Marine Spatial Planning
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Marine Spatial Planning is a planning tool that enables integrated, forward-looking and consistent decision-making on the use of the sea. The Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the United Kingdom have developed a commonly used definition:
“strategic, forward-looking planning for regulating, managing and protecting the marine environment,including through allocation of space, that addresses the multiple, cumulative, and potentially conflicting uses of the sea” (DEFRA, 2004,3)
The main elements of marine spatial planning include an interlinked system of plans, policies and regulations; the components of environmental management systems (e.g. setting objectives, initial assessment, implementation, monitoring, audit and review); and some of the many tools that are already used for land use planning. Whatever the building blocks, the essential consideration is that they need to work across sectors and give a geographic context in which to make decisions about the use of resources, development, conservation and the management of activities in the marine environment (JMPMU 55, 2007).
References
ABPmer (2005), Marine Spatial Planning Pilot Literature Review Peterbourough. Online:http://www.abpmer.net/mspp
ABPmer (2006), Marine Spatial Planning Pilot Final Report. Peterbourough. Online:http://www.abpmer.net/mspp
Joint Marine Programme Marine Update 55 (2007): Marine Spatial Planning: A down to earth view of managing activities inthe marine environment for the benefit of humans and wildlife
Long R. (2007) .Marine Resource Law. Dublin: Thompson Round Hall
Gubbay S. (2004) .Marine protected areas in the context of marine spatial planning— discussing the links. A report for WWF-UK Online: http://www.wwf.org.uk/filelibrary/pdf/MPAs-marinespacialplanning.pdf
Douvere, F and Ehler, C. (2006) The International perspective: Lessons From Recent European Experience With Marine Spatial Planning, Paper presented at the Paper presented at the Symposium on Management for Spatial and Temporal Complexity in Ocean Ecosystems in the 21st Century at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, San Jose, California, 24-28 June 2006
