EwE tools for MSP user guide.pdf

The Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) Challenge 2050 serious game is an immersive, three-dimensional software system that educates stakeholders, planners and the general public about trade-offs and environmental consequences of planning decisions in the marine and coastal ecosystem over space and time.

The MSP software outsources its ecological calculations to the Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) food web modelling approach.Although this integration opens up the possibility to use a large number of EwE models for MSP game play purposes, EwE models will need some adjustments to respond to environmental changes created by MSP game play. To support this adjustment process two MSP tools were developed as plug-ins to the EwE desktop.