Report on the COBSEA Regional Train-the-Trainer Course on Spatial Planning in the Coastal and Marine Zone of the EAS Region

From May 14 to 18, 2012, 34 participants from six East Asian countries met in Phuket Thailand to participate in the Sida-sponsored, UNEP/COBSEA Regional Train-the-Trainer Course on Spatial Planning in the Coastal and Marine Zone in the EAS Region. The five-day training course provided instruction by international experts to future national trainers on how to integrate emerging issues such as adaptation to climate change and sea-level rise, and modern management approaches including ecosystem-based management, disaster-risk reduction and marine spatial planning, into national and sub-national spatial planning processes in the coastal and marine environments.