Overview example

Subtask Description:
This is not in itself a subtask but it may be useful to create a similar table, where all the indicators –ecological, social and economic- are grouped together.

Action points of the implementation:

Agree on which ecological indicators you will use in comparing the outcomes of the management options.
Agree on social indicators for use in comparing the outcomes of management options.
Agree on economic indicators for assessing the Issue.

Area:
Firth of Clyde, Loch Fyne, Scotland.

Policy Issue:
Implications of increased leisure and tourist use of the Firth of Clyde

Human Activities:
Tourism, aquaculture, fisheries, maritime transport

General Information:
As the Scottish Government aims to keep pace with global tourism trends and achieve 50% revenue growth, with social, economic and environmental stability, a study was made to examine the potential for future development of the sailing industry in the Firth of Clyde. The study suggested that the Clyde estuary could double its berthing capacity for recreational boating by 2015, but this created several stakeholder concerns relatively to the impacts of increased leisure boating to other resource users, particularly mussel aquaculture and navigation, especially in relation to competition for space and water quality.

Example of Implementation:

IMPACT (in priorty)	OBJECTIVE	INDICATORS			Baseline
		Pressures	States / Conditions	Societal response
Increase in tourism & leisure		Number of moorings/ berths/ visiting boats			Existing levels (2000)
		Number of wildlife operators
		Tourism levels
		Coastal recreation visitor days / overnight trips
Reduced water quality in the Clyde system	Maintain & improve water quality to legislative standards - EU, UK	Number of reported pollution incidents Waste water points	Quality elements from the WFD and other water quality directives (eg N, P, coliforms etc)	Acreage of shellfish growing areas with harvest restrictions resulting from pollution	Legislative standards
Reduced water quality in the Clyde system		Water quality testing failures	Status of monitored beaches	Beach closures	Trend over time
Competition and conflict for space and resources e.g. moorings, infrastructure	Minimise conflict for space and resources by integrated development and MSP within ecological carrying capacity	Number of marinas/moorings	Aquaculture productivity
		Land tenure	Number of sectors and proportional representation	Presence of marine spatial planning and/or coastal zone partnerships
			Area of coastal water off limits to fishing	Opportunity costs
Disturbance to marine wildlife & ecosystems from leisure operations e.g. wildlife watching, strikes, anchors etc.	Minimise disturbance to wildlife and habitats through appropriate planning and management instruments	Number of wildlife watching tours	Status of indicator species	Presence of management instruments
		Number of infringements / reported incidents		Presence of monitoring/reporting programmes
Habitat loss from infrastructure development e.g. marina's etc	Minimise habitat loss from existing and new leisure infrastructure	Land use changes	Status of designated areas	Protected areas as % of total area	Habitats Directive
			Percentage change in extent of selected marine and coastal habitats
Socio-economic development in rural communities	Maximise and diversify the socio-economic development in rural communities in the Clyde in a sustainable context		Value of tourism / leisure industry	Population within x km of the coast
			Employment tourism / leisure industry
			Employment other industries
			Average wage / average national wage
			Proportion of seafood sold locally
			Population age structure
			Economic diversity
			Unemployment / GDP
			Income distribution / socio-economic index
Safety incidents and severity	Improve safety at sea within appropriate regulatory limits and guidelines		Number and severity of accidents
Safety incidents and severity			Number of RNLI boat/tourism/leisure related call-outs
Carbon footprint of increased leisure activities and associated travel	Minimise the carbon footprint of leisure travel		Tourist statistics + CO2 emissions (carbon calculator)
	Minimise the carbon footprint of leisure travel		Mode or travel / location

Comments:
This example provides a good connection between the identification of indicators and an approach to DPSIR analysis. Yet it would be probably more useful to add an extra column that would provide the “variable” that would be used for the quantification of every indicator and the source of these data or information.

Contact:
Callum Whyte, C.Whyte@napier.ac.uk