Acronym TRANSMASP
Category
Fisheries
Title Transboundary Maritime Spatial Planning Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
PEOPLE – Marie Curie Actions
Specific Programme (FP7)
People
Funding source European Coordinator Betty Queffelec Coordinator email betty.queffelec@gmail.com
Coordinator institution
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium)
Institutions involved
NA
Start year 2010 End year 2012 Funding (€) € 151,900 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/252774 Summary From a public law and policy perspective, the TransMasp (Trans-boundary Maritime Spatial Planning) project will explore the impact of legal and natural boundaries in the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning which is a tool to integrate sea use management. Despite a strong request from International and European Union policy documents, transboundary aspects of Maritime Spatial Planning as well as its articulation with Land Spatial Planning are not yet scientifically handled. TransMasp will analyse a case study: the French-Belgian marine and coastal zone boundary (the Pas-de-Calais French region and the Belgian coastline). In this area, both countries share the same sandbanks, its rich biodiversity and substantial human activities (maritime transport, tourism, fisheries...).The case site is divided by the sea-land natural boundary and the French-Belgian legal boundary. Analysing it, TransMasp will investigate opportunities and constraints to develop a common Maritime Spatial Planning for a particular trans-boundary area. It will test the potential of Maritime Spatial Planning to ensure an effective ecosystem management across boundaries. Theoretically, this research work will further contribute to the understanding and development of the concept of Maritime Spatial Planning, its relation with Integrated Coastal Zone Management and Ecosystem Approach. It will combine those three theories in order to confront a fundamental question: how to keep sea use management coherent in a trans-boundary context?
Keywords
Spatial planning;
Fisheries management;
Integrated management;
Aquaculture management;
Marine Region
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Eastern English Channel (27.VIId)
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Southern North Sea (27.IVc)
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Marine Region Map
