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The pressing need to solve marine plastics pollution as a multi-source and multi-stakeholder problem is an ongoing global issue. This presents a challenge to policy makers tasked with understanding and accommodating different stakeholder perceptions and weighting their alternative propositions for solutions. In the case of Hong Kong, pollution of the marine environment by discarded plastics, polystyrenes and other items is a cumulative and accelerating problem that has yet to be resolved. We demonstrate how a geostatistical mapping approach can achieve joint stakeholder prioritization at any such regional scale. Joint prioritized area mapping is a methodology that links perspectives of otherwise disparate stakeholders to ecosystem-based-management, thereby balancing ecological, socio-economic and governance principles across temporal and spatial scales. It can serve as a generic scoping tool to help assess any marine spatial planning problem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: The drive for sustainable energy production is leading to increased deployment of land based renewables. Although there is public support, in principle, for renewable energy at a national level, major resistance to renewable energy technologies often occurs at a local level. Within this context, it can be useful to consider the “energyscape” which we initially define as the complex spatial and temporal combination of the supply, demand and infrastructure for energy within a landscape. By starting with a consideration of the energyscape, we can then consider the positive and negative interactions with other ecosystem services within a particular landscape. This requires a multi-disciplinary systems-approach that uses existing knowledge of landscapes, energy options, and the different perspectives of stakeholders. The approach is examined in relation to pilot case-study comprising a 155 km2 catchment in Bedfordshire, England. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]