A Guide to Evaluating Marine Spatial Plans

Abstract

This guide on performance monitoring and evaluation (evaluation) is intended for practitioners responsible for planning and managing marine areas. Practitioners are the managers and stakeholders who are responsible for designing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating marine management plans. While its focus is on the performance monitoring and evaluation of MSP, planners and managers should know how to incorporate monitoring and evaluation considerations into the MSP process from its very beginning, and not wait until a plan is completed before thinking about how to measure “success”. Effective performance monitoring and evaluation is only possible when management objectives and expected outcomes are written in a way that is measurable, either quantitatively or qualitatively.

Marine spatial planning in the Middle East: Crossing the policy-planning divide

“…In the UNESCO publication, A Guide to Evaluating Marine Spatial Plans, Ehler [42] recommends that MSP objectives be S-M-A-R-T: specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely (SMART). Collie et al [5] use the first two criteria (specificity and measurability) to describe what makes an objective operational and therefore these two criteria are adopted here to evaluate the policy means specified for goal achievement.…”

Evaluating the data visualization for demanding marine operations

“…Only few researches were found in public w.r.t. evaluating the visualizations of marine geography [19] [20]. As a result, the research in this paper (evaluating the data visualization for marine operations) represents a new area in maritime community.…”

Gestão Dos Espaços Marinhos No Contexto Das Energias Marinhas Renováveis

“…Com essa previsão, a UNESCO edita outro documento de suporte técnico para avaliar os atuais PEM, que em alguns países estão na sua segunda ou terceira geração 46 . O guia reforça a importância do monitoramento e avaliação como elementos precoces inseridos no processo de PEM, bem como o estabelecimento de objetivos mensuráveis e específicos.…”