This is a preprint (pre-peer reviewed) version of the following final paper: "Daniel Depellegrin, Stefano Menegon, Giulio Farella, Michol Ghezzo, Elena Gissi, Alessandro Sarretta, Chiara Venier, Andrea Barbanti, Multi-objective spatial tools to inform maritime spatial planning in the Adriatic Sea, In Science of The Total Environment, Volume 609, 2017, Pages 1627-1639, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.07.264." 1TITLE: Multi-objective spatial tools to inform Maritime Spatial Planning in the Adriatic Sea 2 3Daniel Depellegrin1*, Stefano Menegon1*, Giulio Farella1, Michol Ghezzo1, Elena Gissi2, Alessandro 4Sarretta1, Chiara Venier1, Andrea Barbanti1 5 61CNR - National Research Council of Italy, ISMAR - Institute of Marine Sciences Venice Italy. 72Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice, 8Italy 9 10Keywords: 11Cumulative Impacts, Sea use conflict analysis, Nutrient Dispersion modelling, Marine Ecosystem 12Services, Adriatic Sea. 13 14*Joined first authors 15Daniel Depellegrin (
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[email protected]) 17 18Abstract 19This research presents a set of multi-objective spatial tools for sea planning and environmental 20management in the Adriatic Sea Basin. The tools address four objectives: 1) assessment of cumulative 21impacts from anthropogenic sea uses on environmental components of marine areas; 2) analysis of sea 22use conflicts; 3) 3-D hydrodynamic modelling of nutrient dispersion (nitrogen and phosphorus) from 23riverine sources in the Adriatic Sea Basin and 4) marine ecosystem services capacity assessment from 24seabed habitats based on an ES matrix approach. Geospatial modelling results were illustrated and 25analysed for three biogeographic subdivisions, Northern-Central-Southern Adriatic Sea.