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Flourishing Communities: Productive Seas Towards a shared understanding for managing Scotland’s coasts and seas Workshop 1: Marine Spatial Planning and Blue Growth
Project Summary
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Project overview The Marine Scotland Act (2010) and preparation of Scotland’s first National Marine Plan (2015) were key steps in anticipating the requirements of the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) (2014/89/EU). A ‘tiered’ approach, comprising the UK Marine Policy Statement, the Scottish National Marine Plan and emerging Regional Marine Plans, forms the basis of a new governance regime in which to advance the Scottish Government’s strategic purpose of creating a more successful country, with opportunities for all to flourish through increasing sustainable economic growth. Scotland’s National Marine Plan covers Scotland’s inshore and offshore waters and provides the planning context for blue growth. What is meant by “blue growth”, however, and how existing land‐ and coastal‐based planning and management regimes will be integrated to better manage and develop Scotland’s marine and coastal environments are less well understood. Blue growth includes activities such as offshore renewables, aquaculture and coastal tourism and is part and parcel of a maritime contribution to achieving the goals of the Europe 2020 strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Given the diversity of potential marine activities, it is to be anticipated that there will likely be competing views and necessary trade‐offs with respect to the sustainable use of the marine environment. To date, weak regulation of the marine environment has led to environmental degradation and conflicts between human activities. Different sectors have tended to respond reactively, in isolation from each other, and with little strategic coordination. In Scotland, the intention is that Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) will interact with other planning and consenting processes within, and adjoining, Scotland’s extensive marine area. Inevitably, this objective of working across the land‐sea divide will require engaging different sectors, stakeholders and communities. The objective of this project is thus to facilitate the cross‐fertilisation of knowledge, understanding and skills around the blue growth agenda; to support the necessary interactions; and to enable the general public to participate in marine planning. The project team brings together a range of interdisciplinary interests, spanning land, coastal and marine expertise and has a shared aim of exchanging and synthesising knowledge and understanding, and drawing lessons from international experience. Our principal aim is to enhance civil and stakeholder awareness, understanding and engagement in marine planning. Three knowledge mobilisation workshops will provide the context for learning from existing land‐based governance structures (e.g. terrestrial planning has existed in the UK since 1947, and Coastal Planning Partnerships since 1997) and to gather relevant international trans‐
boundary insights. Our aim is to create the context for reflecting on how best to support coastal and marine communities to become actively involved in shaping flourishing futures and maintaining productive seas. Page 1 Workshop1:MarineSpatialPlanning&BlueGrowth November10
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Each workshop is designed to bring together land, coastal and marine scientific, sectoral and lay interests from a range of disciplinary, business, government and non‐government perspectives. Workshop 1 will explore the concepts of MSP and blue growth. The starting point is to learn from terrestrial planning. Workshop 2 (Aberdeen, 10th December) will consider what adopting an ecosystems approach means in practice. Workshop 3 will address what securing Good Environmental Status of Scotland’s marine waters involves. Working with PAS, our objective is to co‐produce seven layperson’s guides to support more meaningful public participation, policy‐making and decision‐taking. We have identified four key concepts and three tools / approaches. Layperson’s guide ‐ core concepts
Layperson’s guide – tools / approaches
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5) Stated Preference 6) Social Wellbeing 7) Sectoral Interactions Matrix Marine Spatial Planning Blue Growth Ecosystems Approach Good Environmental Status From Land to Sea: Overview of the Project Team’s Expertise Marine Spatial Planning
Economics (Bergmann)
Scottish Environment LINK
River Basin Management / Integrated Coastal Zone Management
Terrestrial Planning /Inland and out to 12 nautical miles
Planing and property law (Altermann)
Oceanography (Reeves)
Geography ‐ coastal management / ICZM (Stojanovic)
Marine science (Greenhill / Brooker)
Aquaculture (Peel)
Scottish Environment LINK
Offshore renwables (Mitchell)
Trans‐boundary maritime law (Soininen)
MASTS
Scottish Environment LINK
Sustainability
Integration
Good Governance & Better Regulation
Community (interested, dis‐interested, uninterested, uninformed?) Participation
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PAS Planning law (Slater)
Civil engineering (Johnson) Marine Spatial Planning / Out to 200 nautical miles
Land use planning, public participation (Peel)
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What we want to achieve with this Project and why Our starting point is that blue growth is a Scottish Government priority and that MSP has the capacity to explain, manage and reconcile the inevitable trade‐offs involved in pursuing this agenda. A legal framework is insufficient on its own to protect the marine environment or to secure blue growth, however, since implementation and enforcement of marine planning decisions require community buy‐in. To date, MSP has received relatively little public attention. Meaningful awareness‐raising, information‐sharing and knowledge exchange are pre‐requisites for public participation and implementation of this agenda as interest now turns to the capacity and ability of regions to deliver regional plans. To date, marine and coastal issues have tended to develop as specialised or sectoral fields of marine or coastal science, whilst terrestrial planning and management have fallen to local planning authorities or coastal partnerships, creating a land‐sea divide in theory and in practice. Diverse interests variously see (economic) opportunities to exploit the marine environment for food, fuel and leisure, for example, whilst other (environmental and social) interests have highlighted sustainability principles that promote the imperative of protecting the marine environment, emphasising different value systems, including the protection of species or valued seascapes. How can we better understand and reconcile these different perspectives? Implementing an ecosystems approach and attaining Good Environmental Status under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) in marine and coastal environments involves developing a shared understanding and common language to be able to talk across marine science, social science and policy communities – and in a way that is meaningful to a lay audience. Through our workshop discussions we want to develop a shared vocabulary. Policy‐making and decision‐taking in this fluid and fast‐moving context is understandably complex since the governance arrangements span different sectors and jurisdictions. Different aspects of marine and coastal management have led to a diverse array of regulatory, consenting and licensing regimes. Scotland, like other EU member states, must find ways to integrate these various regimes (i.e. the Water Framework Directive; local development plans; marine plans). Throughout this project we wish to explore what learning and experience can be taken forward from, say, Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM), and the emerging findings from current research projects. Finally, the Aarhus Convention (1998) establishes a number of rights of the public (individuals and their associations) with regard to the environment, including access to environmental information and public participation in environmental decision‐making. Given the particular challenges of the marine and coastal environment, this project will focus on the nature of the information necessary to support public participation in marine planning. Page 3 Workshop1:MarineSpatialPlanning&BlueGrowth November10
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Seals at Tentsmuir © Tracey Dixon Summary of the Project Objectives Objective 1: To exchange knowledge about the following key concepts as the basis for providing public information: 1)
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Marine Spatial Planning Blue Growth Ecosystems Approach Good Environmental Status Objective 2: To exchange knowledge and critically reflect on three approaches to revealing values, interests and relations around blue growth at the land‐sea interface as the basis for creating appropriate mind‐sets and frameworks for enhancing public participation in marine and coastal environmental decision‐making. The three workshops will explore three different tools: 5) Workshop 1: Stated Preference 6) Workshop 2: 3‐D Social Wellbeing 7) Workshop 3: Sectoral Interactions Matrix Objective 3: To extend marine planning expertise in Scotland and promote new research collaborations through providing an update about on‐going projects and identifying knowledge gaps and potential joint research grant opportunities to assist policy‐makers, practitioners, communities and other end‐users. Page 4 Workshop1:MarineSpatialPlanning&BlueGrowth November10
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Format of the Three Workshops Each workshop follows a similar format: 
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Contextual information and discussion of key concepts (with a Scotland‐focus) Practical and policy framework updates ‐ to take account of Scottish MSP developments Comparative Scottish and international perspectives on coastal and marine governance Research updates in relation to MSP / blue growth projects (e.g. Horizon 2020 or FP7) Practical application of a relevant framework / tool to better inform policy‐making and decision‐taking in coastal and marine environments Prioritisation of key issues Development and feedback on the layperson’s guides Three Guiding Questions To help focus the three workshops, the following questions will be used to help shape the layperson’s guides. Guiding Questions What is, and how can we provide, relevant and meaningful information for the general public? How can we develop appropriate mind‐sets and ideas for enhancing public participation in marine and coastal environmental decision‐making? What resources do we need to put MSP into practice? Workshop One: Topics and Tool Blue Growth Marine Spatial Planning Stated Preference Rig, Dundee © Tracey Dixon Further details about the project and the whole project team are available here: http://www.scottishinsight.ac.uk/Programmes/Programmes20152016/FlourishingCommuni
tiesandProductiveSeas.aspx Questions can be addressed to Deborah Peel (University of Dundee): [email protected] Page 5