Ryan O'Shea, Elisa Capuzzo, Victoria Hemming, Gretchen Grebe, Rick Stafford, Sander W K van den Burg, Daniel Wood, Gordon Watson, Victoria Wells, Teresa Johnson, Stefan Erbs, Jaap W van Hal, Bas Binnerts, Alexandra M Collins, Caroline Howe
The offshore Multi-use Setting (MUS) is a concept that aims to co-locate marine industrial activities, including wind farms and aquaculture. MUS is considered an innovative approach to promoting efficiency in space and resource use whilst contributing global policy priorities. However, the impacts of MUS development across social, economic, and environmental domains are uncertain, hindering the commercialisation of the concept. In this study, we initially demonstrate the potential consequences of co-locating seaweed aquaculture and a wind farm as a step towards MUS...
April 12, 2024: Journal of Environmental Management