Marine development in the UK and internationally is not currently sufficiently considering the wide range of social impacts for coastal communities, a new report finds.
Marine development in the UK and internationally is not currently sufficiently considering the wide range of social impacts for coastal communities, a new report finds.
The University of Exeter has completed a scoping review of evidence on the social impacts of marine sectors on coastal communities, on behalf of The Crown Estate. The review was led by Dr Pamela Buchan, an interdisciplinary marine scientist in the University of Exeter Geography Department and ACCESS Network Leadership College Fellow.
Research is dominated by efforts to generate acceptance of developments, whilst existing practices are focused on job creation, skills development, and grant giving through community benefit schemes. This is strongly influenced by a lack of regulation that requires offshore sectors to consider, evidence, and monitor social impacts at all stages of marine development, with practices such as Environmental Impact Assessment often scoping out coastal community impacts for activities taking place at sea.
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