The future of marine spatial planning

Corey Bradshaw, Lucy Greenhill, Katherine Yates

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Abstract

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides how effective marine spatial planning can minimise the negative impacts of offshore-energy developments and realise new opportunities for multi-sector benefits. It highlights some of many challenges that remain for marine spatial planning, and suggests how increased collaboration, more meaningful participation, and more aligned governance structures combined with transparent planning tools can contribute to future successes. The book provides an in-depth assessment of the stakeholder-engagement process and describes that effective participation is essential to successful planning outcomes and that participation needs to each stakeholder to be effective. It examines how the process of stakeholder engagement can be a form of data generation and validation that can work in conjunction with ecosystem service trade-off analysis. The book discusses the marine spatial planning invoking a complex array of disciplines that must be harmonised-from the scientific, socio-economic, legal, political, to the psychological.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationOffshore Energy and Marine Spatial Planning
EditorsKatherine L Yates, Corey J A Bradshaw
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge, Taylor & Francis
Chapter16
Pages284-293
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781315666877, 9781317356424
ISBN (Print)9781138954533
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Mar 2018

Keywords

  • marine spatial planning
  • offshore-energy developments
  • marine ecosystem

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