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Coastal and marine spatial planning: a policy waiting to happen

Coastal and marine spatial planning: a policy waiting to happen Coastal and marine spatial planning: a policy waiting to happen G. CARLETON RAYÃ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123, USA One could hardly argue that current policies for ocean governance are not a mess, which, if not squarely and courageously addressed, will result in a global cesspool dominated by pollution, jelly animals, and microbes. The urgent challenge to recognize is that ocean conservation and management are destined to become fatally flawed if they have to continue to operate outside the natural limits of ecological organization and function, which is exactly what many, if not most, of our conservation and management operations are forced by social and political expectations to do. Recognizing the urgent reality of getting the human/oceanuse house in order, coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) has become one of the nine priority objectives of the US Ocean Policy Task Force initiated by President Obama last year (OPTF, 2009). The Interim Report proposes a comprehensive, adaptive, integrated, ecosystem-based, and transparent spatial planning process, based on sound science, to direct current and anticipated uses of coastal and ocean areas. It intends to identify areas most suitable for various types or classes of activities in http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems Wiley

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Coastal and marine spatial planning: a policy waiting to happen G. CARLETON RAYÃ Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4123, USA One could hardly argue that current policies for ocean governance are not a mess, which, if not squarely and courageously addressed, will result in a global cesspool dominated by pollution, jelly animals, and microbes. The urgent challenge to recognize is that ocean conservation and management are destined to become fatally flawed if they have to continue to operate outside the natural limits of ecological organization and function, which is exactly what many, if not most, of our conservation and management operations are forced by social and political expectations to do. Recognizing the urgent reality of getting the human/oceanuse house in order, coastal and marine spatial planning (CMSP) has become one of the nine priority objectives of the US Ocean Policy Task Force initiated by President Obama last year (OPTF, 2009). The Interim Report proposes a comprehensive, adaptive, integrated, ecosystem-based, and transparent spatial planning process, based on sound science, to direct current and anticipated uses of coastal and ocean areas. It intends to identify areas most suitable for various types or classes of activities in

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Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems – Wiley

Published: Jun 1, 2010

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