This book develops and applies an integrated socio-economic assessment of multi-use offshore
platforms in European marine locations. The sites assessed regard infrastructures in the North
Sea the Baltic Sea the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic coast. The assessment uses the
results from the natural and engineering sciences as inputs boundaries and constraints to the
socio-economic analysis. The content of the book develops in a step-by-step coherent and
integrated manner. The presentation and the discussion on the methodology are followed by the
detailed assessment of specific multi-use offshore platforms. A detailed risk analysis follows
in which the results of the socio-economic assessment are integrated. This is complemented with
sensitivity analysis. The book offers insights that result from a multi-disciplinary approach
which combines a broad range of expertise in hydraulics wind engineering aquaculture
renewable energy marine environment project management socio-economics and governance. The
analysis follows views and assessment of world experts from all relevant disciplines from
academia big companies and potential investors that have joined forces in the MERMAID project
(vliz.be projects mermaidproject). The book is a valuable reading for academics technicians
policy-makers and relevant stakeholders.
