocean manage- ment.Thisdatasetrepresentsauniquesourceofinformation foradvancing researchaboutmonitoringandassessmentof the achievement ofsustainabledevelopment goalsthat en- compassesdifferenttypesofABMTs.

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SpecificationsTable

Subject Environmental sciences → Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law Specific subject area Data pertain to the legal sources in force to the management and planning of

the ocean and coastal areas in area under and beyond national jurisdiction.

Type of data Table

How the data were acquired An initial list of 47 ocean-related international agreements (at global and regional levels) was compiled, with respect to shipping, fisheries management, deep seabed mining in the Area, underwater natural and cultural heritage, environmental conservation, and marine spatial planning. We screened them and compiled a list of ABMTs mentioned by the respective legal sources and related tools. We recorded how legal sources at the international level have shaped ABMTs with regard to spatial scope, mandate and responsibilities, and single/multiple sector-based objectives. Data about ABMTs were collected with respect to: i) their objectives; ii) authorities responsible for delivering such objectives; iii) the system of management and planning entailed in the ABMT types; and iv) the specific spatial scope and domain each ABMT refer to in vertical depth and horizontal domain.

Data format Analysed (the repositories where primary sources are hosted are all reported in the last column of the table in supplementary information)

Description of data collection Of the initial full list of ocean-related international agreements, we retained only those responding to the following two criteria: i) implementation in practice; and ii) existing specific, identifiable geographical scope for zoning.

Data source location Data source locations are reported in the Dataset table, column “Data source location, additional information, notes or web links”

Data accessibility In this article

Related research article If accepted, the article to be cited as in press is the following:

E. Gissi, F. Maes, Z. Kyriazi, A. Ruiz-Frau, C. Frazão Santos, B. Neumann, A.

Quintela, F. L. Alves, S. Borg, W. Chen, M. da Luz Fernandes, M. Hadjimichael, E.

Manea, M. Marques, F. M. Platjouw, M. E. Portman, L. P. Sousa, L. Bolognini, W.

Flannery, F. Grati, C. Pita, N. V ˘aidianu, R. Stojanov, J. van Tatenhove, F. Micheli, A.K. Hornidge, S. Unger (2022) Contributions of marine area-based

management tools to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Journal of Cleaner Production, 330, 129910, DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.129910

ValueoftheData

• ThevalueofthisdataderivesfromthesystematicanalysisofArea-basedmanagementtools (ABMT)proposed in thisstudyprovidinga complete anduniquesource ofinformation for furtherresearch,forinstance,relatedtodefining performanceindicatorsforsustainablede- velopmentgoalstoencompassthedifferenttypesofABMTs,whosecharacteristicsareanal- ysedandreportedhere.

• Decision makers, non-governmental organizations, practitioners and marine managers can use thisdataset to understand,confront, andselect the bestarea based management tool basedonthecharacteristicsresultinginthissecondarydatasettoaddressthespecificman- agementproblemtheyneedtoaddress.

• Thisdatasetcan be usedto setpotential monitoring strategiesandprotocolsbased onthe datacollectedhereforthearea-basedmanagementtools,forinstance,todefineaframework ofindicatorsfortheachievementofsustainabledevelopmentgoals.

1. DataDescription

Data aboutArea-based management tools (ABMTs)andrelatedlegal sources frominterna- tionalandregionalagreements.Alltheprimarysourceswereretrievedfrompublicinstitutional websitesoftherespectiveresponsibleauthoritiesandaccessedonMarch9,2020.Thedatapro- tocolfortheidentificationanddescriptionofABMTsfromlegaldocumentsandactsreportsthe followinginformation:i)ABMTfocus/sectorortypeofmanagementdefinedundereachtool,ii) referencetothelegalsourceincludingshortnameofthesourceand/ornameoftheinstitution,

iii)yearofentryintoforceofthelegalsources,iv)shortdefinitionasusedinofficialdocuments (includingreferencestoarticle/s),v)instrumentsusedtoimplementABMT,vi) verticalmarine subdivisions/zonestowhichABMTapplies,vii)briefoutlineofthemaritimejurisdictionalareas addressed,(accordingtoUNCLOS [1]),viii)briefdescriptionoroutlineofsector/topicforestab- lishing/ mentioning an ABMT, ix) Authority associated with the ABMT, x) list oftools and/or management strategiesassociated), xi) yearof issuingand example(s)of implementation,xii) linktotheprimarylegalsource.

2. ExperimentalDesign,MaterialsandMethods

DataweregeneratedconsideringtoidentifyABMTsandrelatedcharacteristics,thentoassess theircontribution totheUnited NationsSustainable DevelopmentGoals[1].We definedArea- BasedManagement Tools (ABMTs)asgloballyapplied, purpose-orientatedinstrumentsused in theplanningandmanagement ofmarine andcoastalareas,entailingthe implementationofa systemofrightsanddutiesina particularmanagement area (spatiallyexplicit),underthe re- sponsibilityofadesignatedauthority,toaffordhighlevelsofprotection[2,3].Sincethesystem ofrightsanddutiesisenforcedthroughlegalsources,wesearchforABMTsanddatabyselecting legalsourcesrelatedtoplanningandmanagementofmarineandcoastalareasforconservation, shipping,fisheries,deepseabed mining,andUnderwaterCulturalandNaturalHeritage(UCNH) management,andMarineSpatialPlanning(MSP).

Becauseoftheglobalscopeoftheanalysis,weidentifiedlegalsourcesatinternational(e.g., UnitedNations)andregionallevel(e.g.,RegionalFisheryOrganizations),withoutaddressingspe- cificregulationsatnationallevelofindividualStates.Sinceofinternationalandregionalagree- ments covered all ocean, we consider the dataset representative of the ABMTs implemented globally.

Theauthorscompiled an initiallist of58ocean-relatedinternationalagreements (atglobal andregionallevels).Weremoved11internationalagreementsthat werenot implementedyet, andobtainedafinallistof47internationalagreements.

WescreenedthemandcompiledalistofABMTsmentionedbytherespectivelegalsources andrelatedtools.WerecordedhowlegalsourcesattheinternationallevelhaveshapedABMTs withregardtospatialscope,mandateandresponsibilities,andsingle/multiplesector-basedob- jectives.Data aboutABMTswerecollectedwithrespectto: i)their managementobjectives; ii) authoritiesresponsiblefordeliveringsuch objectives;iii)thesystemofmanagementandplan- ningentailedintheABMTforms;andiv)thespecificspatialdomainABMTsreferto(bothver- ticaldepthandhorizontal).

Data were generated throughinternal expertelicitation. Experts involved – as the authors ofthisstudy– werepartoftheWorkingGroupon“AreaBasedManagement” oftheEuropean COSTActionCA15217OceanGov“OceanGovernanceforSustainability:Challenges,Optionsand the Role of Science”. The experts had a diverse and in-depth knowledge about the different Area-BasedManagementTools(ABMTs)relatedtoconservation,shipping,fisheries,deepseabed mining,UnderwaterCulturalandNaturalHeritage(UCNH),andMarineSpatialPlanning(MSP).

Theexperts,dividedingroupsbymanagementsector,wereaskedtocompileaninitiallistof internationalandregionallegalsourcesfortheirmanagementsector. Theinitiallistswerethen sharedamongtheentireteamtoidentifypotentialmissingsources.Oncethelistsweredefined, the data collectionwas performedin groups by annotating data fromthe legal sources on a sharedspreadsheet.ThegroupswereinitiallytrainedwithaworkshopheldinAveiro(Portugal) inJune 2018. Allthe authorscontribute to identifying thelegal sources andrevisingthe data collectedremotely.

EthicsStatements

Thedatacollectionandprocessdoesnotinvolveanyethicalconcerns.

CRediTAuthorStatement

Elena Gissiand Frank Maes: Conceived and structured the datacollection, performedthe firstsearchofthelegalsourcesofABMTs;alltheauthorscontributedtothedatacollectionand dataannotation.

DeclarationofCompetingInterest

Theauthorsdeclarethattheyhavenoknowncompetingfinancialinterestsorpersonalrela- tionshipsthatcouldhaveappearedtoinfluencetheworkreportedinthispaper.

Acknowledgments

ThisresearchwasconductedintheframeworkofCOSTactionon“OceanGovernanceforSus- tainability-challenges, optionsandtherole ofscience”, CA15217,within theWorkingGroup2

“Area Based Management” activities. Wewouldlike tothank COST forthefunding thatmade the cooperation amongst the authors, and thus this article, possible. EG partially acknowl- edgesalsofundingfromPORTODIMARE“geoPORtalofTOols&DataforsustaInableManagement of coAstal and maRine Environment” (2018–2020), Adriatic-Ionian Programme INTERREG V–B Transnational2014–2020,grant no.205,andfundingfromtheEuropean Union’sHorizon2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 893614-4,reflecting onlythe authors’view;AQ partiallyacknowledges theProject SIMAtlantic (grant no. EASME/EMFF/2018/1.2.1.5); MLF partially acknowledges the Portuguese Foundation forScienceandTechnology (FCT),withaDo^∗MarprogrammePhDgrant(PD/BD/113485/2015);

MM partially acknowledges FCT, with a PhD grant (SFRH/BD/138422/2018). AQ, FA, MLF, LS, MM, CP partially acknowledge the financial support to FCT/MCTES for the financial sup- port toCESAM (UIDP/50017/2020+UIDB/50017/2020), throughnational funds.CFSpartiallyac- knowledgesfundingfromFCTresearchcontract2020.03704.CEECIND,researchgrantPTDC/CTA- AMB/30226/2017, andMARE strategicprojectUID/MAR/04292/2019.NVpartially acknowledges alsofundingfromtheRomanianNationalAuthorityforScientificResearchandInnovation,grants no.CNCS-UEFISCDIPN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2016-2491,PN-III-P1-1.1-TE-2019-1444,andtheprojectT4BS (grantno.EASME/EMFF/2019/863621).TheworkofCPwassupportedbyFCTresearch contract 2020.02510.CEECIND. The work ofBN andSU wassupported by the GermanFederal Ministry of EducationandResearch (BMBF)throughits Research forSustainableDevelopment program (FONA),andtheFederalStateofBrandenburg.

SupplementaryMaterials

Supplementary material associatedwith this articlecan be found in theonline version at doi:10.1016/j.dib.2021.107704.

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