A critical turn in marine spatial planning
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A critical turn in marine spatial planning Wesley Flannery 1 & Hilde Toonen 2 & Stephen Jay 3 & Joanna Vince 4,5 Published online: 25 August 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Although area-based approaches to marine management have a long history, over the last 10–15 years marine spatial planning (MSP) has risen to become the dominant marine management paradigm. Spatial planning in the marine environment can, in part, be traced back to integrated coastal zone management (Agardy et al. 2011) and large marine ecosystem programs, such as the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Day 2002). However, a special issue in Marine Policy in 2008 (see Douvere and Elher 2008, for an introduction to this issue) and the publication of an associated UNESCO guidance document in 2009 (Elher and Douvere 2009) popularized and defined the concept of MSP more clearly. Since then, MSP has been widely promoted by academics, practitioners, and policymakers as a solution to a vast array of management issues. It has been presented, amongst other things, as a process for implementing ecosystem-based management in the marine environment (Foley et al. 2010), a mechanism for reducing user conflict (Tuda et al. 2014), a means of enhancing
* Wesley Flannery [email protected] Hilde Toonen [email protected] Stephen Jay [email protected] Joanna Vince [email protected] 1
School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast, University Rd, Belfast BT7 1NN, UK
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Environmental Policy Group, Wageningen University, Hollandseweg 1, P.O. Box 8130, Wageningen 6700 EW, The Netherlands
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Department of Geography & Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK
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School of Social Sciences, College of Arts, Law and Education, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia
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Centre for Marine Socio-ecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia
environmental protection (Halpern et al. 2012), and a process for facilitating the expansion of maritime economies (Rodríguez-Rodríguez et al. 2016). Mirroring its extensive commendation as a solution to these and other issues, and its rapid implementation worldwide (Jay et al. 2013; UNESCO online), MSP has grown as an area of academic research. While there has been much academic interest in the concept of MSP, a considerable portion of the literature has been critiqued for being asocial and atheoretical (Flannery et al. 2016) or for failing to deal with the realpolitik of implementing MSP (Santos et al. 2018). As noted by Flannery et al., in 2016, of the 1192 MSP papers available on Scopus at that time only 250 were from the social sciences, and many of these lacked a critical, theoretically informed engagement with MSP. The utility of this first wave of MSP scholarship should not be dismissed. It helped to develop a broad understanding of the core concepts involved and drew together an academic community focused on its development and concerned to contribute to improved practice. Also, as highligh
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