Produced within the CrossGov project

Albrecht, Eerika, Antti Belinskij, Elina Heikkilä (2025), Policy coherence for ecosystem-based management: Implementing EU water and marine policies in the Archipelago Sea, Marine Policy, 171, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106427.

Barbanti, Andrea, Emiliano Ramieri, Ginevra Capurso, Folco Soffietti, SPS methodological approach, CrossGov deliverable 1.5, September 2024.

Barbanti, Andrea, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Olga Maskina, Emiliano Ramieri, Paulina Ramirez-Monsalve, Matteo Ranalli, Pierre Strosser, Seline Trevisanut, Guidance document for Science-Policy-Society Interfaces analysis in CrossGov research, CrossGov deliverable 1.4, October 2023.

Boteler, Ben, Cristian Passarello, Froukje Maria Platjouw, Laura Friedrich, Saskia Trubbach, Niko Soininen, Jonas Kyrönviita, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Seline Trevisanut, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Mireille Van Rijn-Bogaart, EU and international policy landscape - Mapping EU policies and Green Deal objectives: observations for policy coherence in the marine domain, CrossGov deliverable 2.1, January 2024.

Boteler, Ben, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Cristian Passarello, Seline Trevisanut, Scoping: Concretising the policy targets and developing key scenarios, CrossGov deliverable 1.1, 2023.

Capurso, Ginevra, Emiliano Ramieri, Andrea Barbanti, A co-created Blueprint to strengthen SPS interfaces in the marine domain. CrossGov Deliverable 4.3, May 2025.

Giannopoulos Nikolaos and M Hoarau, ‘Diving into the Marine Dimension of the European Green Deal: Something Old, Something Borrowed, but how New and Blue?, in M Reese et al (eds) (book title tbd), Springer International, (forthcoming).

Knol-Kauffman, Maaike, Ben Boteler, Cristian Passarello, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Froukje Maria Platjouw, Offshore wind energy expansion and biodiversity conservation in the North Sea: planning processes in the Netherlands, Germany and Norway (forthcoming).

Kyrönviita, Jonas, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Niko Soininen, Froukje Maria Platjouw, Cristian Passarello, Horizontal coherence in EU law and policy: Analysing, explaining and improving the horizontal coherence of EU policy design, CrossGov deliverable 2.2, July 2024.

Kyrönviita, Jonas, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Niko Soininen, Froukje Maria Platjouw, Cristian Passarello, Ben Boteler, Laura Friedrich, Gunnar Sander and Paulina Ramirez-Monsalve. Coherence in policy landscapes and design, CrossGov Policy Brief 2, September 2024.

Loudin, Sarah et al, Cross-compliance in policy integration, CrossGov deliverable 3.7, (forthcoming, June 2025).

Platjouw, Froukje Maria, Gunnar Sander, Paulina Ramirez-Monsalve, Laura Friedrich, Saskia Trubbach, Ben Boteler, Cristian Passarello, Niko Soininen, Antti Belinskij, Jonas Kyronviita, Cesar Soares de Oliveira, and Pierre Strosser, Coherent and Cross-compliant Ocean Governance for Delivering the Green Deal for European Seas, CrossGov Policy Brief 1, May 2023.

Platjouw, Froukje Maria, Laura Friedrich, Saskia Trubbach, Gunnar Sander, Ben Boteler, Cristian Cristian Passarello, Niko Soininen, César Soares de Oliveira, Jonas Kyrönviita, Antti Belinskij, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Eerika Albrecht, The CrossGov Policy Coherence Evaluation Framework - A methodological framework to assess policy coherence and cross-compliance with the European Green Deal, CrossGov deliverable 1.3, February 2024.

Puharinen, Suvi-Tuuli (2025), Transnationality in EU Marine Environmental Law – Examining the Multilayered Legal Structures through the Lens of Offshore Wind Power Development in the Baltic Sea. Journal for European Environmental & Planning Law, 22(1-2), 147-167. https://doi.org/10.1163/18760104-22010208

Ramirez-Monsalve, Paulina et al, Cross-compliance in integrative planning, CrossGov deliverable 3.6 (forthcoming, June 2025).

Sander, Gunnar (2023) European Approaches Support an Essential Definition of Ecosystem-Based Management and Demonstrate Its Implementation for the Oceans, Ocean Development and International law 54, DOI: 10.1080/00908320.2023.2301105

Tamulski, Sarah, Konstantinos Madias, Öykü Özmakinacı, Jonas Kyrönviita, Ben Boteler, Cristian Passarello, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Maaike Knol-Kauffman,Saskia Trubbach, Antti Belinskij, Ginevra Capurso, Sašo Gorjanc, Laura Bastide, Froukje Maria Platjouw, Policy Coherence Roadmaps, CrossGov deliverable 4.1, May 2025.

Trevisanut, Seline, Arthur Eveleens, Ben Boteler, Nikolaos Giannopoulos, Jonas Kyrönviita, Cristian Passarello, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Analysing the vertical coherence between national policies and EU frameworks, CrossGov deliverable 2.3, October 2024.

Trubbach, Saskia, Ellen Johannesen and Froukje Maria Platjouw (2025), Archetypical patterns of barriers and enablers to policy coherence in European marine and coastal governance: A systematic review, Journal of Environmental Science and Policy (forthcoming).

Trubbach, Saskia, Gunnar Sander and Maren Sævold (2025). Beneath the surface: Can the Oslofjord Plan create transformative change through institutional layering? Ocean & Society (forthcoming).

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