MSP – MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING

MSP – MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING
CEJUDO Oscar
MILLA I FIGUERAS David
RIGHETTO Valentina
ZAPPALA’ Armando
ZORDAN Mirna

Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a public
process of analyzing and allocating the
spatial and temporal distribution of human
activities in marine areas to achieve
ecological, economic, and social objectives
that are usually specified through a
political process.
DEFINITION

The development of MSP requires two types of
authority:
(1) Authority to plan for MSP;
(2) Authority to implement MSP.
TASK 1
ESTABLISHING AUTHORITY

When defining the boundaries for your area,
it is important to recognize two different
types:
(1) boundaries for management;
(2) boundaries for analysis.
TASK 2
DEFINING MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING BOUNDARIES

PONTA DELGADA PORT
VILA FRANCA DO CAMPO PORT
12 MILES SUD

Depending on their interests, their ways of
perceiving problems and opportunities
concerning the MSP area and its resources,
there are often many different
stakeholders; Individuals, groups or
organizations that should be considered for
involvement in MSP.
TASK 3
IDENTIFYING STAKEHOLDERS TO INVOLVE IN MSP

PRINCIPLE:
A principle is a basic or essential quality
or element determining the intrinsic nature
or characteristic behavior of MSP.
GOAL:
A goal is a statement of general direction
or intent. They are high-level statements of
the desired outcome that you hope to
achieve.
OBJECTIVE:
An objective is a statement of desired
outcomes or observable behavioral changes
that represent the achievement of a goal.
TASK 4
DEFINYING PRINCIPLES, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

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PRECAUTIONARY
This principle suggests that if a
decision could cause severe or
irreversible harm to society or the
environment, in the absence of a
scientific consensus that harm would not
ensue, the burden of proof falls on those
who advocate taking the action.
INTEGRATION
ECOSYSTEM
INTEGRITY
Working in sectoral and institutional
compartments or “silos” is often an
efficient way to manage, but it creates
significant costs of non-coordination
that should be identified and addressed.
MSP can play a critical role in
facilitating coherence and integration.
Integration among levels of government
can help create complementary and
mutually reinforcing decisions and
actions.
The principle implies a primary focus on
maintaining ecosystem structure and
functioning within a MSP area. It
includes the recognition that ecosystems
are dynamic, changing and sometimes
poorly understood (therefore requiring
precautionary decision-making).
PRINCIPLES

Planning protected areas as vulnerables
resources of a marine sensible bioma.
GOALS

PROMOTION
Protection of the
necessary conditions
for the maintenance of
protected species.
Management of tourist activities
to mantain the preservation of
the ecosystem.
Provide information to users by
the submitting authority.
SUSTAINABILITY
IDENTIFICATION
Zoning of the area.
Create an organization
to manage the internal
waters.
Promote
and
education.
communication
environmental
Give access to
renewable energy and
resources increasing.
Research and studies on
ecosystem services of
the area.
Zoning into 6 typologies.
Management and research of new
ways to preserve and improve the
natural heritage.
Spread informations in order to
understand and respect the
rules.
Placement of devices which use
wave energy (PDL port Vila
Franca port: 40-100 m.)
Facilitate the access to
information.
Structured collection of
information.
Sustaing economy policy of new
project to search for missing or
not updated data.
Analysis and integration of
natural macro-area
OBJECTIVES, STRATEGIES, ACTIONS

Areas are “ecologically or biologically
important” because of the higher potential
for, or more lasting consequences of, harm
at that location and the greater potential
for long-term benefits obtained by effective
management.
TASK 5
MAPPING IMPORTANT BIOLOGICAL ECOLOGICAL AREAS

PHYSETER MACROCEPHALUS

BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS

PHYSETER CATODON

TURSIUPS TRUNCATUS

PHOCOENA PHOCOENA

DELPHINUS DELPHIS

ORCA ORCINUS

CARETTA CARETTA

PROTECTED SPECIES

COMMERCIAL SPECIES

TASK 6
MAPPING EXISTING AREAS OF HUMAN ACTIVITIES

TODAY

CONFLICTS:
two major types of conflict:
• Conflicts among human uses (user-user
conflicts);
• Conflicts between human uses and the
marine environment (user-environment
conflicts).
TASK 7
IDENTIFYING SPATIAL CONFLICTS COMPATIBILITIES

TASK 9
MAPPING FUTURE DEMANDS FOR OCEAN SPACE
IDENTIFYING ALTERNATIVE SPATIAL SCENARIO

PROPOSAL

INTERNAL WATER

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