MSP-EGD

The MSP-EGD aims to enhance adaptive and collaborative Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) to enable European Green Deal (EGD). Finnish national MSP promotes the sustainable development and growth of different uses of the marine area, the sustainable use of natural resources, and the achievement of good status of the marine environment. The MSP seeks to foster EGD objectives, i.e., prevention of biodiversity loss, climate neutrality, sustainable marine food production, zero pollution, and circular economy. There is an overarching principle of EGD to leave no one and no place behind. Through the collaborative nature of MSP, the maritime sectors’ different societal and community values and interactions with marine nature are brought to the fore.

Co-creation of knowledge and evolved systemic thinking among maritime sectors, but also among maritime spatial planners, is a key to sustainable development in our marine and coastal areas. A comprehensive understanding of human-environment interactions wields an active role in achieving marine environment status targets. Environmental stewardship is possible to reach through collaborative MSP.

The MSP-EGD project fills in the knowledge gaps of MSP’s role as an enabler of EGD, supports the coherence between MSP and MSFD /WFD, promotes strategic-level marine safety, and develops established MSP practices that are adaptive and collaborative.