Anthropogenic | - | human initiated actions or activities in the wider environment |
Biodiversity | - | the variety (within and between species) of living things from all sources (terrestrial, marine, aquatic) |
Birds Directive | - | EC Directive 79/409/EEC on the Conservation of Wild Birds |
CFP | - | EU Common Fisheries Policy |
Defra | - | Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs |
Devolved Administrations | - | Scottish Executive; Welsh Assembly Government; Northern Ireland Assembly |
Devolved Responsibility | - | responsibility under the Scotland Act 1998 which has not been reserved to the UK Government/Parliament under Schedule 5. |
6 th EAP | - | EU 6 th Environment Action Programme |
Ecosystem | - | structure, process, functions and interaction among organisms, including humans, and their environment |
Ecosystem Approach | - | the integrated management of human activities based on knowledge of ecosystem dynamics to achieve sustainable use of ecosystem goods and services and maintenance of ecosystem integrity. |
Eutrophication | - | excessive nutrients causing accelerated growth of algae and an undesirable disturbance in the balance of organisms normally present |
FEPA | - | Part II of the Food and Environment Protection Act 1985 (Deposits in the Sea) |
Gothenburg Protocol | - | The 1999 Gothenburg Protocol to Abate Acidification, Eutrophication and Ground-level Ozone |
Habitats Directive | - | EC Directive 92/43/EEC on the Conservation of Natural Habitats and of Wild Flora and Fauna |
ICZM | - | Integrated Coastal Zone Management |
IMO | - | International Maritime Organisation |
Marine Stewardship Reports | - | a series of UK reports on A Strategy for the Conservation and Sustainable Development of the UK's Marine Environment |
NSC | - | The Bergen Declaration 2002 of the Fifth North Sea Conference |
OSPAR | - | Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (Oslo and Paris Commissions) |
Reserved Responsibility | - | responsibilities listed in Schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998 as reserved to the UK Government/Parliament |
Safeguarding Our Seas | - | the first UK Marine Stewardship Report |
Scottish Biodiversity Forum | - | A broad-based, partnership of Government, its agencies (SNH and SEPA), local authorities, voluntary bodies, and others working for the future of biodiversity in Scotland. |
Scottish Coastal Forum | - | A national group set up to provide a focus for discussion of coastal issues and to advise Government. |
Scotland's Marine Environment | - | adjacent to Scotland and internal waters (i.e. the Minches), over which the Scottish Executive/Parliament have devolved responsibility (see SI 1999 No. 1126 - The Scottish Adjacent Waters Boundaries Order 1999). In respect of fisheries and parts of FEPA, this extends to the limit of UK controlled waters i.e. 200 nm as designated in orders made under the Continental Shelf Act 1964. |
Stakeholders | - | organisations and individuals not part of the Scottish Executive but with whom the Executive seeks to engage in taking forward policy development |
Strategic Environmental Assessment | - | the process of assessing plans and programmes (rather than individual projects) for their environmental impacts |
Sustainable Development | - | development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. The concept embraces all economic activity including the use of natural resources. |
TBT | - | Tri-butyl-tin - a substance used in some anti-fouling paints on ships hulls to reduce encrustation by marine organisms but now being phased out |
UK State of the Seas Report | - | the next report under the UK Marine Stewardship banner |
WFD | - | EC Directive 2000/60/EC on Establishing a Framework for Community Action in the Field of Water Policy |
WEWS Act | - | The Water Environment and Water Services Act 2003 |
WSSD | - | World Summit on Sustainable Development |