Keynote: Spatial analysis of co-location in MSP: Part of Parallel session: Spatial analysis of socioeconomic-environmental interactions

This keynote presentation focuses on co-location. It is based on PhD research at the Geoinformatics group at AAU-CPH, research also part of the BONUS BASMATI project where institutions from various Baltic Sea countries are involved.
Co-location is an important topic gaining increasing scientific and practical attention due to its importance for increasing synergies and decreasing conflicts within marine areas where more marine uses are arriving, putting increasing pressures on each other and on the Environment. The presentation aims to answer three questions; 1) How to understand and define co-location (theoretical framework)? 2) How do existing spatial decision support tools consider co-location? 3) How to develop a tool supporting co-location? In its answers, the presentation draws on a conflict-synergy scale within existing literature, it draws on existing spatial GIS-methods for cumulative environmental impact assessments, and it introduces a new GIS-method to produce conflict-synergy maps for the Baltic Sea. The presentation both highligths the strengths with methods to consider co-location as well as point out some of the future technical, data-based, and processual challenges to co-location.