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T1 Marine Spatial Planning: a Step-by-Step Approach Toward Ecosystem-Based Management
A1 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
A1 Thailand, 
A1 Prince of Songkla University, 
A2 Ehler, Charles
A2 Douvere, Fanny
K1 ecosystem-based management
YR 2009
FD 2009
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44339
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/44339
NO This document presents a step-by-step guide to marine spatial planning designed to operationalize ecosystem-based management in national and local seas. Developed from a UNESCO IOC/MAB manual and supported by COBSEA with funding from SIDA, it clarifies MSP’s rationale, scope, and terminology, outlines intended users, and explains how to use the guide without duplicating technical GIS or monitoring manuals. It defines MSP as a public process to allocate human activities in marine space and time, highlights conflicts among uses and between uses and the environment, and articulates expected benefits and outcomes. The core provides a ten-step cycle: establishing need and authority, securing finance, pre-planning, stakeholder participation, assessments of current and future conditions, plan preparation and approval, implementation and enforcement, monitoring and evaluation, and adaptive revision.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026