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Synthesis Map of Socio-Economic issues at sea in French Guiana

MSP-OR Advancing Maritime Spatial Planning in Outermost Regions

To facilitate MSP process and public debate in French Guiana, the MSP-OR project elaborated two maps compiling socio--cultural and environmental stakes and issues inherent to the French Guiana Sea basin...

  • Aug 2022

D9 Underwater noise studies in the Gulf of Lions region

MSP-MED

Sound is a dominant feature of the underwater marine environment because of natural (biological sources, underwater earthquakes, wind) and human-made (anthropogenic) sound sources. Underwater noise anthropogenic sources are commonly related...

  • Aug 2022

Enabling conditions for effective marine spatial planning

Marine Policy, Volume 143

As marine spatial planning (MSP) continues to gain global prominence as an approach to ocean governance, planners and other stakeholders are eager to evaluate its social and ecological outcomes and...

  • Aug 2022