Objective
The literature review summarises the findings of existing studies relating to the adequacy and data available for the North Sea basin. The rationale for the project is to examine gaps in data supply and gaps in knowledge, this is tested on each of the challenges and the literature review acts as a wider context for this analysis.
Background
This challenge reviews and analyses websites, grey literature and papers to investigate what is currently known about the adequacy of data to support policy and the blue economy in the North Sea Basin. It considers formal analysis of initiatives such as EMODNET and Copernicus, scientific papers and reports that indirectly reviewed the adequacy of data as part of their investigation. In addition to the content of these documents, we also looked at how easy it was to discover the documents, using both general purpose search engines and scholarly catalogues. Our aim was to put our self in the position of an actor in the Blue Economy to see how easy it was for them to find relevant information on data to suit their needs.
In undertaking this challenge we deliberately avoided undertaking analysis specific to a challenge, however any data sources identified in the literature review would form an input to each of the challenges.