Spatial planning on the North Sea: A case of cross-scale linkages

Ditte Degnbol and Douglas Clyde Wilson

Marine Policy, 2008, vol. 32, issue 2, pages 189-200

Abstract: The North Sea Regional Advisory Council (NSRAC) is the main forum through which fisheries interests are involved in Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) on the North Sea. The NSRAC is a relatively new and fragile forum involving various stakeholders. MSP confronts this group with a series of broader issues such as inter alia wind farms, transportation, and marine protected areas. The spatial focus involves both a reduction and a multiplication of the levels of geographical scale at which information for management must be resolved. The ongoing development of these institutions provides lessons about facilitating the evolution of cross-scale institutional linkages that strengthen adaptive, eco-system-based management.

Keywords: MSP; NSRAC; Cross-scale; linkages; Stakeholder; participation; Adaptive; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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