Regional peer-to-peer learning workshop on marine spatial planning in the Pacific.

Abstract

As countries across the Pacific grow concerned about the dwindling of,and damage to,resources in the world’s oceans, there is an effort to develop plans to sustainably integrate human use and marine conservation. Marine spatial planning (MSP) is a practical way of organising the human use of marine areas to balance the demands of human activities with the need to protect the health of the ecosystems on which those activities depend.