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.
- Name of organisation
- Coordination of Maritime Spatial Planning in Finland / Regional Council of Southwest Finland
- Type of organisation
- Regional authority
- Type of action proposed
- Citizen engagement, citizens-science, youth-led initiatives, communities of practice, ocean and water literacy, outreach, awareness raising and participatory approaches
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Ocean and waters knowledge system
- List of Partners
Regional Council of Kymenlaakso; Helsinki-Uusimaa Regional Council; Regional Council of Satakunta; Regional Council of Ostrobothnia; Regional Council of Central Ostrobothnia; Council of Oulu Region; Regional Council of Lapland
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 720000
- Basin coverage
- Baltic/North Sea
- Website link
- mari.pohja-mykra@varsinais-suomi.fi
- Country
- Finland