The Marine Planning website helps marine and coastal decision-makers to navigate real-world challenges and reach effective solutions.
Solutions for Multi-Objective Marine Planning
Management, planning, and conservation in marine and coastal environments are changing rapidly to address increasingly complex challenges. New approaches are emerging based on practical experience and scientific findings.
Balancing multiple objectives across sectors such as energy, fisheries, hazard mitigation, transportation, tourism, and conservation is among the most important challenges presently facing marine planners and managers. To address this challenge, many practitioners are grappling with implementation of ecosystem-based management (EBM) and marine spatial planning (MSP).
The Marine Planning website provides support for multi-objective planning through EBM and MSP.
Overview
These background pages describe the need for multi-objective planning for oceans and coasts, and introduce frameworks for planning across management sectors.
Decision Support
The processes of ecosystem-based management and marine spatial planning can address multiple objectives. These processes can be facilitated with interactive decision support systems.
Case Studies
Here are four real-world examples of multi-objective planning that address energy development, fisheries, coastal hazards, and biodiversity conservation.
Resources
This section compiles selected publications and websites on multi-objective marine planning to supplement those referenced elsewhere on this website.
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