UK Marine Human Activities-Pressures Linkage Matrix

A UK-standardised matrix linking human activities to marine pressures, created by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. It synthesizes links identified in five previous studies, including the Business as Usual Study and the ODEMM linkage framework. The dataset was last updated on 2026-04-14.

Use Cases

• Modeling cumulative environmental impacts based on linked activities and pressures.
• Assessing marine ecosystem sensitivity for management planning based on the pressure-activities framework.
• Informing marine spatial planning decisions based on standardized UK linkages.

Strengths

• Standardized matrix for the UK, integrating findings from five distinct source studies.
• Links are explicitly collated from studies including MarLIN (2003), ODEMM (2011), and FEAST (2013).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Collation and combination of pressure-activity links from five reviewed matrices.

Time Range

Studies span from 2003 to 2013.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:47.966507; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom coastal and marine areas.