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Welcome to the home page of the UNESCO initiative on marine spatial planning.
The purpose of this initiative is to help countries operationalize ecosystem-based management by finding space for biodiversity conservation and sustainable economic development in marine environments. One way to do this is through marine spatial planning. Our work focusses on moving marine spatial planning beyond the conceptual level by:
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What is marine spatial planning?
Marine spatial planning 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 have been specified through a political process.
Who is making this work possible?
This current work is made possible primarily through grants from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Other contributors to this initiative are WWF International, the Belgian Science Policy Office and the Flemish Government (Belgium).
A list of contributors to the 2006 Workshop on marine spatial planning is available on the sponsors page of this website.
Last updated: 28 January 2010
