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Major challenges in developing marine spatial planning

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Catarina Frazão Santos *
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Tundi Agardy
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Francisco Andrade
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Larry B. Crowder
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Charles N. Ehler
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Michael K. Orbach
DOI:10.1016/j.marpol.2018.08.032delete
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Planning for marine areas, from coastal to open-ocean regions, is being developed worldwide to foster sustainable ocean management and governance. Over the past decades, significant progress has been made by governments in their thinking about marine spatial planning (MSP). MSP is globally widespread and a topic of increasing importance in the scientific and policy realms. It is currently under development in almost 70 countries, encompassing six continents and four ocean basins. Despite its acceptance and use, development and implementation of MSP still faces a myriad of present and future, conceptual and practical challenges, some of them being more striking and widespread. Here, we highlight seven major challenges that need to be properly addressed so that MSP can truly contribute to a sustainable use of the world's oceans. These include, among others, shortcomings in political and institutional frameworks, stakeholder engagement, encompassing human and social dimensions in MSP, balancing economic development and marine ecosystem conservation, and adapting to global environmental change.
Keywords:
Ocean planning
Maritime spatial planning
Shortcomings
Sustainability
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