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- Title
The social and political realities of marine spatial planning: some land-based reflections.
- Authors
Kidd, Sue; Shaw, Dave
- Abstract
This paper highlights the value for marine spatial planning (MSP) of engaging with terrestrial planning theory and practice. It argues that the traditions of reflection, critique, and debate that are a feature of land-based planning can inform the development of richer theoretical underpinnings of MSP as well as MSP practice. The case is illustrated by tempering the view that MSP can be a rational planning process that can follow universal principles and steps by presenting an alternative perspective that sees MSP as a social and political process that is highly differentiated and place-specific. This perspective is discussed with reference to four examples. First, the paper considers why history, culture, and administrative context lead to significant differences in how planning systems are organized. Second, it highlights that planning systems and processes tend to be in constant flux as they respond to changing social and political viewpoints. Third, it discusses why the integration ambitions which are central to “spatial” planning require detailed engagement with locally specific social and political circumstances. Fourth, it focuses on the political and social nature of plan implementation and how different implementation contexts need to inform the design of planning processes and the style of plans produced.
- Subjects
OCEAN zoning; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; MARINE resource management; OCEANOGRAPHY; MARINE sciences
- Publication
ICES Journal of Marine Science / Journal du Conseil, 2014, Vol 71, Issue 7, p1535
- ISSN
1054-3139
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icesjms/fsu006