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The concept of marine spatial planning (MSP) is converging with the worldwide momentum towards more sustainable behaviours. For example, the United NationsSustainable Development Goal 14 (“Life Below Water”) has principles...

The EU Maritime Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD) requires the member states (MS) to pursue Blue Growth while ensuring good environmental status (GES) of sea areas. An ecosystem-based approach (EBA) should...

MSP has been promoted as an integrated marine governance approach to address the management of maritime and coastal activities. While it became commonly implemented for the sustainable development of the...

This paper introduces smart marine ecosystem-based planning (SMEP), a marine spatial planning (MSP) strategy for more participatory and responsive marine governance by leveraging “smart” digital services. SMEP denotes an iterative...

Successful marine management needs planners and managers who understand and work with the sea’s diversity in space and time. The new reports aim to assist the MSPglobal beneficiary countries in...

The introduction of marine spatial planning (hereafter: MSP) for Croatia is essential, considering the coastline length and the increasing usurpation of coastal and marine space. MSP is more than a...

The   Intergovernmental   Oceanographic   Commission   of   the   United   Nations   Educational,   Scientific   and   Cultural   Organization   (IOC-UNESCO)   has   worked   for   more   than   15  years  to  promote  a  balance  between  the  sustainable  use  and...

The production of energy from waves is gaining attention. In its expansion strategy, technical, environmental and socioeconomic aspects should be taken into account to identify suitable areas for development of...

The production of energy from waves is gaining attention. In its expansion strategy, technical, environmental and socioeconomic aspects should be taken into account to identify suitable areas for development of...

Contracting Parties of the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (the ‘OSPAR Convention’) have agreed to establish an effective network of marine protected areas...

In the past three decades scientists have been equipping free-living seabirds with bio-logging devices to provide information about their behaviour in unprecedented detail. However, more recently the miniaturisation of tracking...

The seascape of the North Sea has always been dynamic; it is the sea that is used by shipping and fishing nations for centuries. It is a rather shallow sea...