The new mode of marine planning in the UK: Aspirations and challenges |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Marine Science and Technology, Newcastle University, NE17RU UK;2. School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University, NE17RU UK;1. Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth, Buckingham Building, Lion Terrace, Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, United Kingdom;2. Department of Geography, University of Victoria, PO Box 3060, STN CSC, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3R4;1. Director of Projects, Sutton Harbour Holdings PLC, Tin Quay House, North Quay, Sutton Harbour, Plymouth PL4 0RA, UK;2. School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Science, Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, UK;1. Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK;2. Truman Bodden Law School, Cayman Islands;3. Marine Conservation Consultant (retired) Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK;1. College of Policy Science, Ritsumeikan University, 2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki 567-8570, Osaka, Japan;2. Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan;1. University Iuav of Venice, Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environment, S. Croce 1957, Venice, 30135 Italy;2. University of Seville, Department of Human Geography, María de Padilla, s/n, Seville, 41004 Spain |
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| Abstract: | Since 2009, there has been a shift in UK marine governance with the Marine and Coastal Access Act in which a core mechanism is marine planning, designed to replace a fragmented, ad hoc, and bureaucratic process of marine management with a strategic, integrated, and centralised system. This shift has been justified by the UK government as a more efficient procedure for delivering sustainable development (SD), which is the overarching objective of UK environmental policy. This article, which is based on data from key informant interviews and secondary sources, analyses the shift to understand its aspirations and the challenges facing it. The issues focused on include its holistic approach; its centralising tendencies; its streamlining processes; and its implicit commitment to renewable energy. In these four issues there are tensions between aspirations and challenges, and the conclusion is that the success of the new mode of marine governance depends on satisfactorily resolving these tensions. |
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| Keywords: | UK marine governance Marine spatial planning (MSP) Marine management organisation (MMO) holism centralisation offshore wind farm policy |
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