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  • Assessing Marine Spatial Planning governmentality
    Maritime Studies, 2020
    Co-Authors: Wesley Flannery, Benedict Mcateer
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    Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) is advanced by its champions as an impartial and rational process that can address complex management issues. We argue that MSP is not innately rational and that it problematises Marine issues in specific ways, often reflecting hegemonic agendas. The illusion of impartial rationality in MSP is derived from governmentalities that appear progressive but serve elite interests. By understanding the creation of governmentalities, we can design more equitable Planning processes. We conceptualise governmentalities as consisting of problematisations, rationalities and governance technologies, and assess England’s first Marine plans to understand how specific governmentalities de-radicalise MSP. We find that progressive framings of MSP outcomes, such as enhanced well-being, are deployed by the government to garner early support for MSP. These elements, however, become regressively problematised in later Planning phases, where they are framed by the government as being difficult to achieve and are pushed into future iterations of the process. Eviscerating progressive elements from the Planning process clears the way for the government to focus on implementing a neoliberal form of MSP. Efforts to foster radical MSP must pay attention to the emergence of governmentalities, how they travel through time/space and be cognisant of where difference can be inserted into Planning processes. Achieving progressive MSP will require the creation of a political frontier early in the process, which cannot be passed until pathways for progressive socio-environmental outcomes have been established; advocacy for disenfranchised groups; broadening MSP evaluations to account for unintended impacts; and the monitoring of progressive objectives.

  • The post-political nature of Marine Spatial Planning and modalities for its re-politicisation
    Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning, 2019
    Co-Authors: Jane Clarke, Wesley Flannery
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    Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has become the most adopted approach for sustainable Marine governance. While MSP has transformative capacity, evaluations of its implementation illustrate large gaps ...

  • Politics and Power in Marine Spatial Planning
    Maritime Spatial Planning, 2019
    Co-Authors: Wesley Flannery, Jane Clarke, Benedict Mcateer
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    Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has been lauded as a remedy to unsuitable Marine management. There is, however, growing MSP research illustrating that it is failing to foster paradigm shifts towards sustainable governance. The gap between MSP theory and practice is due to its asocial and apolitical implementation. This narrow version of MSP has been advanced through post-political Planning and uncritical rationalities. The result is a choreographed form of MSP, with clearly defined outcomes that serve the needs of elite actors rather than the public interest. This chapter argues that to recapture its democratising potential, MSP requires explicit engagement with politics and power. We highlight the use of the boundary object lens and citizen science as two potential avenues to facilitate this engagement.

  • a roadmap for Marine Spatial Planning a critical examination of the european commission s guiding principles based on their application in the clyde msp pilot project
    Marine Policy, 2012
    Co-Authors: Wesley Flannery, Micheal O Cinneide
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    The European Commission has developed a set of common principles for Marine Spatial Planning in the European Union. A critical examination of these principles in practice is undertaken through an evaluation of the Clyde Marine Spatial Planning Pilot Project. The principles are found to be lacking in specificity and somewhat inconsistent with the ecosystem based approach, which they advocate. Lessons for new Marine Spatial Planning initiatives, relating particularly to stakeholder participation, governance, data requirements, objective setting, and skills and knowledge needs, are derived from the Clyde Pilot.

Fanny Douvere - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Visions for a Sea Change: Report of the First International Workshop on Marine Spatial Planning
    2017
    Co-Authors: Charles Ehler, Fanny Douvere
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    From 8-10 November 2006 the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held the first international workshop on Marine Spatial Planning. The meeting was held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France.We prepared this technical report from expert presentations made at the workshop and subsequent discussions during and following the workshop, supplemented and updated with new information where appropriate. Marine Spatial Planning is a rapidly developing field, and we wanted to keep this report up to date. We take responsibility for any misinterpretation or misrepresentation of ideas in the original presentations or factual errors in the report.

  • new perspectives on sea use management initial findings from european experience with Marine Spatial Planning
    Journal of Environmental Management, 2009
    Co-Authors: Fanny Douvere, Charles N Ehler
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    Increased development pressures on the Marine environment and the potential for multiple use conflicts, arising as a result of the current expansion of offshore wind energy, fishing and aquaculture, dredging, mineral extraction, shipping, and the need to meet international and national commitments to biodiversity conservation, have led to increased interest in sea use Planning with particular emphasis on Marine Spatial Planning. Several European countries, on their own initiative or driven by the European Union's Marine Strategy and Maritime Policy, the Bergen Declaration of the North Sea Conference, and the EU Recommendation on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, have taken global leadership in implementing Marine Spatial Planning. Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany in the North Sea, and the United Kingdom in the Irish Sea, have already completed preliminary sea use plans and zoning proposals for Marine areas within their national jurisdictions. This paper discusses the nature and context of Marine Spatial Planning, the international legal and policy framework, and the increasing need for Marine Spatial Planning in Europe. In addition, the authors review briefly three Marine Spatial Planning initiatives in the North Sea and conclude with some initial lessons learned from these experiences.

  • the engagement of stakeholders in the Marine Spatial Planning process
    Marine Policy, 2008
    Co-Authors: Robert S Pomeroy, Fanny Douvere
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    Due to the interdependency that exists between the ecosystem resources and its users, successful implementation of ecosystem-based management depends on the identification and understanding of different stakeholders, their practices, expectations and interests. Today, many scientists and resource managers agree that the involvement of stakeholders is a key factor for a successful management regime in the Marine environment. The way stakeholders are involved in the process must reflect, or at least address, the existing complexity of the specific context. A comprehensive method that allows doing this is by use of stakeholder analysis and mapping. This article will focus on the various types and stages of stakeholder participation in a Marine Spatial Planning process, and will illustrate how to conduct a stakeholder analysis that allows the involvement of stakeholders in an adequate way that is sustainable over time.

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Andrea Morf - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Transboundary Marine Spatial Planning in the Baltic Sea Region: towards a territorial governance approach?
    Maritime Studies, 2021
    Co-Authors: John R. Moodie, Andrea Morf, Michael Kull, Elin Cedergren, Alberto Giacometti, Søren Qvist Eliasen, Lise Schrøder
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    This article examines whether the concept of territorial governance (TG) accurately captures the nature of governance and policymaking in transboundary Marine Spatial Planning (TMSP) activities in the Baltic Sea Region. The focus of analysis is on the DG Mare–funded Baltic SCOPE and Pan Baltic Scope projects, which brought together key Marine Spatial Planning stakeholders in the Baltic Sea Region to find solutions to TMSP issues. The five key dimensions of TG are examined against the transboundary collaborations undertaken during these two projects. The article finds that TMSP in the Baltic Sea Region shares many of the key characteristics of TG, such as, promoting learning and establishing stronger links between institutions, sectors and stakeholders; however, the TG concept fails to accurately capture the power dynamics at play in TMSP, particularly the central role of national Planning authorities and certain sea use sectors in determining the overall direction of policy.

  • International good practices for facilitating transboundary collaboration in Marine Spatial Planning
    Marine Policy, 2019
    Co-Authors: M. Kull, J.r. Moodie, Hannah Thomas, S. Mendez-roldan, A. Giacometti, Andrea Morf, I. Isaksson
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    Abstract The “Joint Roadmap to Accelerate Marine Spatial Planning Processes Worldwide”, adopted by IOC-UNESCO and the European Commission (DG-MARE) in 2017, highlights the growing commitment of policy and decision-makers in developing transboundary collaboration relevant to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) as a mechanism for promoting sustainable sea use. While collaboration across borders represents positive progress towards global environmental stewardship and international cooperation, transboundary MSP can present challenges and obstacles as it can be a complex process involving different parties and stakeholders across multiple levels of governance. In this article, we examine the different enabling factors and good practices that emerge from two different DG-MARE-funded knowledge exchange projects on transboundary MSP, whose findings led to the development of the Joint Roadmap: the Baltic SCOPE Project, and the Study on International Best Practices for Cross-Border MSP. Recognising that MSP processes are specific to their respective contexts, we aim to provide guidance and support towards the development of effective collaboration in future transboundary MSP initiatives by offering inspiration in the approaches and tools used elsewhere. We hope this will enable others to reflect on the benefits of adopting a strategic approach to transboundary collaboration designed to align Marine plans across different jurisdictions.

  • Insights into integration challenges in the Baltic Sea Region Marine Spatial Planning: Implications for the Helcom-Vasab principles
    Ocean & Coastal Management, 2019
    Co-Authors: Joanna Piwowarczyk, Kira Gee, Andrea Morf, Michael Gilek, Björn Hassler, Anne Luttmann, Lotta Maack, Magdalena Matczak, Fred Saunders, Ignė Stalmokaitė
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    Insights into integration challenges in the Baltic Sea Region Marine Spatial Planning : Implications for the HELCOM-VASAB principles

  • collective action and agency in baltic sea Marine Spatial Planning transnational policy coordination in the promotion of regional coherence
    Marine Policy, 2018
    Co-Authors: Björn Hassler, Andrea Morf, Michael Gilek, Anne Luttmann, Fred Saunders, Igne Stalmokaite, Helena Strand, Jacek Zaucha
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    Despite the increasing attention given to Marine Spatial Planning and the widely acknowledged need for transnational policy coordination, regional coherence has not yet improved a great deal in the ...