Major challenges in developing marine spatial planning

Legal-administrative borders in the marine environment rarely coincide with the boundaries of marine ecosystems and their ecological processes. Thus, cooperation in the processes of marine spatial planning (MSP) across borders is essential to apply an ecosystem-based approach. This research analyzes the usefulness of the work flow undertaken to promote cross-border cooperation in MSP for the European Macaronesia. Given the vast extension of the sea basin, it is especially important to define the cooperation scope. The planning of cross-border cooperation initiatives must consider the capacity of the different competent authorities to progress in the MSP process as well as the specific stage that each of the parties involved is. The importance of ensuring the engagement of all competent authorities across all work phases has been confirmed, but it is highlighted the relevance of including those authorities competent in foreign affairs. It is recommended that cross-border cooperation efforts go beyond the process strictly related to spatial planning of the maritime sectors and are used as tools to overcome structural limitations and enhance the natural advantages derived from the island’s condition of insularity and outermost regions. Thus, the proposed work process has proven to be useful as a roadmap to promote cross-border cooperation adapted to the legal-administrative singularities and to respond to the physical-natural and socio-economic realities of the case study.

Section: La Cooperación Transfronteriza En La Planificación Espacial Marítimaunclassified

Laying the Foundations for Cross-Border Cooperation in Marine Spatial Planning: The Case of the European Macaronesia

Cordero-Penín¹,

Andrés²,

Onetti³

et al. 2021

“…A interação terra e mar é clara e leva a um desafio de gestão, pois muitas vezes políticas públicas, programas e/ou projetos tendem a atuar exclusivamente em terra ou no oceano. Um exemplo disso são os inúmeros programas e iniciativas de gestão costeira que foram desenvolvidos desde os anos 70 (Humphrey et al, 2000;Frazão-Santos et al, 2018;2019) e se referem, na maioria das vezes, à gestão da terra e/ou da linha de costa, sem levar em consideração as atividades humanas realizadas no meio marinho. Por outro lado, o processo mais recente de planejamento espacial marinho (PEM), definidos em Ehler (2021) como gestão do oceano baseada em ecossistemas, ou ainda em Ehler e Douvere (2009) como um processo público de análise e alocação da distribuição espacial e temporal das atividades humanas em áreas marinhas, tendem a ser mais focados na zona econômica exclusiva (ZEE) marinha (Ehler, 2021), muitas vezes não levando em consideração a interação terra e mar.…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

Land-Sea Interactions: Contributions of the Brazilian Coastal Management Program to Marine Saptial Planning

Scherer¹,

Nicolodi²

2021

The interaction between continental and oceanic areas has long been discussed in the scientific literature. In this sense, water flows, receiving basins, and oceans are interconnected, just as problems and solutions are as well. The interaction between land and sea leads to a management challenge, as public policies, programs and/or projects often tend to act exclusively on land or in the ocean. In Brazil, the Coastal Management Program (GERCO) has been implemented since 1988, with specific legislation and a set of defined strategies and instruments. More recently, Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) has started to be discussed in the country. MSP, in many cases, tends to be more focused on marine areas, disregarding this land-sea interaction. This paper aims to identify opportunities to integrate the already consolidated basis of GERCO into MSP, highlighting the potential for integration between management instruments and their respective tools. Coastal Management instruments and strategies in Brazil were analyzed, considering the potential for overlap with the MSP. A codebook was organized taking into account keywords related to MSP, adapting the methodology to a qualitative analysis, in which these keywords were located in the instruments and strategies in question. The results allow us to infer that GERCO’s strategies and instruments have the potential to contribute to the development of the MSP in Brazil in its diagnostic; prognostic; implementation, monitoring and evaluation phases. There are opportunities for integration in all the instruments analyzed, considering their peculiarities in terms of purpose, method and scale. Considering that the MSP is a territorial planning instrument, although with the peculiarities of being focused on the ocean, one can infer that its elaboration and implementation can be catalyzed by the use of the experience and knowledge already acquired over more than 30 years of coastal management in Brazil.

“…A interação terra e mar é clara e leva a um desafio de gestão, pois muitas vezes políticas públicas, programas e/ou projetos tendem a atuar exclusivamente em terra ou no oceano. Um exemplo disso são os inúmeros programas e iniciativas de gestão costeira que foram desenvolvidos desde os anos 70 (Humphrey et al, 2000;Frazão-Santos et al, 2018; e se referem, na maioria das vezes, à gestão da terra e/ou da linha de costa, sem levar em consideração as atividades humanas realizadas no meio marinho. Por outro lado, o processo mais recente de planejamento espacial marinho (PEM), definidos em Ehler (2021) como gestão do oceano baseada em ecossistemas, ou ainda em Ehler e Douvere ( 2009) como um processo público de análise e alocação da distribuição espacial e temporal das atividades humanas em áreas marinhas, tendem a ser mais focados na zona econômica exclusiva (ZEE) marinha (Ehler, 2021), muitas vezes não levando em consideração a interação terra e mar.…”

Section: Introductionunclassified

Marine spatial planning

2021