Measured as the water flows: the striated and smooth in marine spatial planning
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Measured as the water flows: the striated and smooth in marine spatial planning Stephen Jay 1 Received: 29 April 2019 / Accepted: 30 October 2019 # The Author(s) 2019
Abstract Marine spatial planning (MSP) now has a sufficient history for consideration of the way in which MSP processes are developing over time, gaining experience and responding to issues that arise. Rather than setting a study of this kind in the well-established framework of adaptive management, I choose instead a spatial concept that allows planning action to be more closely meshed with the nature of the marine setting itself, that of Deleuze and Guatarri’s notion of striated and smooth spaces. This suggests that there are two different manners in which space is produced, which are interdependent and interchanging and work together in making progress; this has certain resonances with the materiality of the sea. I use this concept in a reading of an MSP process with a relatively long pedigree, that of the Shetland Islands, Scotland, UK, focusing particularly on the development of aquaculture policy, through analysis of a sequence of documents. The study reveals that policy-making is suffused with striated and smooth spatialities, finding expression on the one hand in development criteria and other regulations, and on the other hand, in discretion, negotiation and opportunity-building, with the two yielding to each other and advancing together with their different types of movement. This suggests a more general manner by which MSP processes may progress, by spatial dialectic of this kind, in which those who practice MSP engage through their own reasoning of the natural and human structures and dynamisms of the coasts and seas and their responsive plan-making. Keywords Marine spatial planning . Deleuze and Guatarri . Striated and smooth space . Shetland Islands . Aquaculture
Introduction Marine spatial planning (MSP) now has a history. In some areas, a sequence of plans has been produced through an ongoing MSP process (Blau and Green 2015), inviting exploration of the changes that have taken place during these processes, especially the ways in which the planning response to perceived issues may have developed. For example, how have successive plans reflected growing knowledge of environmental conditions and human demands? And how has the experience of one round of planning efforts informed the next? A genealogy of plans would be a fruitful dataset for studying an MSP authority’s evolving understanding of its means of intervening in the marine activities and interests in its area. This could contribute to our wider understanding of * Stephen Jay [email protected] 1
Department of Geography & Planning, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZT, UK
the directions being taken by MSP as a whole as experience is gained. It could also contribute to efforts to make MSP practice more responsive to its setting (Jay 2012), if indeed evidence emerges of MSP progressing in this sense. A study of this kind could be set in the well-establis
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