Challenges and Solutions in Forecasting and Decision-Making in Marine Economy and Management, Volume II

This Research Topic is part of the series: Challenges and Solutions in Forecasting and Decision-Making in Marine Economy and Management

The marine economy and management pertain to the sustainable utilization of marine resources through internal and external coordination across departments, with a focus on maximizing social and economic benefits. However, the persistence of activities such as overfishing, offshore oil spills, and excessive coastal development has led to escalating issues like offshore eutrophication, ocean acidification, warming, and marine plastic pollution, posing significant threats to marine sustainability. In alignment with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 14, substantial progress has been achieved by ocean management researchers in analyzing fishery resource management, optimization of marine industrial structures, development of marine energy, and adaptation of marine climate change. These studies hold crucial theoretical significance and practical value for understanding the state of the marine economy, guiding management practices, ensuring marine ecological security, and fostering sustainable ocean development.

It is important to note that the intertwining uncertainties including the degradation of marine ecosystems, frequent marine disasters, and maritime trade conflicts create a nonlinear and complex network within marine economy and management. Current research on comprehensive assessment, scientific prediction, and decision-making of cross-cutting issues in this field is insufficient, hindering the development of effective tools to handle volatility, periodicity, and nonlinearity in quantitative analysis of the marine economy, as well as sensitivity, vulnerability, and complexity in integrated marine management. Therefore, it is imperative to leverage interdisciplinary knowledge and technologies from management science, quantitative economics, systems engineering, and others to drive innovative research on prediction and decision-making methods aimed at addressing practical challenges in marine economy and management. This underscores the pressing need for and importance of developing into this research topic.

The scope of this research topic focuses on innovating and applying adaptive forecasting and decision-making theories, models, and methods to effectively tackle diverse challenges in marine economy and management, promoting sustainable marine development. It calls for original and novel papers in any of the following topics:

• Modeling of complex systems in marine economy and management
• Quantitative analysis and forecasting marine economy and management
• Intelligent decision-making and intelligent ocean construction
• Climate change governance and marine security
• Early warning and control of marine environmental system
• Marine ecological protection and sustainable development

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Article types

This Research Topic accepts the following article types, unless otherwise specified in the Research Topic description:

• Brief Research Report
• Data Report
• Editorial
• FAIR² Data
• FAIR² DATA Direct Submission
• General Commentary
• Hypothesis and Theory
• Methods
• Mini Review
• Opinion
• Original Research
• Perspective
• Policy and Practice Reviews
• Policy Brief
• Review
• Systematic Review
• Technology and Code

Keywords: marine economy and management, marine complex system, forecasting and decision-making, marine sustainable development, quantitative analysis and modeling

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