MASPNOSE, Preparatory Action on Maritime Spatial PLaning in the North Sea, Inventory and analysis of monitoring and evaluation tools

This document deals with monitoring and evaluation aspects in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) processes. Effective monitoring and evaluation is widely recognised as a fundamental component of maritime spatial management and needs to concentrate on the most important issues potentially affecting a maritime area. For measuring performance of an implemented plan it is important to set clear objectives. Progress and outcomes are then measured through the process of evaluation and monitoring against those objectives

MASPNOSE, Preparatory Action on Maritime Spatial PLaning in the North Sea, Inventory and analysis of monitoring and evaluation tools

This document deals with monitoring and evaluation aspects in Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) processes. Effective monitoring and evaluation is widely recognised as a fundamental component of maritime spatial management and needs to concentrate on the most important issues potentially affecting a maritime area. For measuring performance of an implemented plan it is important to set clear objectives. Progress and outcomes are then measured through the process of evaluation and monitoring against those objectives

Strong disorder RG approach – a short review of recent developments

The strong disorder RG approach for random systems has been extended in many new directions since our previous review of 2005 [F. Igloi, C. Monthus, Phys. Rep. 412, 277 (2005)]. The aim of the present colloquium paper is thus to give an overview of these various recent developments. In the field of quantum disordered models, recent progress concern infinite disorder fixed points for short-ranged models in higher dimensions d > 1, strong disorder fixed points for long-ranged models, scaling of the entanglement entropy in critical ground-states and after quantum quenches, the RSRG-X procedure to construct the whole set excited stated and the RSRG-t procedure for the unitary dynamics in many-body-localized phases, the Floquet dynamics of periodically driven chains, the dissipative effects induced by the coupling to external baths, and Anderson Localization models. In the field of classical disordered models, new applications include the contact process for epidemic spreading, the strong disorder renormalization procedure for general master equations, the localization properties of random elastic networks, and the synchronization of interacting non-linear dissipative oscillators. Application of the method for aperiodic (or deterministic) disorder is also mentioned