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MARINE POLICY
Volume 127, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104441
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Marine protected area; Marine spatial planning; Ocean management; Ocean policy; Zoning; Multiple-use; Conservation; England; Germany
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Systems of Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are often developed in parallel, but lack integration due to the longer history and established institutional frameworks of marine conservation. However, there are various options available to link these processes more closely together.
Systems of marine spatial planning (MSP) are now being introduced in many countries, with the intention of more rational arrangement of maritime uses and interests. It would be expected that marine conservation, especially the designation of marine protected areas (MPAs), would be incorporated into MSP. In practice, however, MSP and MPA designation are often taking place in parallel to each other, with relatively little inte-gration between them, partly because of marine conservation's longer history and established institutional frameworks which cannot be simply subsumed into MSP processes. There are, nonetheless, a series of options available by which the two sets of process could be more closely linked. These options can be conceptualised temporally, by, for example, MSP improving the status of pre-existing MPAs, or spatially, by, for example, facilitating the creation of multiple-use MPAs. These difficulties and possibilities are illustrated through two national European experiences.
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