Implementing marine spatial planning: A policy perspective

Ir. Cathy Plasman

Marine Policy, 2008, vol. 32, issue 5, 811-815

Abstract: Marine spatial planning is often confronted with different types of hurdles that make the implementation of plans and strategies more difficult than scientists and planners--who have done most of the preparatory work--have foreseen. How does this situation come about? Is it due to the lack of interest or will of politicians? Are the technical proposals and plans too complex or too far from reality? Do they cost too much without comparable benefits? What can be done to avoid this? Based on recent experience within Belgium, some suggestions for more effective implementation of marine spatial plans are presented in this paper from a policy-making perspective.

Keywords: Marine; spatial; planning; Policy; perspective; Marine; protected; areas; Sea; use; management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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