Journal
OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT
Volume 218, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2022.106025
Keywords
Marine spatial planning; MSP; Spatial data infrastructures; Greece; Aegean Archipelago
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- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
- European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and by national funds of Greece and Cyprus, under the Cooperation Programme INTERREG V-A Greece-Cyprus 2014-2020
- project Cross-Border Cooperation for Implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning (referred as THAL CHOR 2)
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Marine Spatial Planning is recognized as an essential tool for reducing pressures on marine and coastal areas and promoting sustainable development. Many countries have initiated MSP processes and the provision of high-quality spatial data is crucial for effective MSP. This paper proposes a development framework and discusses the actions taken for the implementation of a Marine SDI in Greece to support MSP, along with lessons learned.
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has been recognized as an essential tool for reducing the increasing pressures on marine and coastal areas (resulting from human activities and competition) and contributing to sustainable development. Therefore, during the last years many countries have initiated MSP processes towards the implementation of Maritime Spatial Strategies and Marine Spatial Plans. However, a prerequisite for the coordinated and effective MSP is the provision of high-quality spatial data to the responsible parties and the public, through appropriate and easy-to-use tools. This can be succeeded by the development of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) that enables the organization of spatial datasets and their distribution through the web. In this paper we propose a development framework and present the actions taken for the implementation of a Marine SDI to support MSP in Greece, and discuss the lessons learned from our so-far experience.
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